Hi! My name is Florence, and it is my second year in Police Technology at Ahuntsic College. This glossary will help me and other students who are in the same program as me to learn more about the policing words.
arrest
noun
The action of seizing someone to take into custody.
Example: Indeed, a crime gives the obligation to a government to arrest the suspects and bring them to trial without using deadly forces.
en: arrestation
autopsy
noun
A postmortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
Example: Dr hopes dies of pneumonia so that an autopsy will not be mandatory.
en: autopsie
bulletproof vest
noun phrase
A vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet.
Example: The criminal shot the police officer in his bulletproof vest.
en: gilet pare-balles
court
noun
A tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
Example: Nonetheless, 'the most detailed information we have about ordinary marriages comes from the histories of marriages that went seriously wrong and ended up in court'.
en: tribunal
criminal
noun
A person who has committed a crime.
Example: What adds to the difficulty is to catch the criminal, it may that the criminal is in another country. It's not easy task to find the criminal as from which part in the world that criminal is doing cyber terrorism.
en: criminel
declaration
noun
A formal or explicit statement or announcement.
Example: He discusses how political language is invented in order to separate its meaning from its declaration.
en: déclaration
discretionary power
noun phrase
The ability to make decisions based on personal judgment or choice.
Example: It was held that the local education authority had a statutory duty to consider educational needs; considering additional criteria would downgrade this statutory duty to a discretionary power.
en: pouvoir discrétionnaire
emergency vehicle lighting
noun phrase
Visual warning lights fitted to a vehicle to convey the urgency of a journey when moving, to provide additional warning of a hazard when stationary, or to signal another driver to stop.
Example: The emergency vehicle lighting are on when the police officers are going on a call.
en: éclairage de secours pour véhicule
hit-and-run
adjective
A motor accident in which the vehicle involved does not stop.
Example: A moving car did a hit-and-run after hitting another car on the highway.
en: délit de fuite
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.
en: otage
investigation
noun
A formal inquiry or systematic study.
Example: It will be assumed that all these aspects are relevant to an investigation of Hellenistic Athens but the primary focus of this essay will be the urban landscape.
en: enquête
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: The 1986 act also incorporated the changed law about security of farm tenure between family generations.
en: loi
motive
noun
A reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious.
Example: An excellent service is provided when maximizing profit is not the main motive.
en: motif
offense
noun
A breach of a law or rule; an illegal act.
Example: He found Guicciardini's style difficult to comprehend - 'I do not believe that anyone can read this history without taking offense at the great scrambling of events.".
en: infraction
plea of guilty
noun phrase
A statement by an alleged offender that they have committed the offence with which they are charged.
en: plaidoyer de culpabilité
release
verb
Allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free.
Example: In fact, the only prospect of freedom that gladiators had was that if he "survived for three years, he was offered the wooden sword of release, if for five, the cap of manumission.".
en: libérer
robbery
noun
The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.
Example: Due to the lack of force used to actually attempt to acquire the 'phone (the force used was entirely independent of this act), I think it unlikely that attempted robbery would be the charge.
en: vol
trial
noun
A formal examination of evidence before a judge, and typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings.
Example: She is awaiting trial on charges of assault.
en: procès
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: One of the main enforcement powers established through the Competition Act 1998 was the power to enter business premises without or under a warrant.
en: mandat
witness
noun
A person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place.
Example: Clear indicators of the growing influence of liberal internationalism in world politics exist: briefly, we witness a proliferation of free trade agreements worldwide and an increasing weight of international multilateral political organizations.
