Editing Peace (section)

===Police===

{{Main|Police}}
	
The obligation of the state to provide for domestic peace within its borders is usually charged to the police and other general domestic policing activities. The police are a constituted body of [[Law enforcement officer|persons]] empowered by a [[State (polity)|state]] to [[law enforcement|enforce the law]], to protect the lives, liberty and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.<ref>{{cite web|title =The Role and Responsibilities of the Police|publisher =Policy Studies Institute|url =http://www.psi.org.uk/publications/archivepdfs/Role%20pol/INDPOL-0.P.pdf|access-date =22 December 2009|page =xii|archive-date =29 August 2017|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20170829011701/http://www.psi.org.uk/publications/archivepdfs/Role%20pol/INDPOL-0.P.pdf|url-status =usurped}}</ref> Their powers include the power of arrest and the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with the police forces of a [[sovereign state]] that are authorized to exercise the [[Police power (United States constitutional law)|police power]] of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from the military and other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, [[gendarmerie]] are military units charged with civil policing.<ref name="Lioe">{{cite book | first = Kim Eduard| last = Lioe| title = Armed Forces in Law Enforcement Operations? – The German and European Perspective|edition= 1989|pages= 52–57 | publisher = Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg| isbn= 978-3-642-15433-1| date = 3 December 2010}}</ref> Police forces are usually public sector services, funded through taxes.