Synonyms for patrol
pəˈtroʊlpa·trol

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1. patrolnoun

   a detachment used for security or reconnaissance

2. patrolnoun

   the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes

3. patrolverb

   a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security

4. patrol, policeverb

   maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol

   Synonyms:
   police

Matched Categories

1. • Detachment
   • Guard
   • Protection

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1. List of paraphrases for "patrol":

   patrolling, patrols, periodic, squad, rotating, periodical, gunboat, beat

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1. United States:

   One report reviewed over 800 complaints of alleged physical, verbal, or sexual abuse lodged against Border Patrol agents between 2009 and 2012 ; in 97 % of the complaints resulting in formal decisions, no action was taken.

2. Sheriff Long:

   Deputies will have candy in their patrol vehicles and will interact with the children until the neighborhood is clear of trick-or-treaters to ensure the safety of our children on Halloween night.

3. James Lankford:

   Our border patrol agents are doing their best to secure our border, but they need additional barriers, roads, and technology to help keep us safe, instead, President Biden is paying professional construction contractors to babysit metal to the tune of $2 billion and counting, while at the same time we’ve seen a 20-year high number of migrants crossing our open border.

4. Omar Zamora:

   They’re actually pretty bare and about as high as Border Patrol agents get the vehicle, because Border Patrol agents do go off road. in the 18 years that I’ve been in Border Patrol in Laredo, we’ve seen UPS, FedEx trucks, Time Warner trucks, any kind of clones. Any business you can think of. The smugglers are trying to clone it to avoid law enforcement detection.

5. David Lapan:

   If we've created a barrier to drugs coming a certain way, they're going to find another way to do it, so just because drugs are down in border patrol doesn't mean that we've gotten control or that it has stopped.