This glossary contains the words people can use when talking about something that is related to police officer's job. Wether it is about investigations, crimes or weapons, etc.
Accelerant
noun
A substance used to aid the spread of fire.
Example: Arson was suspected when police found accelerants at the scene of the fire.
fr: Accélérateur
Accused
noun
A person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime.
Example: In terms of the marginality of the women 'many women ACCUSED of witchcraft in Kent were active and integrated in local society, rather than passive and isolated' and '...able to draw upon at least some support when they were ACCUSED'.
fr: Accusé
Active shooter
noun
A person who is presently using a gun to shoot people in a confined and populated area.
Example: In the midst of the chaos, anyone can play an integral role in mitigating the impacts of an active shooter incident.
fr: Tireur actif
Alibi
noun
A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
Example: "she has an alibi for the whole of yesterday evening".
fr: Alibi
Autopsy
noun
A postmortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
"an autopsy report".
Example: Journal of Pathology 200, 282 - 289 FranksTJ, Chong PY, Chui P, Galvin JR, Lourens RM, Reid AH, Selbs E,COL Mcevoy PL, Hayden CDL, Fukuaka J, Taubenberger JK and Travis WD (2003) 'Lung Pathology of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): A Study of 8 AUTOPSY Cases From Singapore.'.
fr: Autopsie
Badge
noun
A distinctive emblem worn as a mark of office, membership, achievement, licensed employment, etc.
Example: That may be dismissed as simply a voice through Perón's rhetoric, but even that was a significant positive for the Argentine descamisados , that term had been a haughty middle-class insult, but 'the Peróns...were quick to seize the epithet and turn it against their opposition' and they transformed it into a BADGE of defiance.
fr: Badge
Clue
noun
A piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery.
Example: Police officers are still searching for clues.
fr: Indice
Coroner
noun
An official who investigates violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths.
Example: As Bingham LJ said in the case of R v HM CORONER for East Kent, ex p Spooner , "it is required that the mens rea and actus rea of manslaughter should be established not against those who acted for or in the name of the company but against those who were to be identified as the embodiment of the company itself ".
fr: Coroner
Court
noun
A tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
Example: She will take the matter to court.
fr: Tribunal
Delinquency
noun
Minor crime, especially that committed by young people.
Example: It could be that aggressive, disruptive children are disliked by their peers and DELINQUENCY is merely a continuation of such behaviour rather than a result of poor peer acceptance. However, it is equally plausible that rejected children resort to DELINQUENCY and criminality in defence to rejection or in an effort to gain some sort of social recognition.
fr: Délinquance
Drug
noun
A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
Example: As the virus is already demonstrating resistance to the anti-viral DRUG amantadine 7 , the pressure to develop a vaccine against H5N1 is rising.
fr: Médicament
Firearm
noun
A rifle, pistol, or other portable gun.
Example: Taping is a method used mainly to recover hairs or fibres from clothing, in addition to this vacuuming has also been used mainly to recover FIREARM residues from the surface of clothing. Swabbing is also used to trace FIREARM residues, however most commonly used for smeared material evidence such as blood.
fr: Arme à feu
Handcuffs
noun
A pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists.
Example: Losing control, Jack knocks Sarah unconscious, HANDCUFFS her, and calls for help.
fr: Menotte
Hostage
noun
A person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
Example: If all cards are the Ace of hearts, the person lives but if any other combination occurs, the room is detonated killing the HOSTAGE (Davis, 1993).
fr: Otage
Inmate
noun
A person confined to an institution such as a prison or hospital.
Example: Inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
fr: Prisonnier
Murder
noun
The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Example: The ultimate power of society's outlook, topped with Othello's paranoid sexual jealousy, are the final factors leading to her MURDER.
fr: Meurtre
Pepper spray
noun
An aerosol spray containing oils derived from cayenne pepper, irritating to the eyes and respiratory passages and used as a disabling weapon.
Example: Police use of pepper spray to control rioters.
fr: Poivre de cayenne
Prison
noun
A building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.
Example: Austen embellishes a sense of pathos in the reader with Rushworth's comment 'I declare when I got back to Sotherton yesterday, it look like a PRISON - quite a dismal old PRISON.'
fr: Prison ou pénitencier.
Radar
noun
A system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source.
Example: A British company supplying specialised RADAR equipment to the Ministry of Defence is in the process of initiating an Enterprise IT Architecture project.
fr: Radar
Robbery
noun
The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.
Example: The law of ROBBERY is also questioned in relation to its sanctions.
