Police Technology Glossary

Hi, my name is Vladimir Barbeau-Moreau. I live in Sainte-Adele. I have been studying Police Technology for two semesters at Ahuntsic College. The glossary that I have made could be useful for future students in this field of study. It can also be helpful for the ones that are already studying Police Technology of even for the new police officers that don't know all the ins-and-outs of their job. Obviously, each word has been chosen for the specific reason that they are all used by the policemen when they are doing their shift. In other words, all the terms explained in my glossary will become part of your daily life if you plan to be a police officer. Most of the words chose are unfamiliar to non-experts. Then, you could learn a lot about Police Technology and the terms used by a police officer just by learning the meaning of these words. All the definitions come from Oxford Languages.

alibi

noun

A claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.

Example: But Marie is quickly ticked off the list of suspects, when her ALIBI proves convincing to the police.

fr: alibi

bulletproof

adjective

That can stop bullets from passing through it

Example: Scientists believe that spider silk could be applied to things such as, BULLETPROOF clothing, ropes and biodegradable bottles.

fr: blindé

clue

noun

A piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery.

Example: Tone As the authors themselves say in the introduction to the book - in case the title wasn't an obvious CLUE - they felt "a certain brio" about this project.

fr: indice

corruption

noun

Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

Example: Understanding Smith's social philosophy helps us to better grasp our contemporary situation, perhaps most pertinently the relation of commercial practices and the moral life of society and increasing wide-spread moral CORRUPTION, amongst individuals and institutions.

fr: corruption

evidence

noun

The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

Example: It would be illogical to suggest that the Guardian's report is caused by the Times' one but the latter would however provide good EVIDENCE for the former, behaviour could still give clues to a person's qualia.

fr: preuve

handcuffs

noun

A pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists.

Example: Losing control, Jack knocks Sarah unconscious, HANDCUFFS her, and calls for help.

fr: menottes

hooliganism

noun

Violent or rowdy behavior by young troublemakers, typically in a gang.

Example: Boys are more likely to engage in petty theft, vandalism, football HOOLIGANISM, mugging and riot behaviour (Muncie 1989 :62) whilst for girls 'crimes' are more likely to include running away from home, breaking curfew rules and unruly behaviour (Chesney-Lind and Pasko 2004 :3).

fr: vandalisme

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.

fr: otage

killer

noun

A person or thing that kills.

Example: Colin Platt suggests that 'it was famine not plague, after 1349, that remained the biggest KILLER' in more northern countries.

fr: tueur

murder

noun

The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.

Example: The Incas knew full well of their invaders: "The knowledge was mutual, of course, for the Spanish pillaging and MURDER along the coast had been angrily noted in the highlands."

fr: meurtre

radar

noun

A system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source.

Example: Scenario: A British company supplying specialised RADAR equipment to the Ministry of Defence is in the process of initiating an Enterprise IT Architecture project.

fr: radar

robbery

noun

The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.

Example: Is Sally there? - No, she's gone out ; The police have arrested two men in connection with the ROBBERY .

fr: vol

shadowing

verb

Follow and observe (someone) closely and secretly.

Example: He had been up all night SHADOWING a team of poachers.

fr: Prendre en filature

snitch

noun

An informer.

Example: They thought he was a plant or a SNITCH.

fr: mouchard

suspect

noun

A person thought to be guilty of a crime or offense.

Example: The first course of action an assigned case analyst takes when presented with paint which will often consist of two samples one a control taken by the SOCO from the scene of the incident and the second seized from the SUSPECT, is to decide if they are a visual match, if evident they are termed a metameric match. They next need to establish whether there is also a chemical match, achieved by taking a single layer of the SUSPECT flake and the control sample.

fr: suspect

terrorist

noun

A person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Example: There had been two TERRORIST attacks.

fr: terroriste

thief

noun

A person who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.

Example: Lambard argues that when a soldier returns from war he will be 'either an impudent beggar or an errant THIEF."

fr: voleur

victim

noun

A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.

Example: A DNA fingerprint maybe used to identify a suspect for conviction, to exclude a suspect 8 or to identify a VICTIM (see figure 5).

fr: victime

warrant

noun

A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or some other body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice.

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 .

fr: mandat

witness

noun

A person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.

Example: Before this point marriage could be legal simply through the saying of vows in front of a WITNESS; Laura Gowing points out that before 1753 the promise to marry followed by sex also constituted legal if irregular marriage.

fr: témoin

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