Uniformed Services

Uniformed services are bodies of people in the employ of a state that wear a uniform.

Typically the uniformed services of a state include:

  • the country's armed services
  • the police
  • the fire and rescue service
  • paramedics

In some countries the following may also be included:

  • tax or customs officials
  • immigration service officers
  • the coast guard
  • Lighthouse Authority personnel

Famous quotes containing the word services:

    “Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
    —Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)