Officer

Officer 
To see an officer in your dream represents your need to belong and to fit in to a larger group. Alternatively, the officer indicates your need for discipline and direction in your life. You may be seeking a higher plane for guidance.

To dream that you are an officer represents your leadership skills and your authoritative presence.

To dream the officer is forced departure, unquestioning obedience and a strong defense high patron. The young officer - to the chagrin of love, old - unfortunately, that can damage your career.

Police 
To see the police in your dream symbolizes structure, rules, power, authority and control. You need to put an end to your reckless behavior or else the law will catch up to you. Alternatively, the dream refers to failure in honoring your obligation and commitments. Dreaming that you are running from the police means that you are refusing to face the consequences of your actions. It also indicates that you are rejecting certain rules.

To dream that you are arrested by the police suggests that you feel sexually or emotionally restrained because of guilt. The dream may also be a metaphor that you are feeling apprehensive about something.

To dream that you are a police officer represents your own sense of morality and conscience. The dream may serve to guide you down a straight path. If you have recurring dreams that you are a police officer, then it may mean that your past actions are leaving you with guilt. Consider your behavior and actions as the cop. If your dream that you are in pursuit of a suspect, then it indicates that your naughty and devious side is in conflict with your moral standards. To dream that you are an undercover cop implies that you are going against your conscience.

To dream that you are having difficulties contacting the police,�suggests that you have yet to acknowledge your own authoritativeness in a situation. You need to take control and be in command of the direction of your life.

Police
To dream of police officers represents discipline, intervention, and enforcement of behavior. Rules or structure. Feelings about changes being forced on you or others. A need to restore sanity, rationality, or justice to a situation. A need for fairness, order, or following the rules to be respected.

Positively, police may reflect the use of power or authority to force changes on people who are misbehaving. Keeping "assholes" in line. Beating up bullies or threatening people who are abusive to others. Choosing to make difficult changes that you know are in your best interest. Confronting lairs, rule breakers, or dodgy people. Feelings of security. Calming a situation down or fixing a situation that is a total mess. Intervening in a wrongdoing. Choosing to confront addiction. Providing help in a crisis. Keeping something sensitive or beautiful off-limits from bad people. Preventing recklessness. Calming a situation down.

Negatively, dreaming of police may represent your fear of change. It may also reflect feelings about yourself or others being too authoritarian or controlling. Forcing change on people when they don't like it or don't want it. Abusing authority, power, or your ability to protect people. Feeling like you are facing bad karma. Feeling you have no choice in a matter that requires change. Knowing you are misbehaving and not liking having to change. Problems with resisting change. Experiencing situations where there is a sense of "lawlessness" or arrogant abuse. Resisting confronting addictions. Avoiding punishment or facing consequences. Fearing someone else will get away with wronging you. Feeling that you were caught breaking rules.

Spiritually, police in a dream may reflect feelings about you life being controlled or guided by God. Feeling that God is forcing your to change or intervening to punish bad people with a life lesson.

If you are running away from police this symbolizes your attempts to resist changing habits or the way you think. You may also be afraid of change.

Being arrested in a dream symbolizes change that is being forced upon you, or some aspect of your personality.

To dream of police cars represents your ability to make decisions and guide yourself around in life that is focused on being disciplined or correcting problems.

Example: A woman dreamed of police officer raping her. In waking life she felt scared being alone while separated from her abusive husband and kept sleeping with men that ended up using her.

Example 2: A young man dreamed of running away from the police. In waking life he was trying very hard to avoid having to give up drugs when people he knew were trying to intervene in his life.

Example 3: A man dreamed seeing police arrested people. In waking life his boss at work as firing people for abusing privileges in the work place.

Example 4: A woman dreamed of screaming for the police to help her. In waking life she was frustrated with being unable to stop another woman from talking about her negatively behind her back.