"While their official role is law enforcer, tax collector and advertiser, license plates moonlight as reporters, artists, sociologists, historians, psychologists and statisticians, " he says in the opening of his book, A Moving History.

FORBES: Collecting

The Supreme Court in Delhi, which so mistrusts the state that it has become a maker and enforcer of law as well as its ultimate interpreter, now monitors such transfers.

ECONOMIST: Poverty in India

It has been rigorous in the development of antitrust theory and an energetic enforcer of the law.

ECONOMIST: Competition policy

"The U.S. military ... still mainly sees the police as an auxiliary security force rather than an enforcer of the law, " the International Crisis Group concluded in a report posted Thursday on its Web site.

CNN: Report: Afghan police should focus on crime, not militants