Ah ok, I see. Maybe I rather have (had) the notion of police as it exists in the UK or some European countries. There was the French "police de proximité" who

Ah ok, I see. Maybe I rather have (had) the notion of police as it exists in the UK or some European countries. There was the French "police de proximité" who acted as friendly allies (it seems it was dismantled in 2003, unfortunately).