This glossary is made for students who want to learn different words about the police industry. People who are seeing this glossary could use these words in a real conversation when they are going to be a real police officer. It's going to include 20 different words about policing and the job of a police officer. Now, you can explore this glossary and learn new words for the job.
autopsy
noun
Dissection of a body to determine the causes of death.
Example: Find out who can request an autopsy and how long it takes to get the results.
en: autopsie
bulletproof vest
noun phrase
A bulletproof 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: Find a variety of bulletproof vests for different levels of protection, sizes and styles at Bulletproof Zone.
en: gilet pare-balles
delinquency
noun
Minor crime, especially that committed by young people.
Example: She was picked up for delinquency when she was 14.
en: délinquance
discretionary power
noun phrase
A power that police office have that allows them to remain silence.
Example: This officer used his discretionary power for my speed ticket.
en: pouvoir discrétionnaire
emergency vehicle lighting
noun phrase
Emergency vehicle lighting is generally used to clear the right of way for emergency vehicles.
Example: The last police car that I've seen had his emergency vehicle light on.
en: lumière d'un véhicule d'urgence
evidence
noun
The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
Example: They had enough evidence to arrest him.
en: preuve
handcuffs
plural noun
A pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists.
Example: The man reluctantly held out his wrists so the policeman could snap on handcuffs.
en: menottes
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 philosophy.
en: otage
inmate
noun
A person confined to an institution such as a prison or hospital.
Example: A former Marine poses as an inmate inside a Mexican prison in order to infiltrate a gang suspected of kidnapping a U.S. judge's teen daughter.
en: détenu
jail
noun
A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
Example: He went to jail for a murder.
en: prison
nightstick
noun
A police officer's club or billy.
Example: Jurors in a Brooklyn corrections officer's sex-assault trial were fed with hearing about his large, odorous nightstick.
en: matraque
pepper spray
noun phrase
An aerosol spray containing oils derived from cayenne pepper spray, irritating to the eyes and respiratory passages and used as a disabling weapon.
Example: Although it shares the same ingredient as pepper spray, it can be more potent and is dispensed more forcefully.
en: poivre de cayenne
plea of guilty
noun phrase
The act with which you are charged is prohibited by law, that you committed the act, and that you have no defense or excuse for the act.
Example: A guilty plea should not be entered where the accused denies guilt.
en: plaidoyer de culpabilité
radar
noun
A system for detecting the speed.
Example: A British company supplying specialised RADAR equipment.
en: radar
reasonable doubt
phrase
A reasonable doubt is not a doubt based upon sympathy or prejudice and, instead, is based on reason and common sense.
Example: Criminal courts need to prove 'beyond REASONABLE DOUBT ' but in non-criminal proceedings sociology.
en: doute raisonnable
robbery
noun
The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.
Example: Imultaneously, and were subsequently convicted of ROBBERY their maximum sentence would be life.
en: vol
seizure
noun
The act or an instance of seizing
Example: In substance identification of areas such as drug SEIZURE Another example of the use of X-ray powde chemistry.
en: saisis
shadowing
verb
Action to follow and to observe secretly the movements, the actions of one or several individuals.
Example: An undercover cop got caught shadowing a suspect.
en: prendre en filature
snitch
noun
An informer.
Example: Getting institutionalised informers to SNITCH on any hint of subversive activity or thoug us_studies.
en: mouchard
warrant
noun
A commission or document giving authority to do something.
Example: Support an application to obtain a warrant to search the appellant’s residence.
