the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world
a series of changes to British law in 1995, officially called the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which changed the law relating to a person's right to silence (= their right to say nothing when the police ARREST them, or when they are on trial in a court of law ), and also made the laws against SQUAT ting (= living in a building without the owner's permission) and TRESPASS ing (= being on someone's land without their permission) much stricter.