Police Technology Glossary
The Police Technology Glossary
My name is Elisabeth, and I am in Police Technology. With this glossary, you will be able to be more friendly with words related to the police. To find the definition of a word, I use an online dictionary.
- Traffic break
- noun
- A traffic break is any separation in the flow of traffic—naturally occurring or otherwise—along a road or highway.
- Example: We need to do a traffic break to slow the circulation while we are cleaning something on the road.
- fr: Interruption de la circulation
- Bulletproof vest
- Noun
- A vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet.
- Example: A police officer in function is always wearing bulletproof vests to protect himself.
- fr: Gilet pare-balles
- Exhibit
- Noun
- A document or other object produced in a court as evidence.
- Example: You can use an exhibit to prove a crime.
- fr: Pièce à conviction
- Traffic ticket
- Noun
- A traffic ticket is a notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist or other road user, indicating that the user has violated traffic laws.
- Example: If you are driving too fast, you can have a traffic ticket.
- fr: Contravention
- Witnesses
- Noun
- A person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.
- Example: As previously mentioned, public executions may have had thousands of WITNESSES, all present at such brazen displays of ritual and symbolic gesture.
- fr: Témoins
- Jail
- Noun
- A place for the confinement of people's accused or convicted of a crime.
- Example: This samba's going to land in JAIL.
- fr: Prison
- Legislator
- Noun
- A person who makes laws; a member of a legislative body.
- Example: The legislator has adopted a new law.
- fr: Législateur
- Taser
- Noun
- A weapon firing barbs attached by wires to batteries, causing temporary paralysis.
- Example: Some police officers have a taser.
- fr: Pistolet à impulsion électrique
- Assailant
- Noun
- A person who physically attacks another.
- Example: For although an anti-war pacifist may come to the aid of the old lady by means of direct violence against her ASSAILANT, he must argue against the case of military intervention to prevent mass human rights violations.
- fr: Agresseur
- Attorney
- Noun
- A lawyer.
- Example: Technically the Portuguese crown had established an ATTORNEY-general under whose jurisdiction came all matters relating to the treatment of slaves and fines were placed upon those who neglected them, however the efficiency of these charges are unknown.
- fr: Avocat
- Court
- Noun
- A tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
- Example: You must go to the court for your trial.
- fr: Tribunal
- Coroner
- Noun
- An official who investigates violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths.
- Example: For example, a CORONER's decision not to resume inquests into the deaths caused by a sinking ship was quashed due to his description of the bereaved parent's as "unhinged" and "mentally unwell".
- fr: Coroner
- Robber
- Noun
- A person who commits robbery.
- Example: This means that everyone from a highly dangerous, professional bank-ROBBER, to a young teenager committing an impulsive 'bag-snatch' will be labelled equally.
- fr: Voleur
- Anti riot
- Noun
- Intended to prevent or control a riot (numerous people behaving in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way in public).
- Example: We need an anti riot for the manifestation.
- fr: Anti-émeute
- Handcuff
- Noun
- A pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists.
- Example: I need the handcuffs to handcuff the criminal.
- fr: Menottes
- Incident report
- Noun
- Thorough documentation of the incident, including all relevant details that caused it and any outcomes that stemmed from it.
- Example: After the car accident, you need to fill the incident report.
- fr: Rapport d'incident
- Bailiff
- Noun
- An official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc.
- Example: To seize property, you need the bailiff.
- fr: Huissier
- Rotating beacon
- Noun
- A light assembly used to create a fixed or flashing signal visible over long distances.
- Example: When you get arrested, the rotating beacon are on.
- fr: Gyrophare
- Fingerprint
- Noun
- An impression or mark made on a surface by a person's fingertip, especially as used for identifying individuals from the unique pattern of whorls and lines.
- Example: For your criminal record, we need your fingerprints.
- fr: Empreinte digitale
- Testifying
- Verb
- Give evidence as a witness in a law court.
- Example: During a trial, the witnesses can testify.
- fr: Témoigner
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