by Andrew Lowe
Andrew Lowe. London, 2019
Glossary
AFO – Authorised Firearms Officer. A UK police officer who has received training, and is authorised to carry and use firearms.
ANPR – Automatic Number Plate Recognition. A camera technology for automatically reading vehicle number plates.
Burner – A no-contract, pre-paid mobile phone. Usually a cheap handset which is disposable and difficult to trace.
CCRC – Criminal Cases Review Commission. Independent organisation which investigates suspected miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
COD – cause of death. Police acronym.
CROP – Covert Rural Observation Post. A camouflaged surveillance operation, mostly used to detect or monitor criminal activity in rural areas.
EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. An interactive psychotherapy technique used to relieve psychological stress, particularly trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
FLO – Family Liaison Officer. A specially trained officer or police employee who provides emotional support to the families of crime victims and gathers evidence and information to assist the police enquiry.
FOA – First Officer Attending. Police acronym for the first officer to arrive at a crime scene.
FSI – Forensic Science Investigator. Police acronym for an employee of the Scientific Services Unit, usually deployed at a crime scene to gather forensic evidence.
HOLMES – Home Office Large Major Enquiry System. An IT database system used by UK police forces for the investigation of major incidents.
IDENT1 – The UK’s central national database for holding, searching and comparing biometric information on those who come into contact with the police as detainees after arrest.
MIT – Murder/Major Investigation Team. A specialised squad of detectives who investigate cases of murder, manslaughter, and attempted murder.
Misper – missing person. Police slang.
NDNAD – National DNA Database. Administered by the Home Office in the UK.
NHSBT – NHS Blood and Transplant. A division of the UK National Health Service, dedicated to blood, organ and tissue donation.
OP – Observation Point. Police acronym. The officer/observer locations in a surveillance operation.
Osman Warning – A warning of a death threat or high risk of murder issued by UK police, usually when there is intelligence of the threat but an arrest can’t yet be carried out or justified.
PAVA – Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide. Key component in an incapacitant spray dispensed from a handheld canister. Causes eye closure and severe pain.
PAYG – Pay As You Go. A no-contract system for mobile phone use. Data is paid for as required, rather than purchased on a monthly basis.
PM – post-mortem. Also known as an autopsy. The examination of a body by a pathologist in order to determine the cause of death.
PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. An anxiety disorder caused by stressful, frightening or distressing events.
RIPA – Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. UK Act of Parliament which regulates the powers of public bodies to carry out surveillance and investigation. Introduced to take account of technological change such as the grown of the internet and data encryption.
Section 17 – An element of the UK Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) that gives the police power to enter and search premises without a warrant, in order to “save life or limb” or prevent serious damage to property.
SIO – Senior Investigating Officer. Police acronym. The detective who heads an enquiry and is ultimately responsible for personnel management and tactical decisions.
The Streisand effect – A phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicising the information more widely. Named after US entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 effort to suppress photographs of her home inadvertently drew public attention to it.
TOD – time of death. Police acronym.
TRiM – Trauma Risk Management. Trauma-focused peer support system designed to assess and support employees who have experienced a traumatic, or potentially traumatic, event.
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