Law enforcement jargon:
Law enforcement jargon refers to the range of codes, abbreviations, acronyms etc used by law enforcers in order to provide quick and useful bits of information (regarding information about people, the situation, places, times etc.)
In the United Kingdom, law enforcers use a range of different initialisms in order to communicate in a concise way, including:
- DIP - Drunk in public
- B&E - Breaking and entering
- DIC - Drunk in charge
- RTC - Road traffic collision
- GBH - Grievous bodily harm
- HOLMES - Home office large and major enquiry system
- ACPO - Association of chief police officers
- SOCO - Scenes of crime officer
- HOCR - Home officing counting rules
- ANPR - Automatic number plate recognition
- Code 99 - Tea break
- MISPER - Missing person
- WOFF: Write off
- WINQ - Warrant enquiry
- NOK - Next of kin
Big red key - a type of battery ram
Paranoid woman syndrome - When an incident such as harrassment has been mistaken as a result of reading too much into the behaviour of other's.
Such Jargon is used in police procedurals as well as some TV shows eg. CSI.
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