A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, especially a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.
Example: She has an alibi for the whole of yesterday evening.
en: alibi
badge
noun
A distinctive emblem worn as a mark of office, membership, achievement, licensed employment, etc.
Example: Officers wear a badge to represent their identity.
en: badge
bulletproof vest
noun
A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or a bullet-resistant vest, is an item of body armour that helps absorb the impact and reduce or stop penetration to the torso by firearm-fired projectiles and fragmentation from explosions.
Example: One was saved by a bulletproof vest after being struck in the abdomen.
en: gilet pare-balles
Canadian Criminal Code
noun
The Criminal Code is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada. Its official long title is An Act respecting the Criminal Law, and it is sometimes abbreviated as Cr.C. in legal reports.
Example: Police officer implicates the law from Canadian Criminal Code
en: Code criminel canadien
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.
en: indice
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.
en: tribunal
Crime scene
noun
The place where an offense has been committed and forensic evidence may be gathered.
Example: Fingerprints left at a crime scene.
en: Scène de crime
crowd control
noun
Crowd control is a public security practice in which large crowds are managed in order to prevent the outbreak of crowd crushes, affray, fights involving drunk and disorderly people or riots. Crowd crushes in particular can cause many hundreds of fatalities.
Example: Luckily, greyhound racing suffers little or no problems with crowd control.
en: contrôle des foules
detective
noun
A person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
Example: A person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
en: détective
drug
noun
A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
Example: A new drug aimed at sufferers from Parkinson's disease.
en: drogue
Gun
noun
A weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.
en: Pistolet
gunshot wound
noun
A gunshot wound is caused when a bullet or other projectile is shot into or through the body.
Example: Both victims died of gunshot wounds to the head from a . 22-caliber gun.
en: blessure par balle
handcuffs
noun
A pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists.
Example: He was led into court handcuffed to a policeman.
en: menottes
investigation
noun
The action of investigating something or someone; formal or systematic examination or research.
Example: He is under investigation for receiving illicit funds.
en: enquête
jail
noun
A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
Example: He served 15 months in jail.
en: prison
Miranda warning
noun
In the United States, the Miranda warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence and, in effect, protection from self-incrimination; that is, their right to refuse to answer questions or provide information to law enforcement or other officials.
Example: After, an arrestation, police officer announced the Miranda warning to delinquent person.
en: Avertissement Miranda
Police car
noun
A car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters. synonyms: cruiser, patrol car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car.
en: Voiture de police
Police man
noun
A member of a police force.
Example: The policeman walked along the street, shining a torch into every car.
en: Policier
police uniform
noun
A uniform is a special set of clothes which some people, for example soldiers or the police, wear to work.
Example: He was one of the worst men, if not the worst man, who ever disgraced a police uniform.
en: uniforme de police
to arrest
verb
Seize (someone) by legal authority and take into custody.
Example: The police arrested him for possession of marijuana.
