police action

It was a police action, not an act of war.

The social service workers are the cover for police action.

Here, at last, is someone who knows the difference between a police action and a war.

They get off, so police action is mostly a lost cause.

"They think they're going in for a police action and it turns out to be war."

"He had not done anything that required any police action."

Officials of the two companies said they supported the police action.

Since 1979 strikes have often been met by police action.

Within five days the "police action", actually a military operation, was all but over.

Police action is a term for the use of military forces without declaring war.