Police Jargon

[cartman]

I never watched the show "Recruits" on the Ten Network but noticed on their website a comprehensive list of police jargon

http://ten.com.au/recruits-the-police.htm


Glossary of Terms

On the Job

Double Beepers: Referring to 2 beeps going off on the radio – These precede urgent or pressing jobs for example stabbing, brawl or break and enter in progress.
Triple beeper (or Signal one): police are at risk and need urgent assistance. All available police to attend locationTriple beeper (or Signal one): police are at risk and need urgent assistance. All available police to attend location
Code Red: Highest level of response in police vehicle lights and sirens
Code Blue: vehicle responding immediately enroute. No lights or sirens within speed limit
Urgent Duty: Lights and sirens (code red) must be Silver or gold police classification. Probationers unable to do urgent duty as they are bronze classification
KLO4: Radio talk – Keep a look out for
Copy: Radio talk to confirm you have understood a job call or command
GD’s: General Duties
LAC: Local Area Command
Priority 2: High priority job
POI: Person of Interest
VOI: Vehicle of interest
OC Spray: Oleoresin Capsicum Spray
Appointments: the gear that hangs off the appointment belt, the pistol, OC spray, torch, expandable baton.
PROBIE: probationary constables
HOOKS: rank stripes on shoulder epaulette
FTO: field training officer, who become the first ‘buddy’ to the Probies when they start
CNI check: Central Names Index (check) which is the police database that lists all information on anyone who have had contact with police
SOCOs: Scene of Crime Officers
POINT DUTY: traffic control
GLOCK: Glock – Service Pistol for General duties Police - Glock Model 22 Self Loading Pistol. Contains 15 rounds of (.40 Smith and Wesson calibre) ammunition
PORS: Public Order and Riot Squad.
‘Calling on, Calling off...’: Tells VKG when a team leaves their car to attend an incident and when they return to the car from that incident.



NSW Police College
E & TC: Education and Training Command
ADPP: Associate Degree in Policing Practice – the degree our Recruits receive once graduated.
ADPP33 class motto: “I will stand forth courageous”. Each class has a different motto. This is the motto of the Student Recruits Goulburn featured.
NSWPF: New South Wales Police Force
PFS: Police Filming Supervisor
PAB: Public Affairs Branch
CCU: Corporate Communications Unit
LAC: Local Area Command
OIC: Officer in Charge
NOK: Next of Kin
DE: Distance Education – students are able to study session 1 away from Goulburn
SOPS: Standard Operating Procedures
OS: Officer Safety
PDT: Police Driver Training
PET: Protective Equipment Training
PHQ: Police Headquarters
CSU: Charles Sturt University
Phonetic alphabet: used over police radio to spell names, number plates etc



Subjects/Study Areas at Police College

DT: Defensive Tactics
HLS: Healthy Lifestyles (basically the physical fitness training)
SPAC: Simulated Policing a Acquiring Confidence (Session One)
Simulated Policing a Acquiring Competence (Session 2)
PCT: Physical Capacity Testing
WTTU: Weapons and Tactics Training Unit



Corporate Terminology

ACLO: Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer
CEP: Constable Education Program - 2 year university course conducted at Police Academy by Academy and Charles Sturt University
CET: Commissioner’s Executive Team
CIDAP: Criminal Investigation & Detectives Advisory Panel
CoP: Commissioner of Police
COPS: Computerised Operational Policing System
CPO: Crime prevention officer
CPEA: Child Protection Enforcement Agency
CSO: Community safety officer
DCoP: Deputy Commissioner
DEOCON: District Emergency Operations Controller (normally Region Commander)
DO: Duty Officer
DOI: Duty Operations Inspector (at VKG)
DoCS: Department of Community Services
DVLO: Domestic violence liaison officer
ECLO: Ethnic community liaison officer
EDO: Education and development officer
FOCS: Firearms & Organised Crime Squad
FIO: Field intelligence officer
FIOs: Field intelligence officers
FSG: Forensic Services Group
GDs: General duties police
GLO: Gay & Lesbian Liaison Officer
HWP: Highway patrol
HVP: High visibility policing
JIRTS: Joint Investigative Response Teams (Police & DOCS working together)
LAC: Local area command (police stations in local area)
LEOCON: Local emergency operations controller (usually LAC commander)
LEPRA: Law Enforcement Police (Powers & Responsibilities) Act
OCR: Operations & Crime Review - administered by Organisational Review & Support
PA: Public Affairs
PAL: Police Assistance Line
PEO: Police Executive Offices, 201 Elizabeth St Sydney
PHQ: Police Headquarters – Avery Building
PORS: Public Order & Riot Squad
PMU: Police Media Unit
PSC: Professional Standards Command
PW: Police Weekly [NEW TITLE]
SCC: State Crime Command
SAC-PAV: Standing Advisory Committee - Protection Against Violence
SEOCON: State emergency operations controller (usually Deputy Commissioner)
SPC: Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills
SPG: State Protection Group
STAMP: School of Traffic & Mobile Policing – Goulburn Academy
RES: Region Enforcement Squads
VKG: Police radio
VIKINGS: High visibility policing operation
YLO: Youth Liaison Officer
MEOCs: Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad
MAC: Marine Area Command
UC's: Undercover (operatives)
TSB: Traffic Services Branch
CTST: Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics
STIB: State Technical Investigation Branch
TIB: Telephone Intercept Branch
TOU: Tactical Operations Unit
POLAIR: Police Airwing

[SKEYGEN]

Some of the stuff they gave Channel 10 is a bit old. SAC-PAV hasn't existed for almost a decade, the National Counter Terrorism Committee (NCTC) replaced it around 2002.

Both are senior level forums anyway (as in, Commonwealth SES band 1 / deputy commissioner / equivalent), so the chances of either being mentioned on air by operational police are close to 0.

[matthewn1983]

Listening to a few police channels over here, Rotorua and Tauranga. They very much sound like the comms heard in both Sydney and Brisbane, jobs are given out over the radio, or via Job # like in Brisbane.

[centralcoastscanman]

Some of the stuff they gave Channel 10 is a bit old. SAC-PAV hasn't existed for almost a decade, the National Counter Terrorism Committee (NCTC) replaced it around 2002.

Both are senior level forums anyway (as in, Commonwealth SES band 1 / deputy commissioner / equivalent), so the chances of either being mentioned on air by operational police are close to 0.

yeah agree, and if you look up the callsigns stuff the police have on their intranet it even lists or used to list the nsw premier as having a callsign... really can you see barry o'farrell using a police radio ? The cops would more likely wanna throw it at home rather than let him use it for how he is screwing them over

[cartman]

Security 3 was the Premiers escort car callsign if i remember correctly

Grant

[SKEYGEN]

Found another one.

PHQ: Police Headquarters – Avery Building

They moved from the Avery Building on College St to Parramatta in 2004.

Sure does look like someone at NSWPF grabbed some corporate dictionary thing off an old intranet page, got the OK for media release and handed it straight to Ten

[centralcoastscanman]

yep exactly, but gotta say thank you channel ten for not putting police recruits back on as that was the biggest load of crap ever it only showed the positive side to life at the academy. It was obviously designed by the PR department to try and increase police recruitment