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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
policing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
community policing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
routine
▪ All these sorts of considerations are also aspects of routine policing.
▪ What in Northern Ireland does routine policing consist of?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In particular, there have been several complaints of heavy-handed policing of demonstrations, of which three examples may be given here.
▪ It was a march against racist policing and racist violence.
▪ Other co-operation agreements were signed, covering economics, trade, transport, technical affairs, culture and drug policing.
▪ Routine policing as a set of tasks is therefore accomplished as a process of routine.
▪ That kind of policing requires good police intelligence and first-class training.
▪ The field man has to suffer less of the unpleasantness involved in policing.
▪ The Labour party's draft document, which it did not dare to publish, refers to London policing functions.
▪ This is designed to ensure that the policing of the demonstration can be properly planned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Policing

Police \Po*lice"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Policed; p. pr. & vb. n. Policing.]

  1. To keep in order by police.

  2. (Mil.) To make clean; as, to police a camp.

Wiktionary
policing

vb. (present participle of police English)

Usage examples of "policing".

Each one of the Four Powers took administrative responsibility for the policing of the Inner City for a month at a time.

She in turn put your request to her opposite number in the canton government and from there it gradually trickled down to the officer responsible for policing Arosa.

It was, Duvall thought, a long time since the DC had done policing without the politics.

Jesus Christ, get yourself a copy of Policing for Idiots before you go out on any more calls.