Police Technology Glossary
Police Technology Glossary
I'm in Police Technology and I made this glossary that contains words related to this field. It will help police officers and future police officers who do not know what some specific words mean in English. There are 20 words and all we need to know about thees are mentioned. I made it with the Virtual Writing Tutor and I found the words in the book "Actively Engaged Online" at pages 309 to 314.
- accused
- noun
- A person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime.
- Example: The accused was ordered to stand a trial on a number of charges.
- en: accusé(e)
- arrest
- verb
- Seize (someone) by legal authority and take into custody.
- Example: The police arrested him for possession of marijuana.
- en: arrêter
- bulletproof vest
- noun
- A vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet.
- Example: The police officer put his bulletproof vest to protect himself.
- en: gilet pare-balles
- clue
- noun
- A piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery.
- Example: Police officers are still searching for clues.
- en: indice
- court
- noun
- A tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
- Example: She will take the matter to court.
- en: cour
- criminal
- noun
- A person who has committed a crime.
- Example: These men are dangerous criminals.
- en: criminel/criminelle
- discretionary power
- noun
- A power that police office have that allows them to remain silence.
- Example: They exercised their discretionary power for a purposes other than the one they were granted.
- en: pouvoir discrétionnaire
- drug
- noun
- A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
- Example: He was arrested with 5 kilograms of drug.
- en: drogue
- hostage
- noun
- A person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.
- Example: Three hostages were released but only after their families paid an estimated $200,000 to the guerrillas.
- en: otage
- investigation
- noun
- The action of investigating something or someone; formal or systematic examination or research.
- Example: He is under investigation for receiving illicit funds.
- en: investigation
- jail
- noun
- A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
- Example: He served 15 months in jail.
- en: prison
- killer
- noun
- A person who kills.
- Example: Police are still searching for the killer.
- en: tueur
- law
- noun
- The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
- Example: They were taken to court for breaking the law.
- en: loi
- motive
- noun
- A reason which urges somebody to commit this crime.
- Example: He mentioned the motive of his crime.
- en: motif
- murder
- noun
- The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
- Example: The murder of her mother appeared in the news the next morning.
- en: meurtre
- peper spray
- noun
- An aerosol spray containing oils derived from cayenne pepper, irritating to the eyes and respiratory passages and used as a disabling weapon.
- Example: He uses his pepper spray to make the crowd steps back.
- en: vaporisateur de poivre
- plea of guilty
- noun
- A statement by an alleged offender that they have committed the offence with which they are charged.
- Example: He chooses the plea of guilty of the crime he was accused of.
- en: plaidoyer de culpabilité
- 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: The speed of the car is detected by the radar of the police officer.
- en: radar
- robbery
- noun
- The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.
- Example: He was involved in drugs, extortion, and robbery.
- en: vol
- victim
- noun
- A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.
- Example: The victim is interviewed by the investigator.
- en: victime
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