Police officer

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Shortcode: :cop:
Shortcode: :police_officer:
Unicode: U+1F46E
HTML: 👮
CSS: \1F46E
JavaScript: "\u{1F46E}"
URL: %F0%9F%91%AE

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What 👮 means

A police officer in a uniform cap, standing for the police, law enforcement and getting caught. It also stars in playful “you're under arrest” jokes.

People use it in news about crime and safety, and for being pulled over. In jokes it calls the fashion police or the grammar police, or arrests someone for being too cute. Pair with 🚨 for alarm and 🚔 for a chase.

Facts

Police officer 👮 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cop: or :police_officer:. People also look for it with words like “apprehend”, “arrest”, “citation”, or “cop”.