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Allotment – large garden area on
which people grow plants, usually vegetables |
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Briefing - giving instructions, or information
that is needed to do a job. |
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Byelaws – local rules usually made
for specific places by local authorities |
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Burglary – Going into a building
where you are not allowed in order to steal |
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Bullying – one person threatening
or frightening another person or teasing that upsets the other |
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Call sign – a code used to identify
a person using a radio that does not use their name |
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CCTV - closed circuit television is used
on major roads or town centres. They allow trouble to be spotted
quickly. |
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Chemist – pharmacist |
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CID - Criminal Investigation Department,
the detectives in the British police |
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Common - an area of open land belonging
to a town or village |
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Community Beat Officer - the local Police
Officer responsible for working in a specific area or beat.
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Complexion - the colour and texture of
a person’s skin |
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Control room - the place at Police Headquarters,
where the Police receive ail the information about incidents
in the local area, and then send out instructions to the Police
Officers to deal with them. |
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Crime - something that is against the
law |
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Crime analyst – a person who works
for the police who studies reported crime to see if there
are patterns that would help solve the crimes. |
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Criminal - a person who has broken the
law |
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Dog Warden – a person employed by
the Local Authority to collect stray dogs and involved in
looking after dogs. |
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Duty Inspector - an inspector is a senior
officer in the police force and the Duty Inspector organises
the team of police who are dealing with an incident |
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Evidence - information that can be proved
against an offender |
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Fire Engine – A name used for a
fire appliance a vehicle used to carry fire fighters to an
incident with their equipment |
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Fined – having to pay money for
doing something wrong |
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Fingerprints – the mark left on
something that has been touched by a person from the lines
on their fingers no two people have the same pattern |
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Fire Officer – The person in charge
of a group of fire fighters |
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Hoax – telling of something that
is not true |
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HQ - short for headquarters, the centre
of the police organisation for an area |
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Incident – Something that is happening |
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Incident Room – a room set up control
a special event, where all communications come to and are
sent on from |
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Local authorities - locally elected councils
responsible for some local services. |
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Manager – person in charge |
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Market trader – a person selling
something from a market stall |
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Moped – small motorcycle with a
50cc engine |
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Neighbourhood - a small area where people
live |
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Neighbourhood Watch - a scheme where people
living in the same area agree to observe everyone’s
houses and the local streets in order to prevent crime |
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Offence - another name for a crime. |
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Offender - another name for a criminal
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Overleaf - the other side of the paper |
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PC - abbreviation of Police Constable,
a law enforcement officer in the UK |
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Primary school - a school in the English
education system, which takes children up to the age of 11 |
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Registration number - the letters and
numbers that make up the number plate of a car, lorry, or
other vehicle. |
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Regulations – another name for rules |
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Robbery – Hitting a person or threatening
to hit them in order to steal |
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Scenes of crime officer – a person
working for the police who checks the places a crime has been
committed for information that may help solve the crime such
as fingerprints. |
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Sergeant – a police officers rank.
The sergeant supervises PC’s, but is under the Inspector |
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Shop link – a system usually using
local radio through which shops in the same town can talk
to each other about incidents |
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Skip – a large container in which
to collect rubbish before taking it away |
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Spent firework – the container that
remains after a firework has been used |
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Statement - a piece of writing signed
by a witness telling the police what he or she saw |
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Steal – taking something that does
not belong to the person taking and without the permission
of the owner. |
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Suspect - someone who is thought to have
committed a crime, but without any real evidence |
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Theft – A legal word for stealing,
taking something with no right to do so |
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Vandalised - damaged caused by someone
who should not have done it vehicle - a car, lorry or other
form of transport found on a road |
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Vehicle - a car, lorry, or other form
of transport found on a road. |
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Vulnerable - at risk of coming to harm |
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Warrant card - a card that shows the identity
of a Police Officer.
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