SOCIT – Serious and Organised Crime Investigation Team. This is the environment where you encounter men called Dave with broken noses and leather jackets who keep money in large rolls, run a scrap metal merchants and can get you a shooter to go with a kilo of coke. Effectively a note which tells you your future may well involve a court visit. It sends officers mad trying to get it to work. The police’s crime, intelligence and custody computer database.
Code zero meaning police driver#
WOA – Words Of Advice (“Sarge, we pulled the driver over who had a cow in the back seat of his Land Rover and, as it’s NFP we’ve given him WOA”). Effectively a fine handed to you by police.ĪIO – All In Order (“Sarge, I’ve check the house where the Demis Roussos was being played louder than a jet engine. As part of a cost-cutting exercise police helicopters were taken out of police force’s control and a single body was created to cover the country.įPN – Fixed Penalty Notice. No-one in the police thinks it is a good thing. This has been sold to the public by the Government as a good thing. Since bail has been hurled out the door by the Government, people are told they are not on bail, but they are RUI and can be arrested at any moment as inquiries continue. When police either cannot get the evidence to convince the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) to go for a charge, the case is dropped and the person is told there will be NFA. NFP – Normal For Plymouth (“Sarge, we found the naked bloke wearing a tutu, off his head on mushrooms and mumbling something about ‘Green Army’.” “Yes lad, that’s NFP”.) Invariably an Inspector rank officer who oversees all the live “critical” incidents going on in the area and makes the decisions which ensure these situations don’t get any worse. (“Well Sarge, could he at least repaint the fence he’s drawn a k**b on? The victim is okay with some RJ”)ĬIM - Critical Incident Manager.
Code zero meaning police code#
(“Can someone else go to that Sarge, I’m Code 4?”) When police have searched area for a suspect but there’s no trace of them.ĭL – Driving Licence (“Sarge, got a little green man here with what looks like a dodgy DL”)Ĭode 4 – a meal break. POLSA – Police Search Advisor – a specially-trained officer who advises on the best approach to carry out searches in Misper cases or suspected murders where bodies are yet to be found.Ĭode 11 – Off duty (“Sorry Sarge, I can’t attend that alien abduction, I’m Code 11 as of 10 minutes ago”)ĪSNT – Area Search No Trace. OIC – Officer In Case (“Right, Constable Crap-driver, you’re now the OIC on this abducted-by-alien complaint”).ĭad of baby twins found seriously injured at home jumps to his death from hotel after one dies in hospital (“Sorry Sarge, I think I may have reversed the riot van into your new Audi”). This will inevitably lead to the aforementioned driver having to purchase a large quantity of cakes for his laughing colleagues back at the station. Usually a road accident involving a police vehicle. Hence the phrase “snitches get stitches”. Known in common parlance as a “grass” or “snitch” who may eventually come to a violent end. Alternatively known in court as “an informant”. They spent several minutes interviewing staff at TK Maxx before being told over the radio they were in the wrong place.ĬHIS – Covert Human Intelligence Source. One officer admitted that in their early days on the job they were told to attend an incident at a “TK at Royal Parade”. These are officers who work closely with victims of serious crimes, such as the family of murder victims, or tragic deaths such as fatal road collisions.
They were then renamed the TSG – Territorial Support Group.įLO – Family Liaison Officer. They were heavily criticised following their policing of an Anti-Nazi League demonstration where a demonstrator was struck with a baton and died. The Metropolitan Police had a similar team called the SPG – Special Patrol Group. In Devon and Cornwall they are now called the FSG – Force Support Group. PSU - Police Support Unit is a team of officers trained in public order and are used in major incidents, support other officers and bashing in doors with the Big Red Key (see later). TWOC – Taking Without Owner's Consent (“Ere, bey, have you been done for twokking cars again?”) Misper – a Missing Person (“Sarge, is Lord Lucan still a misper?”) Because ‘accident’ implies there's nobody to blame.
RTC – Road Traffic Collision, which used to be RTA (Road Traffic Accident) until, as any Hot Fuzz film fan knows, vocab guidelines state police no longer refer to such incidents as ‘accidents’, they’re now collisions.
LOS – Lost or Stolen (“The car’s LOS, Sarge…”)ĬRO – Criminal Records Office or Criminal Record (“Sarge, he’s got a CRO) Pizza delivery boy faces 18 years in jail for 'spitting on customer's food while taking selfie' The official terms
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