Hi, my name is Talia. I am in police-technology since last year, and I want to go in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police when I finish my police-technology. The glossary that I created will serve me for my future career and my good communication with the citizens.
Accused
noun
A person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime.
Example: The ECtHR further reduced the impact of section 34 by affirming that it is "incompatible with the right to silence to base a conviction solely or mainly on the accused's silence ".
en: accusé
alibi
noun
A form of defense used in criminal procedure wherein the accused attempts to prove that he or she was in some other place at the time the alleged offense was committed.
Example: "Brian, I think this woman is hiding something!" Belmayne protested. "Forget it Adam, she had an alibi.”.
en: alibi
arrest
verb
To seize and hold under the authority of law.
Example: In Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland between 40-50% of the black male population between the ages of 18 and 15 is at any given moment either in prison, on probation, parole or there is a warrant out for their arrest.
en: arrêter
autopsy
noun
Dissection of a body to determine the causes of death.
Example: Working during the nineteenth century, French anatomist Paul Broca conducted an autopsy on a mute, revealing a lesion or defect on a particular area of the brain.
en: autopsie
badge
noun
A distinctive emblem worn as a mark of office, membership, achievement, or licensed employment.
Example: Edwards was wearing a gold police badge on his belt in the shape of a star.
en: badge
bulletproof vest
noun
A vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet.
Example: The police officer was shot several times, but survived because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
en: gilet pare-balles
Canadian Criminal Code
noun
A law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.
Example: The Canadian Criminal Code defines the types of criminal sentences that can be imposed on offenders.
en: Code criminel canadien
charge
noun
Accuse someone of an offense under law.
Example: My expectation is that permission will not be given because he is under a formal criminal charge.
en: chef d’accusation
court
noun
A tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
Example: Nonetheless, 'the most detailed information we have about ordinary marriages comes from the histories of marriages that went seriously wrong and ended up in court'.
en: tribunal
criminal
noun
A person charged with and convicted of a crime.
Example: She argues that someone should not be allowed to win his case just because he can speak persuasively, but that it should be his actions that condemn him: 'if a man's actions are criminal, his arguments in turn should be unsound, and never should he be allowed to make a good case out of what is wrong.'
en: criminel
delinquency
noun
Minor crime committed by young people.
Example: Girls will be subjected to a higher level of surveillance than boys throughout their childhood to 'protect' them from delinquency, and likewise boys delinquent acts may be shrugged off as acceptable 'laddish' behaviour (Hudson 1990 in Gelshorpe and Morris :118).
en: délinquance
detective
noun
Investigator, member of a law enforcement agency or private person.
Example: A common factor of crime and thrillers is to create a serial with a detective or a main character.
en: détective
drug
noun
An illegal chemical substance that changes the state of a normal person.
Example: This type of drug is often mixed with other substances’ known as diluents or adulterants.
en: drogue
gun
noun
A weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force.
Example: Unlike the characters in Strangelove, who flaunt the bomb aggressively, the dedicated public servants of SAC present man as no apocalyptic threat and consider the bomb only as the gun behind the door.
en: pistolet
hit-and-run
noun
A motor accident in which the vehicle involved does not stop.
Example: I would expect my employer to fire me if I was in a hit-and-run and fled the scene.
en: délit de fuite
hostage
noun
A person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
Example: While the hostage is surprised, the kidnapper explains that this is the only outcome the hostage could have seen.
en: otage
investigation
noun
The work of inquiring into something complex and systematically.
Example: There are no boundaries between the intelligence of the police investigation and the prosecution.
en: enquête
knife
noun
A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
Example: The client's last hospital admission followed a knife attack on a neighbour who formed part of the client's delusions.
en: couteau
law
noun
The system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Example: According to this law, all idle or under worked land had to be rented at legally established rates (Deere et al., 1985).
en: loi
policeman
noun
A member of a police force.
Example: The patrol car taking Emma home had been crashed into by a black VW Beetle, leaving one policeman seriously injured, and Emma nowhere to be seen.
