'Police' in the Bible

Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.

For if anyone has a cause at law against you, and you are going with him before the ruler, make an attempt, on the way, to come to an agreement with him, for if you do not, he may take you before the judge and the judge will give you up to the police, and they will put you in prison.

So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms.

Then the band and the chief captain and the police took Jesus and put cords round him.

Now the servants and the police had made a fire of coals because it was cold; they were warming themselves in front of it and Peter was there with them, warming himself.

When he said this, one of the police by his side gave him a blow with his open hand, saying, Do you give such an answer to the high priest?

So when the chief priests and the police saw him they gave a loud cry, To the cross! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and put him on the cross: I see no crime in him.

Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

But when it was day, the authorities sent the police, saying, Let these men go.

And the police gave an account of these words to the authorities, and they were full of fear on hearing that they were Romans;