Definition of "polisman"

The march turned out not te be a real march at all on account of the fact that as soon as we tried te move aff from the Waterside station, all two thousand of us, we foun' our way blocked be a cordon of polismen lookin' wile fierce.

2009, Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard, Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland, page 83

They wint again polismen, mostly. Mebbe that's because polismen's th' nearest things to kings they cud find.

2020, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, page 97

Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188