stick on

en-verb

stick on (third-person singular simple present sticks someone on, present participle sticking someone on, simple past and past participle stuck someone on)

sticks someone on (present singular third-person)
sticking someone on (participle present)
stuck someone on (participle past)
stuck someone on (past)

[…] took him to the nick, stuck him on, and he spent the night in the flowery.

1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 501:

You can be stuck on for anything from serious misconduct to minor infringements of the police's absurdly draconian and catch-all disciplinary codes, which make it possible for a senior officer with a grudge against a junior to stick him on for almost anything. For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.

1995, Verbatim, volume 22, number 3, page 13:

But because you're under pressure for numbers and it looks good on your report that you done x number of processes, you can't come in and say 'Well, I didn't stick him on because I felt that it was a better result just to tell him off.'

quoted in 2005, Mike McConville, Dan Shepherd, Watching Police, Watching Communities (page 200)

(transitive, UK, law enforcement, slang) To charge (someone) with an offence.


gate fever

(colloquial) The anxious excitement felt by a prisoner whose release is imminent.


gate-happy

en-adj

gate-happy (comparative more gate-happy, superlative most gate-happy)

more gate-happy (comparative)
most gate-happy (superlative)

(colloquial) Excited about one's imminent release from prison.


dawn raid

(law enforcement) An early-morning visit by police or law enforcement with the intention of taking the suspects by surprise.


harman

Harman is a common compound in several foods, plants and beverages. Numerous studies have demonstrated its mutagenic, co-mutagenic and carcinogenic effects; however, the exact mechanism has not been fully identified.

2010, El Gendy MA, El-Kadi AO, Harman induces CYP1A1 enzyme through an aryl hydrocarbon receptor mechanism., Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, page 55

(organic chemistry) An indole alkaloid, 1-methyl-9H-β-carboline (C12H10N2) found in several foods, plants and beverages which is carcinogen. It is a specific, reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A.


door opener

(sales): Compare get one's foot in the door.

The two most common types of door openers used are the "Hale" and the "Detroit".

1947, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education., Regional Firemen Training Schools - Volume 2, page 8:

Within this one tool, you have the same basic feature of the door opener, crowbar, and hatchet.

1985, John A. Carley, Mavis V. Whigham, Fire protection specialist (AFSC 57150), page 24:

Although an old tool, the Detroit door opener still functions well when used correctly and will have devastating effects on today's standard locks and door closures.

1997, Richard A. Fritz, Tools of the Trade: Firefighting Hand Tools and Their Use, page 27:

Any of various devices designed to make opening a door easier.

(firefighting) A crowbar-like tool used by firefighters to quickly force locked doors to open.


whole-time

Whole-time employees with more than two years of service will be entitled to compensation, [...].

1941 November, “Notes and News: Abandoning the Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:

(especially firefighting or business) full-time


PIT maneuver

(law enforcement, automotive) A technique in which a pursuing car bumps the rear fender of a pursued car, causing it to spin out, in order to terminate a car chase.


dog handler

A person trained to handle a dog, especially a police dog or a K-9 unit in the military


GOA

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of gone on arrival. where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived


red notice

Interpol issues red notice for 'fugitive' Anne Sacoolas

Under a red notice, local authorities make the arrests on behalf of the country that requested it. The notices cannot force countries to arrest or extradite suspects, but can put government leaders on the spot and limit suspects' travel.

June 29, 2020, “Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump, asks Interpol to help”, in Al Jazeera:

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol that a person is an international fugitive and should be arrested.


confessing Sam

The first potentially believable confessing Sam, Daniel Voorhees, arrived at police headquarters on the same day as the second note from The Avenger. During an interview with LAPD Consulting Psychiatrist Dr. Paul De River, Voorhess ^([sic]) claimed that he "couldn't stand [keeping such a dark secret] any longer." The police knew that Voorhees was not The Avenger […]

2017, Jon Lewis, Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, page 27:

(Canada, US, law enforcement slang) A person who falsely confesses to a crime.


CPD

“Defendant Officers violated numerous laws and CPD policies during their encounter with Dexter. The initial stop was unlawful and pretextual. Defendant Officers had no reasonable suspicion that Dexter violated any law, and they falsely stated otherwise in official CPD reports,” the suit states.

2024 April 24, Family of Chicago man fatally shot by police files federal civil rights lawsuit against city and tactical officers, CNN:

Chicago Police Department
w:Chicago Police Department

(law enforcement) Initialism of Chicago Police Department.


VLAT

(firefighting, aviation) Acronym of very large airtanker. (a class of waterbomber)


police lives matter

Coined in analogy to black lives matter.

black lives matter
black lives matter#English

(US, politics, law enforcement) A phrase used to counter "black lives matter", rallying people to defend police officers and their use of lethal force in carrying out their duties.


blue lives matter

Coined in analogy to black lives matter; the color blue is frequently used for police uniforms.

police lives matter
police lives matter#English

(US, law enforcement, politics) Synonym of police lives matter


plainclothesperson

en-noun

plainclothesperson (plural plainclothespersons or plainclothespeople)

plainclothespersons (plural)
plainclothespeople (plural)

(rare) A police officer (especially a detective) of any gender who wears civilian clothes when on duty.


police work

The complement will consist of 290 persons, and these cruisers should prove valuable additions to our service, especially in the line of police-work—the peace time duty of most of our ships not assigned for manœuvres.

1899, Carl Schurz, George Brinton McClellan Harvey, George William Curtis, Henry Loomis Nelson, Henry Mills Alden, John Bonner, John Foord, John Kendrick Bangs, Montgomery Schuyler, Norman Hapgood, Richard Harding Davis, Samuel Stillman Conant (editors), Harper's Weekly, page 1090:

Many who are unfamiliar with real police work little realize the extent to which police science has developed.

1927, National Probation Association (U.S.), Annual Report and Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Volume 21, page 243:

All the ordinary developments in telecommunications can be applied to police work.

1951, Anthony K. Martienssen, Crime and the Police, page 96:

White officers were more likely to select skilled or other protective service positions (such as fireman) as a preferred employment at the time they entered police work.

1967, Albert J. Reiss, Donald J. Black, Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in Major Metropolitan Areas: Patterns of Behavior in Police and Citizen Transactions, page 16:

Many puzzling aspects of police work fall into place when one ceases to look at it as primarily concerned with law enforcement and crime control, and only incidentally and and often incongruously concerned with an infinite variety of other matters.

1980, Susan Ehrlich Martin, Breaking and Entering, Policewomen on Patrol, page 81:

As a result, there exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level.

1999, James Vadackumchery, Indian Police and Equal Justice Under Law, page 160:

That's not a bad motto for police work overall, he thought. A vain and arbitrary search for a needle in a haystack, that's exactly what it always seemed to be like.

2012, Håkan Nesser, Münster's Case, An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery:

(law enforcement) Work performed by police; the investigation of criminal activities.


hoseline

A hose used to convey a substance, especially water for firefighting.


pretextual stop

pretextual stop (plural pretextual stops)

(US) The stopping by police of a motor vehicle in the case of a minor infringement of the law, in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity.


LWOP

In two of these studies, LWOP inmates had rates of prison misconduct that were equivalent to parole-eligible inmates.

2008, Matt DeLisi, Peter John Conis, Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy, and Practice, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 244:

(criminal law) Initialism of life (sentence) without (the possibility of) parole.


SLED

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.


have a visual on

en-verb

have a visual on (third-person singular simple present has a visual on, present participle having a visual on, simple past and past participle had a visual on)

has a visual on (present singular third-person)
having a visual on (participle present)
had a visual on (participle past)
had a visual on (past)

“We have a visual on you,” the pilot of Gopher Alpha stated, ...

2012, Robert G. Davis, Ten Short Mysteries, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 102:

“Hey, partner, where the hell's your twenty? I should have a visual on you by now and I' m overdue to begin my rounds.”

2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 157:

“This is Alpha Sky Four. I have a visual on the suspect running east on Hudson Avenue.

2012, Sherard H. Adams, The Prince of Pentium: A Life of a Hustler and a Computer Hacker, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 25:

(transitive, law enforcement and military) see


wildfire-fighter

A firefighter trained in fighting wildfires.


Nampol

(Namibia, law enforcement) The Namibian Police Force.


OMON

From Russian ОМО́Н (OMÓN), Отря́д Ми́лиции Осо́бого Назначе́ния (Otrjád Mílicii Osóbovo Naznačénija, “detachment of special-purpose police”).

Special Purpose Mobile Unit, the riot police in Russia and Belarus.

АМА́П

Special Purpose Mobile Unit, a law enforcement force in Russia and Belarus


judicial police

A type of police structure reporting to the judiciary in some countries.


HVE

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of homegrown violent extremist.


DVE

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of domestic violent extremist.


bent copper

From bent (“not straight, corrupt, dishonest”) + copper (“policeman”), a variant of cop. It could also be a pun taken from a bent copper coin.

Onay remembered that he had placed 40 kilos at the bottom of his wardrobe. That meant approximately three and a half kilos had disappeared during the police raid. Bulent kept quiet but the officers eventually found out and a bent copper was later blamed for the alleged theft.

2007, Graham Johnson, Druglord, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN:

Anticorruption is a double-edged sword. We need to find just enough bent coppers to avoid accusations of a cover-up, but not so many that the public starts to wonder if the police can be trusted.

2016 April 28, “Getting to the Truth”, in Line of Duty, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Gill Biggeloe (Polly Walker), archived from the original on 2021-05-17:

He had always been a bent copper. He had joined the police force with the intention of being a bent copper. In that, he had been eminently successful.

2019, Alan Jacobs, Me? I Kill People, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 298:

(UK, informal, law enforcement) A corrupt police officer.


CHIS

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of covert human intelligence source.


desk sergeant

A woman ran into the police station and told the desk sergeant she had been robbed.

After arriving at the Area A police station, I renewed my protests that as a working reporter with visible police credentials, I should not have been arrested. The desk sergeant insisted that I be booked, however, and I was put into the holding tank, a fifteen-by-fifteen dark and filthy cell, with 49 other people.

1983 December 24, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Bust 70 Anti-Nuke Demonstrators”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 6:

(law enforcement) A sergeant who has an administrative position inside of a police station.


VPD

Police Department
police department#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of Vancouver Police Department.

(Canada) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.

(US) The police service of the city of Vancouver, in the State of Washington, USA.


rubber heels

[…] Going in to do the work of the Rubber Heels.'
She asked what the Rubber Heels were, when they were at home.
'The Rubber Heels, heart, are the police investigation department. […]

2003, John E. Gardner, The Streets of Town, page 14:

[…] their programme may actually have served to enhance the attractiveness and legitimacy of CIB work, a job much reviled in the heyday of The Sweeney when the 'rubber-heels' brigade of A10 were portrayed as yet another hurdle in the pursuit of villains and justice.

2012, Frank Leishman, Paul Mason, Policing and the Media, page 147:

(UK, dated, informal) Police officers tasked with investigating corruption within the police force.


snozzle

A few minutes later, when the two RMFD vehicles arrived, the on-scene commander instructed one of them to take up a position on the left side of the airplane and to use its snozzle to apply firefighting agents in the airplane's main cargo compartment.

2005, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.15.3 Emergency Response”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Hard Landing, Gear Collapse, Federal Express Flight 647, Boeing MD-10-10F, N364FE, Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 2003, archived from the original on 2020-10-18, page 24:

(aviation, firefighting) A reinforced firefighting nozzle used to pierce the exterior skin of an aircraft and spray water or firefighting foam inside the aircraft to help extinguish a fire.


house of detention

en-noun

house of detention (plural houses of detention)

Mama looked down and spit on the ground / Every time my name gets mentioned / The papa say "Oy, if I get that boy / I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"

1972, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”, in Paul Simon:


watchout

A change in wind direction is a watchout.

Being uninformed on firefighting strategy and tactics is a watchout.

(firefighting) Any potentially hazardous condition or situation that may make a fire more dangerous.


overpolice

en-verb

overpolice (third-person singular simple present overpolices, present participle overpolicing, simple past and past participle overpoliced)

overpolices (present singular third-person)
overpolicing (participle present)
overpoliced (participle past)
overpoliced (past)

First, many veterans of protest marches believe that the police overpolice these events. Second, why are the police still willing to protect a St. Patrick's Day Parade if security concerns and costs are suddenly so important?

2003 February 15, “The Fundamental Right to March”, in The New York Times:

Black people in America fit that description of being overpoliced and oversentenced.

2016 January 7, Cory Doctorow, “White House plan to use data to shrink prison populations could be a racist dumpster fire”, in Boing Boing:

Part of the difference in attitudes comes from African Americans’ experiences within a racially biased criminal justice system that overpolices black and brown neighborhoods and rarely holds officers accountable for reported mistreatment, excessive force, or even killing African Americans.

2016 August 5, Victoria M. Massie, “Cops don’t need to hand out ice cream. They need to end racist policing practices.”, in Vox:

So if you live in a zip code that has been overpoliced historically, you are going to have overarresting. And we know that the overpolicing and the overarresting happens in Black and Latino communities. That's just a fact.

2023 July 19, Brianna Scott, Ailsa Chang, Jeanette Woods, “How AI could perpetuate racism, sexism and other biases in society”, in NPR:

(transitive) To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.


on the beat

bobby on the beat

From midsize departments like the one in Indianapolis to big-city forces like New York City's, from top commanders to officers on the beat, police officers nationwide were unprepared to calm the summer's unrest, and their approaches consistently did the opposite.

2021 March 20, Kim Barker, Mike Baker, Ali Watkins, “In City After City, Police Completely Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests”, in The New York Times:

(law enforcement) Of a police officer: patrolling his or her assigned area; on duty.


command and control

"American police simply were not prepared for the challenge that they faced in terms of planning, logistics, training and police command-and-control supervision," said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit that advises departments on management and tactics.

(military, law enforcement) The management and logistics of a military or paramilitary force.


field stop

(law enforcement) An on the ground stop made by a police officer.


OCCB

(New York, law enforcement) Initialism of organized crime control bureau. of the New York Police Department


rule of engagement

en-noun

rule of engagement (plural rules of engagement)

The military, which acknowledged that the killings violated its rules of engagement, announced the deaths on Friday, hours after saying it had recovered the bodies of three other Israeli hostages in Gaza.

2023 December 16, Aaron Boxerman, Ben Hubbard, Thomas Fuller, “Israel Says 3 Hostages Bore White Flag Before Being Killed by Troops”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(military, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) An internal rule among a military, police, etc. force defining the circumstances in which and manner with which to use force.


pain compliance

The use of painful stimulus to control a subject, including the use of pressure on painful areas, hyperextension or hyperflexion, weapons, or chemical irritants.


positional asphyxia

A form of asphyxia which occurs when one's position prevents them from breathing adequately.


crisis intervention

crisis intervention (plural crisis interventions)

A time-limited intervention with a specific psychotherapeutic approach to immediately stabilize those in emotional crisis.


VIW

VIW (countable and uncountable, plural VIWs)

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of victim/informant/witness.


corrections center

corrections center (plural corrections centers)

correctional center
correctional center#English

(formal, euphemistic) Alternative form of correctional center.


correction center

correction center (plural correction centers)


corrections centre

corrections centre (plural corrections centres)

(Commonwealth, formal, euphemistic) Alternative form of correctional center.


correction centre

correction centre (plural correction centres)


correctional centre

correctional centre (plural correctional centres)


correctional center

correctional center (plural correctional centers)

(formal, euphemistic) A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment and/or social rehabilitation.


TSG

tactical support group
tactical support group#English

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of tactical support group.


VCP

vehicle checkpoint
vehicle checkpoint#English

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of vehicle checkpoint.


clearance rate

(crime, law enforcement) The proportion of crimes that are solved by the police with respect to the total number of crimes reported.


fire appliance

Synonym of fire engine (“vehicle used by firefighters”)


Bukit Aman

From Malay Bukit Aman (literally “Peace Hill”), which is the location of the Royal Malaysia Police's headquarters building.

bor

(Malaysia, informal, colloquial, metonymically) The Royal Malaysia Police; the police.


movement control order

en-noun

movement control order (plural movement control orders)

Calque of Malay Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan.

calque

(Malaysia) Any of a series of national quarantine and cordon sanitaire measures imposed by the Malaysian government to halt the spread of COVID-19.

限行令 (xiànxíng lìng, literally “restriction order”)

மலேசிய அரசு இயக்க கட்டுப்பாட்டு உத்தரவு

malēciya aracu iyakka kaṭṭuppāṭṭu uttaravu


burnover

The situation in which a fire overtakes the firefighters who are attempting to deal with it.


OIS

en-noun

OIS (countable and uncountable, plural OIS)

But an objective overview of the current literature and research associated with post-OIS officer support compared to various aspects of the research ...

2007, David E. Hatch, Randy Dickson, Officer-Involved Shootings and Use of Force: Practical Investigative Techniques, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 188:

Officer-involved shooting (OIS) investigations are directed at the determination of whether the shooter officer's decision to use deadly force was "objectively reasonable […]"

2017, Darrell L. Ross, Gary M. Vilke, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody, Routledge, →ISBN, page 285:

The SHOT database gathered a dataset of 4283 officer-involved shootings (OIS) that have occurred in 50 states between January 2000 and December 2017 […]

2019, James F. Albrecht, Garth den Heyer, Perry Stanislas, Policing and Minority Communities: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:

officer-involved shooting
officer-involved shooting#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of officer-involved shooting.


highway patrol

(law enforcement) any police unit which is primarily responsible for overseeing and enforcing of regulations on roads and highways


life imprisonment

life imprisonment (usually uncountable, plural life imprisonments)

(law) The state of being imprisoned for the rest of one's life.


Irish clubhouse

Irish clubhouse (plural Irish clubhouses)


crisis response team

crisis response team (plural crisis response teams)

(law enforcement) a group of individuals trained to provide trauma mitigation and education in the aftermath of a critical incident


slips and capture

A type of cognitive error whereby a person inadvertently performs one action while intending to do another.

(law enforcement) Particularly, the error by which a police officer bears a gun while intending to take out a Taser instead.


wetline

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-wetline.wav

In cheatgrass the wetline technique has proven to be successful and is equally useful in other light to moderate grass fuels on relatively smooth terrain.

1982, Henry A. Wright, Fire Ecology: United States and Southern Canada, page 398:

We have used this method in the evening when strip headfires would burn into the wetline, but the backfire would go out.

1977, Robert E. Martin, Wetline Technique for Prescribed Burning Firelines in Rangeland:

(firefighting) A line that has been doused with water in order to stop the advance of a fire.


edge control

It is conditioned by edge control, minimizing threats to personal danger, resolving the encounter, avoiding excessive paperwork, and getting on with something more interesting.

2012, Carol Archbold, Policing: A Text/Reader, page 399:

In this section I describe edge control as a phenomenon associated with the contingent (or unpredictable) nature of police-citizen interactions.

2014, John P. Crank, Understanding Police Culture, page 174:

A great deal of police work is about edge control.

2018, Michael Caldero, Jeffrey Dailey, Brian Withrow, Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause, page 199:

(law enforcement) The management of an unpredictable situation in order to prevent it from becoming physically dangerous.


police commissioner

police commissioner (plural police commissioners)

A senior rank of a member of a police force.


take the ride

en-verb

take the ride (third-person singular simple present takes the ride, present participle taking the ride, simple past took the ride, past participle taken the ride)

takes the ride (present singular third-person)
taking the ride (participle present)
took the ride (past)
taken the ride (participle past)

(idiomatic, slang, US, law enforcement) To concede to be arrested for a crime and be transported to jail.


trap car

(law enforcement) A vehicle used by law enforcement agencies as bait to capture car thieves or thieves who steal items from cars.


GULAG

Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”): see the definition.

One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence.

[2006?], David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin, Thomas Lamont, “Day 1 Content Essay: The Establishment and Scope of the GULAG System”, in GULAG: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy […], [U.S.A.]: National Park Service; Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-31, page 7, column 1:


sprinkler head

A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.


have got someone's six

have got someone's six (third-person singular simple present has got someone's six, present participle having got someone's six, simple past and past participle had got someone's six)

has got someone's six (present singular third-person)
having got someone's six (participle present)
had got someone's six (participle past)
had got someone's six (past)

Six is slang for "rear; behind", which is itself an ellipsis of six o'clock; see more at the entry for six.

I've got your six!

have someone's back
have someone's back#English

(US, chiefly military and law enforcement slang) Synonym of have someone's back


predpol

Predictive policing, using data and analytics to anticipate crimes.


perimeter check

en-noun

perimeter check (plural perimeter checks)

(law enforcement) A patrol conducted by law enforcement to monitor or secure an area.


hot pencil

A police officer uses a pencil to write tickets, which would get warm if used a lot due to friction.

He was a hot pencil who kept CHP brass happy by writing more tickets than anybody. Secretly, he was using his highly polished Badge 861 1 to stalk young women for weird, sexually tinged power games.

From what he could ascertain, he was at least as good or even better as a police detective and as a partner than Charga ever was or could ever be. “he was more than a hot pencil when he was in uniform.” Dunne continued, “Did you know ...

2011, Joseph "Champagne Joe" Militello, Canister Of Evil, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 34:

Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct Tom Barker. about the same time as the police. ... As is common in police agencies, his fellow officers were aware of his bizarre antics. ... Known as “hot pencil,” he averaged 250 tickets a month.

2020, Tom Barker, Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 104:

(law enforcement slang) A police officer who writes many tickets.


bomb squad

They isolate; they evacuate the area; and they call the bomb squad. We then go in and do our examination.

1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Tagging of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee..., page 181:

Sam and the informant were quickly arrested, and the bomb squad defused the bombs.

2015, Robert A Casper Sr., The FBI, a Vocation to Serve:

A division of a police force or the military responsible for safely defusing or detonating hazardous explosive devices.


radio car

Daniels: Can I get you out of a radio car? ... I'm short two men in ops and my follow-up squad couldn't make a case to save its life. You're too damned good to be humpin' calls.

2006 Sept. 10, David Simon & al., "Boys of Summer", The Wire, 00:23:10

(US law enforcement slang) Synonym of police car.


murder book

(law enforcement) A case file of a murder investigation.


TARU

(New York City) Initialism of Technical Assistance Response Unit


A variant of the British 999, originally selected as an appropriate number for rotary-dial telephones and adapted in New Zealand because the formatting on its pulse-dial system made 1 equivalent to 9 as processed by its British-made telecommunications equipment.

When you call 111 in New Zealand, the Spark operator usually answers the phone with "111 Emergency. Do you require fire, ambulance, or police?"

The telephone number for emergency services in New Zealand and Nauru.


The telephone number for emergency services in Mongolia.

The telephone number for law enforcement in Peru.


JAWI

w:ms:Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (“Islamic Religious Department of the Federal Territory, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”).

JAIS

Islamic law enforcement agency in Selangor


JAKIM

(Malaysia, Islam) Acronym of Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (“Department of Islamic Development Malaysia”).


HMP

(Newfoundland, law enforcement) Initialism of Her/His Majesty's Penitentiary.

(Commonwealth, law enforcement) Abbreviation of Her/His Majesty's Prison. The name of several prisons in the British Commonwealth and British Empire.


HMP

HMP (countable and uncountable, plural HMPs)

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of Her/His Majesty's Prison.: The prefix used in the names of prisons in the United Kingdom.


ADX

administrative maximum
w:supermax prison

(US) Abbreviation of administrative maximum; supermax.


flash over

en-verb

flash over (third-person singular simple present flashes over, present participle flashing over, simple past and past participle flashed over)

flashes over (present singular third-person)
flashing over (participle present)
flashed over (participle past)
flashed over (past)

To undergo an unintended electric discharge or arc over or around an insulator.


Rosgvardia

Borrowed from Russian Росгва́рдия (Rosgvárdija).

National Guard of Russia (the internal military force of the Russian government)


OCTB

(Hong Kong, law enforcement) Initialism of Organised Crime and Triad Bureau.


interview under caution

en-noun

interview under caution (plural interviews under caution)

From the mandatory caution given by the police to the suspect at the beginning of such interviews: “You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”.

(criminal law, law enforcement, England and Wales, formal) A formal interview of a suspect by the police as part of a criminal investigation, for which the suspect is entitled to legal representation. Used to determine whether or not to prosecute the suspect, and most commonly conducted following arrest, though sometimes in other circumstances.


EEBD

emergency escape breathing device#English

(emergency services) Initialism of emergency escape breathing device.


IDLH

Rescues in IDLH conditions can be extremely hazardous.

(emergency services) Initialism of immediately dangerous to life or health.


CTSFO

(UK, law enforcement) Abbreviation of counter-terrorist specialist firearms officer.


PoCC

prisoners of conscience
prisoner of conscience#English

(law, politics, law enforcement, incarceration) Abbreviation of prisoners of conscience committee.


POCC

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of police operations command centre.


NYAG

Among the issues the NYAG is examining is whether WeWork’s founder and former chief executive, Adam Neumann, indulged in self-dealing to enrich himself.

2019 November 19, “WeWork: New York attorney general investigating founder's possible self-dealing”, in The Guardian:

attorney general
attorney general#English

(law enforcement) Initialism of New York State attorney general.


fire safety

Practices intended to prevent fires and reduce the destruction they cause.


USCP

United States Capitol Police
w:United States Capitol Police

(law enforcement) Initialism of United States Capitol Police: a federal law enforcement agency in the United States with nationwide jurisdiction charged with protecting the United States Congress.


felony traffic stop

felony traffic stop (plural felony traffic stops)

(US, law enforcement) Synonym of felony stop


felony stop

(US, law enforcement) A traffic stop of a person that is deemed dangerous, and performed from a distance by shouting instructions with weapons drawn.


The telephone number for firefighting and emergency ambulance service in Singapore.


no further action

Alternative form: (abbreviation) NFA

(law enforcement, criminal law, UK, Malaysia) A potential formal outcome for a suspect from a police investigation, indicating that no action will be taken.


engine house

(firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.


ICV

ICV (countable and uncountable, plural ICVs)

(law enforcement) Abbreviation of in-car video.


Cop City

Coined by critics of the project in 2021.

(informal, neologism) A neighborhood of Atlanta, DeKalb, Georgia, United States A proposed development for a forested area and former prison farm which would turn it into a model neighborhood mockup for police training and police training academy


debtors' prison

debtors' prison (plural debtors' prisons)

A prison for people who are unable to pay debt.


prescribed burn

prescribed burn (plural prescribed burns)


controlled burn

controlled burn (plural controlled burns)

A wildfire or brushfire set intentionally and carefully managed for purposes of fire suppression, agriculture, ecological management, etc.


maaveh

Borrowed from Pahari-Potwari مان٘ویں (māṉveṉ), plural form of مان٘واں (māṉvāṉ, “mother's young brother”).

bor+

For the young people in the youth clubs, the constant presence of local authorities was uncomfortable. At a Prevent funded youth club in Leeds, one of the boys complains to me: ‘Why is he [Danish] always letting the ‘maaveh’ (police) in here?’

2018 February 13, Fahid Qureshi, “The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities”, in Nature, retrieved 2024-04-20:


time police

(science fiction) An organization which regulates time travel, especially with the purpose of preventing the past from being changed.


time patrol

Synonym of time police (“an organization which regulates time travel”).


time cop

(science fiction) A member of the time police.


on the hurry up

'Read the CAD as you go – on the hurry up please. Need you there as soon as possible. Make sure you let Control know when you're on scene.'

2018, Alice Vinten, On the Line: Life – and death – in the Metropolitan Police:

(UK, law enforcement, slang) At top speed; as fast as possible.


oprichnik

(historical) A member of the bodyguard corps established by Tsar Ivan the Terrible to govern a division of Russia from 1565 to 1572.


detective inspector

en-noun

detective inspector (plural detective inspectors)

(UK, law enforcement) A police rank used in Commonwealth countries.


officer down

(law enforcement) A police officer has been critically wounded, incapacitated, or killed.


black notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking information on unidentified dead bodies.


green notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol warning about the criminal activities of a person considered to be a possible threat to public safety.


purple notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol providing information on modi operandi, procedures, objects, devices, or hiding places used by criminals.


orange notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol warning of an imminent threat and danger to persons or property.


blue notice

A 26-year-old woman named ‘S A’ “was identified as a DAESH (Islamic State) terrorist wanted with a ‘blue notice’,” the tweet said. An Interpol blue notice is issued to collect additional information about a person’s identity, location or activities in relation to a crime.

2021 February 15, “Turkey catches New Zealanders linked to Isis entering from Syria”, in The Guardian:

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking to locate, identify or obtain information on a person of interest in a criminal investigation.


yellow notice

(law enforcement) A notice from Interpol seeking to locate a missing person or to identify a person unable to identify themselves.


smoke diver

Secondly, the fire detectors will immediately call the fire extinguishing crew who have at their disposal smoke diver equipment and extinguishing material.

1952, Ingeniørvidenskabelige skrifter, page 62:

He wasn't just satisfied to be a firefighter, he [became a] smoke diver as well. He also wanted to be a fire chief.

This was one of three drills experienced firefighters from across the nation had to complete Tuesday as part of a weeklong training course to become certified as smoke divers.

2012 November 14, Joy Lukachick Smith, “Rigorous Smoke Diver training challenges firefighters in Dalton”, in Chattanooga Times Free Press:

A smoke diver is considered an “interior attack firefighter” specially trained to carry out rescues and extinguish flames while wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus.

2020 July 23, Mark Webber, “Smoke Diver: Gruner completes challenging course in emergency response and disaster training”, in The Republic:

A firefighter with breathing apparatus who enters smoke-filled rooms and buildings (to search, rescue, and extinguish).


FAM

“I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional well-being of FAMs at risk,” Kathleen Christian, who resigned last year as a clinical psychologist with the federal air marshals, said on Nov. 17 in a scathing email to several marshals.

2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times:

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of federal air marshal.


IHAT

Iraq Historic Allegations Team
w:Iraq Historic Allegations Team

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of Iraq Historic Allegations Team.


Coordinate term: JO2

(Philippines, law enforcement) Abbreviation of jail officer, grade one (“prison guard”). The lowest grade of jail officers, the entry level jail officer.


smoke diving

Mr. Phillips in his letter appears to confound the smoke respirator of Mr. Roberts, with the "smoke diving apparatus" of the late Mr. Deane (patented by him in 1823), which has for some time past been most successfully employed by the firemen of the London Fire Brigade

1849, Wm. Baddley, Mechanics Magazine, volume 50 (letter), page 7:

According to the questionnaire, the most demanding fire-fighting and rescue tasks on physical work capacity in terms of cardio-respiratory capacity, muscular performance and motor coordination were smoke-diving, which requires the use of full personal protective equipment, clearing tasks with heavy manual tools, and roof work, respectively.

1997, Åsa Kilbom, Nordic Research on the Elderly Workforce, page 33:

This advanced course covers smoke diving, tactical control, organised control of smoke divers and search and rescue.

2001, Lloyd's Ship Manager: LSM, page 40:

Fire-fighting work that requires the use of protective equipment resembling that used by marine divers.


re-Mirandize

en-verb

re-Mirandize (third-person singular simple present re-Mirandizes, present participle re-Mirandizing, simple past and past participle re-Mirandized)

re-Mirandizes (present singular third-person)
re-Mirandizing (participle present)
re-Mirandized (participle past)
re-Mirandized (past)

(transitive, US, law enforcement) To Mirandize again.


SIO

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of senior investigating officer.


compliance strike

en-noun

compliance strike (plural compliance strikes)

(euphemistic, law enforcement) A punch or kick.


EOW

Police Officer Thomas Frederick (Tom) Ballman, Kirkwood Police Department, MO, EOW: Thursday, February 7, 2008, Cause of Death: Gunfire.

2009 February 25, “Peace Officers Killed Last Year in the Line of Duty”, in Congressional Record (Bound Edition), volume 155, number 5, U.S. Government Publishing Office, page 5581:

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of end of watch.


offence to be taken into consideration

offence to be taken into consideration (plural offences to be taken into consideration)

offences to be taken into consideration (plural)

From offence + to be + taken into consideration.

com

(UK, criminal law, law enforcement) An additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser weight than a full conviction.


OCG

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of organised crime group.


AFO

(UK, law enforcement) Initialism of authorised firearms officer.


FTO

field training officer
field training officer#English

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of field training officer.


RWI

rotary-wing intercept
rotary-wing intercept#English

(law enforcement, military) Initialism of rotary-wing intercept.


helitack

A member of a team of wildland firefighters who are transported by helicopter to fight a fire.


helispot

(US) A designated location near a fire where it is safe for firefighters' helicopters to land and take off.


HMPS

(UK, law enforcement) Abbreviation of His/Her Majesty's Prison Service.


NYSP

New York State Police
w:en:New York State Police

(US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of New York State Police.


bucket line

Synonym of bucket brigade (“line of people involved in firefighting”)


spy cop

(UK, law enforcement, slang) An undercover police officer tasked with infiltrating a politically active group which is deemed to pose a risk of criminal activity, so as to allow the police to monitor the group's activities on an ongoing basis.


pretty police

(UK, law enforcement, slang, historical) Male police officers disguised as gay men who instigated sexual encounters with gay men as an excuse to arrest them for soliciting sex, as a form of anti-gay discrimination.


JAIS

Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor
Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor#Malay

(Malaysia, Islam) Initialism of Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (“Islamic Religious Department of Selangor, a branch of the government organisation JAKIM”).

JAWI

Islamic law enforcement agency in Kuala Lumpur


Monster Mansion

So called because of the large number of high-profile, high-risk inmates.


hold-up squad

Amnesty International (AI) has found that allegations of torture and other forms of abuses by members of the hold-up squad of this city's police department are "substantial enough to justify an inquiry."

1982 April 24, David Morris, “Torture in the North”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

A subsection of a police department specializing in apprehending violent and dangerous suspects.


angel fingers

(firefighting) Tongues of flame that are a sign of impending rollover.


community quarantine

en-noun

community quarantine (plural community quarantines)

(Philippines) Any of the series of quarantines and cordon sanitaire measures imposed by the Philippine government to control the transmission of COVID-19.

COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines


process-serving

process-serving (countable and uncountable, plural process-servings)

(law enforcement) The act or assignment of delivering processes or summonses.


chief super

chief superintendent
w:chief superintendent

(UK, law enforcement, colloquial) Clipping of chief superintendent.


Ch Supt

The inquest into how 96 Liverpool supporters died at that 1989 match was told that in Ch Supt Brian Mole's F division, four officers had to resign and seven were disciplined after the prank, which occured^([sic]) in October 1988, came to light.

2014 July 7, David Conn, “Hillsborough inquest hears of police commander's transfer before match”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK, law enforcement) Abbreviation of chief superintendent.


post prison

The regimental guardhouse was on the ground floor of the Regimental Headquarters Building at its southern end, facing the quadrangle. It was modern in every respect and about as secure as any prison. There were never more than about fifteen or twenty regimental prisoners confined in the guardhouse, men either awaiting trial or serving sentences of six months or less. Most of the sentences were for minor offenses, such as drunkenness, violation of orders, pilferage, and absence without leave—A.W.O.L. Men convicted of more serious offenses, such as desertion, larceny, insubordination, sex deviation, and other more serious crimes, were confined in the post prison.

1989, Lucian King Truscott, The Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry. Life in the Old Army, 1917-1942, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 43:

(US military, historical) The prison of a regimental post.


tac squad

Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: "The Moral Majority, cops and Klan. Work together hand in hand." — helmeted tac squad on horses, Hondas, facing us on Powell Street, itching to wield their billy clubs, waiting for any excuse to let fly.

1984 August 11, Merle Woo, “Revolutionary Optimism—The Order of the Day”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 5:


NOPD

New Orleans Police Department
w:New Orleans Police Department

(law enforcement) Initialism of New Orleans Police Department.


gotaway

Under Biden in 2021, gotaways leaped to almost 390,000 (a 465 percent increase over Trump's last year).

2024, Troy E. Nehls, Borderless by Design:

(US, law enforcement) An illegal immigrant who has successfully entered the country without being apprehended.


juice badge

(US, historical, law enforcement) An unofficial police badge issued in the 1930s by the LAPD chief and given to his supporters.


D/S

(law enforcement) Initialism of deputy sheriff.


crime scene tape

crime scene tape (countable and uncountable, plural crime scene tapes)

(law enforcement, criminology) Police tape that used to cordon off a crime scene.


MMEA

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
w:Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency

(Malaysia, law enforcement, nautical) Initialism of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (“Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia”).


Belmarsh

He was the third prisoner to have died in Belmarsh within the past year. Another inmate was found dead there in November.

2020 January 8, Owen Bowcott, “Investigation after prisoner found dead in cell at Belmarsh”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Short for HM Prison Belmarsh, a high-security prison in southeast London.


strip cell

It was in February 1980 and I'd been beaten by guards and called a "little fag" and thrown into a strip cell and left there for days, cold.

1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, quoting James Sipes, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 5:

A barren prison cell in which a prisoner is kept without clothing, sheets, etc.


whole life order

whole life order (plural whole life orders)

(England, Wales, criminal law) A type of life imprisonment reserved for the most serious cases, in which the convict is not eligible for parole or conditional release.


tactical contact

tactical contact (countable and uncountable, plural tactical contacts)

(countable) An instance of such ramming.


STAR

Special Task and Rescue
w:Special Task and Rescue

(Malaysia, law enforcement, nautical) Acronym of Special Task and Rescue.

w:Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore)

(Singapore, law enforcement) Acronym of Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore).


bunker out

en-verb

bunker out (third-person singular simple present bunkers out, present participle bunkering out, simple past and past participle bunkered out)

bunkers out (present singular third-person)
bunkering out (participle present)
bunkered out (participle past)
bunkered out (past)

(slang, firefighting, intransitive) To suit up in firefighting gear.


attitude-adjuster

(US, slang, law enforcement) A nightstick or any type of club.


Myrotvorets

Borrowed from Ukrainian Миротворець (Myrotvorecʹ, literally “Peacemaker”).

bor+

This estimate is contested by the estimates of the Ukrainian pro-governmental website Mirotvorets, which regularly publishes data of identified separatists. Mirotvorets puts the total number of Russian foreign fighters, excluding regular military, at around 50-80,000. However, there is one common thread in the numbers provided by the Union of Donbass Volunteers and Mirotvorets:[…]

2017 May 30, Kacper Rekawek, Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 64:

But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.

2019 August 27, Mansur Mirovalev, “Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-04-24:

I had asked him about the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) organization, which hosts a database he described as a political instrument for counterterrorism in Ukraine. Launched in December 2014, Myrotvorets collects personal information about people believed to be conspiring against the country.[…]Myrotvorets and its separatist counterpart Tribunal offer concrete examples of the difficulties of researching politicized contexts like war.

2023 December 6, Ilmari Käihkö, "Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance, 2014-2023, Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, page 32:

(Internet) A Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.


traffic lead

(Philippines, law enforcement) unarmed traffic police


number coding

(Philippines, law enforcement) A policy in some urban areas where vehicles with plate numbers ending in a particular number are barred from using the main streets on a particular pre-assigned day to reduce traffic.


RBPF

Royal Brunei Police Force
w:Royal Brunei Police Force

(Brunei, law enforcement) Initialism of Royal Brunei Police Force (“Polis Diraja Brunei”)


fog out

en-verb

fog out (third-person singular simple present fogs out, present participle fogging out, simple past and past participle fogged out)

fogs out (present singular third-person)
fogging out (participle present)
fogged out (participle past)
fogged out (past)

(transitive, firefighting) To ventilate a space by breaking open a window to let smoke out.


racial profile

(public policy, law enforcement) An estimation or generalization about the behavior of a group based on their appearance, skin color, hair texture, or clothing.


racially-profile

racially-profile (third-person singular simple present racially-profiles, present participle racially-profiling, simple past and past participle racially-profiled)

racially-profiles (present singular third-person)
racially-profiling (participle present)
racially-profiled (participle past)
racially-profiled (past)

(transitive, law enforcement, public policy) To engage in racial profiling; to act as a racial profiler.


keeplock

I was sentenced to 90 days 'keep-lock' in order 'to deter other inmates from disobeying an order to urinate.'

1989 December 17, Edward Inman, “Disobeying An Order To Piss Lands Transsexual In Isolation”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 5:

Total or near-total confinement to a prisoner to their cell.


patrol officer

(law enforcement) A member of a local or state law enforcement agency who patrols a particular area.


kyohwaso

A prison in North Korea used as a reeducation camp.


kwalliso

A labour and concentration camp operated by North Korea, especially used for political prisoners.


drafting site

If you don’t have a drafting site, but you do have an accessible creek, is it possible to build an impoundment on the creek for fire water supply?

2012 March 1, “Drafting Tools & Techniques”, in FirefighterNation, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:

Conditions at the drafting site, however, were less than ideal, which forced the engine companies to violate some of the basic guidelines of drafting.

2017 November 1, “Urban Drafting Operations at a Chemical Warehouse Fire”, in Fire Engineering, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:

(firefighting) A designated location for a firefighter to draw or pump water out of a natural source, such as a lake or river.

Saugstelle

designated location for a firefighter to draw water out of a natural source


tickle the wire

tickle the wire (third-person singular simple present tickles the wire, present participle tickling the wire, simple past and past participle tickled the wire)

tickles the wire (present singular third-person)
tickling the wire (participle present)
tickled the wire (participle past)
tickled the wire (past)

(criminology, law enforcement, idiomatic) To create a situation that will encourage the target of a criminal probe to speak and divulge information on a wiretapped telephone.


police escort

(law enforcement) A service offered by police and law enforcement to assist in transporting important individuals or resources.


party van

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-party van.wav

Attested 2006 in a comic posted on 4chan: FBI agents trick Anonymous into opening his door by claiming they are the “4chan party van”.

As ban puts it, "This is our razor-thin disclaimer which protects us in real-life" from what /b/tards refer to as "a ride in the FBI party van."

2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired:

Who needs the FBI party van when you can just order CALEA take out?

2014 September 5, Sean Gallagher, “When NSA and FBI call for surveillance takeout, these companies deliver”, in Ars Technica:

(Internet slang, humorous) An FBI or other law enforcement van, especially if carrying agents coming to arrest someone for cybercrime.


police report

(law, law enforcement) A formal documentation of an incident that occurs and is recorded by a police officer.


shot-drill

(historical) A form of nonproductive penal labor in which prisoners are forced to carry cannonballs back and forth while stooped over.


police lieutenant

en-noun

police lieutenant (plural police lieutenants)

(law enforcement) A police rank in the police departments of certain nations.


police sergeant

police sergeant (plural police sergeants)

(law enforcement) A rank of law enforcement who supervises officers and handles daily precinct operations.


police van

(law enforcement) A type of vehicle operated by a police force, usually employed for the transport of prisoners inside a specially adapted cell.


security police

security police (plural security police)

(law enforcement) A law enforcement agency focusing primarily on providing security and law enforcement services to a particular area or a specific property.


police jury

(US, law enforcement) The most common type of governing body for a parish in the state of Louisiana.


police constable

police constable (plural police constables)

(law enforcement) A law enforcement officer of the lowest rank.


police squad

(law enforcement) A small squad of law enforcement officers who are trained to deal with a particular kind of crime.


police captain

(law enforcement) A high-level officer in a police department who is usually responsible for an entire district or precinct.


religious police

religious police (plural religious police)

(Islam) A police force responsible for the enforcement of religious norms and associated religious laws.


most wanted

most wanted (countable and uncountable, plural most wanteds)

(crime, law enforcement) A list of criminals and alleged criminals who are believed to be at large and are identified as a law enforcement agency's highest priority for capture.


field training officer

field training officer (plural field training officers)

(US, law enforcement) An experienced or senior member of an organization who is responsible for the training and evaluation of a junior or probationary level member.


rotary-wing intercept

rotary-wing intercept (plural rotary-wing intercepts)

rotary-wing aircraft
rotary-wing aircraft

(law enforcement, military) An intercept performed by rotary-wing aircraft.


filling site

Water shuttles involve a process in which tankers deliver their load of water to the emergency scene (the dump site), travel to a filling site, reload with water, and then return to the emergency scene to dump again.

2003, Safe Operation of Fire Tankers, Emmitsburg, Maryland: United States Fire Administration, retrieved 2024-11-01, page 97:

(firefighting) A designated location for a firefighter to draw or pump water out of a natural source, such as a lake or river.


fire site

Colletti said having safety officers at fill and dump sites is a good idea because in most shuttle scenarios, everyone is rushing and in a hurry to get water to the fire site as quickly as possible, sometimes throwing caution to the wind.

2017 May 19, Ed Ballam, “Rural Water Supply for Fire Supression Is an Art Form”, in Firehouse, Nashville, Tennessee: Endeavor Business Media, retrieved 2024-11-01:

One of the key components of most water-shuttle operations is the use of dump tanks to hold water at the fire site for the initial pumpers to draw water from.

2014 March 1, “A Water-Shuttle & Drafting Drill”, in FirefighterNation, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:


show-up

Deverbal from show up. (showing of a suspect): Compare lineup.

(law enforcement) The showing of a suspect to a victim by police in the hope of identifying the suspect as the culprit.


fill site

The most important attribute of a fill site is a substantial and accessible water supply. Without a water source able to support fireground operations, a fill site is of little value.

2021 October 1, Andrew Corselli, “Highway Hydraulics: Main Street to Country Roads, Part 3: Routing and Fill Sites”, in Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment, Fairlawn, New Jersey: Clarion Fire & Rescue Group, retrieved 2024-11-01:


flameover

flameover (countable and uncountable, plural flameovers)


surround and drown

Firefighting carried out from the exterior of the burning structure.


fire shirt

A lightweight fire-resistant shirt worn by firefighters.


left-handed smoke shifter

left-handed smoke shifter (plural left-handed smoke shifters)

A fictional item, the subject of a fool's errand among firefighters.


FFFP

Initialism of film-forming fluoroprotein (“type of foam used in firefighting”).


jumping-sheet

A sheet held by a group of firefighters down to which people can jump from a burning structure.


fire barn

A fire station, originally one with a stable for horses.


VEIS

Initialism of vent, enter, isolate, search (“a firefighting and rescue strategy”).


burning index

A number describing the potential amount of effort needed to contain a single fire of a particular fuel type within a certain area.


pencil ladder

A kind of narrow collapsible ladder used by firefighters.


burn building

A structure built to be set on fire to train firefighters.


turnout pants

(Canada, US) A firefighter's protective pants (trousers).


dry chemical

A fluidized and siliconized monoammonium phosphate powder used in firefighting.


fuelbreak

A point where a natural or artificial change in fuel characteristics reduces the spread of a fire.


brush truck

A small fire engine equipped for wildland firefighting.


spike camp

A remote fire camp with limited facilities.


primary fire

Coordinate term: secondary fire

(UK) A major fire, generally occurring in a building or vehicle and involving rescues or fatalities.


secondary fire

Coordinate term: primary fire

(UK) A minor fire, generally outdoors and not harming people or damaging property.


still alarm

The notification of a fire without sounding a fire alarm, for example by telephone.


fire camp

A temporary camp established near a large fire to provide facilities to the firefighters.


trash line

A short hose used to put out trash fires or in other situations where a longer hose would be unwieldy.


life net

A portable net for catching people as they fall or jump from a burning structure.


Thornton's rule

The observation that each kilogram of oxygen used in the combustion of common organic materials results in the release of 13.1 megajoules of energy.


hose jacket

(firefighting) A device that clamps around a burst or leaking portion of hose.


soft room

Glendale District 4 purchased toys and equipment for the "soft room" occupied by children when family violence/tragic events bring them into police headquarters.

1989, “Child Abuse Prevention”, in LACMA Physician, volume 119, number 12, Los Angeles County Medical Association, page 29:

Though he possessed no formal training in interviewing children, he had spent five years working with traumatized children and learning through trial and error how to interview them. His boss assigned him to show the Martensville rookie how to interview them too, in the Soft Room at the Saskatoon police station.

1997 November 9, Frann Harris, “The Prosecution”, in Martensville: Truth Or Justice?: The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 37:

In deliberate contrast, the soft room was outfitted with overstuffed chairs and painted a deep blue. In addition to improving interviewees’ experiences, Hill said, the physical and psychological comfort of the soft room will help officers obtain more detailed, accurate testimonies from victims.

2015 April 22, Allison Oligschlaeger, “West Valley police open 'soft' interview room for victims of violence”, in Deseret News, →ISSN:

The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department installed the first soft room in Missouri.

2024 June 25, Amanda Alvarado, “Police department creates ‘soft’ interview room for assault survivors”, in News, WIBW:

Last month, with the help of Project Beloved, Missouri’s Kansas City Police Department remodeled a formerly stiff and uninviting room (used for both victims and suspects) into a soft interview room to solely serve victims of sexual assault. Two years ago, another police department in the Kansas City suburb of Belton used a federal grant to create a similar soft room.

2024 July 11, Jaclyn Diaz, “After a tragedy, a mother wants to soften the rooms where police interview victims”, in National, NPR:

(law enforcement) A room set up in a police station with amenities that make it easier to talk with children, trauma victims, or other vulnerable populations.


GCQ

community quarantine
community quarantine#English

(Philippines) Initialism of general community quarantine.


ECQ

(Philippines) Initialism of enhanced community quarantine.


MECQ

(Philippines) Initialism of modified enhanced community quarantine.


MGCQ

(Philippines) Initialism of modified general community quarantine.


HUR

As a result of an operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, known as HUR, in Kursk Oblast of Russia, a truck with Russian drones was destroyed, a source familiar with the matter told Ukrinform.

2024 November 29th, Olena Mukhina, “HUR operation destroys Russian truck with drones in Kursk Oblast”, in Euromaidan Press:

The Main Directorate of Intelligence [of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine].

HUR

initialism denoting Main Directorate of Intelligence


preconnect

It is impractical to calculate rate of flow at the time of the fire. If the fire compartment is larger than two standard preconnects can extinguish, or if the fuel load will create a fire situation beyond the control […]

2020, Bernard "Ben" J. Klaene, Thomas C. Lakamp, Structural Firefighting (page 84)

(firefighting) A hose with one end ready connected to a pump outlet.


NIBRS

The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish quarterly data.

2021 September 27, Priya Krishnakumar, “Murders rose sharply in 2020 but data is lacking across much of the country”, in CNN:

w:National Incident-Based Reporting System

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of National Incident-Based Reporting System.


UCR

The UCR report says that about 77% of reported murders in 2020 were committed with a gun, up from 74% in 2019. There is no federal database of gun sales, but other independent surveys have found that gun sales have soared during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Uniform Crime Reports
w:Uniform Crime Reports

(US, law enforcement) Initialism of Uniform Crime Reports.


NYFD

The kids' costumes thus evoke their reallife costumic counterparts, the hundreds of thousands of NYPD and NYFD t-shirts and other memorabilia sold immediately after 9/11, […]

2011, Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony, Warren Rosenberg, Portraying 9/11, page 18:

Nesh Pillay said she put on her wedding dress in the salon, a fire department chaplain threw a NYFD jacket over her shoulder and then escorted the trio to City Hall Park. The chaplain herself officiated.

2016 February 5, Ray Sanchez, “New York City crane collapse leaves 1 dead, 3 injured”, in CNN:


firestream

The fireman on the right of the nozzle is the director of the firestream. Two firemen can handle all ordinary nozzle pressures […]

1934, Robert Bolton Rogers, The Standard Drill Manual (page 62)

(firefighting) The stream of water or foam used to extinguish a fire.


LACES

(firefighting) Acronym of lookouts, anchor points, communications, escape routes, safety zones.


hose bridge

(firefighting) A device laid over a hose so that vehicles can pass over it without pinching or damaging it.


flash fuel

(firefighting) Any natural forest material, such as grass or pine needles, that ignites easily and burns quickly.