My name is Maggie Belisle, and I have created a glossary about Police Technology, because it's my field of study. I've been studying Police Technology since August 2019 and will be for another two years. I have chosen this topic for my glossary, because it's a glossary to help future officers to speak well in English, with the proper words and to facilitate the access of police words. So, I want you to read the glossary, the definitions of each word and to listen to the word to help you with the pronunciation.
Sources: I used Google and the Actively Engaged Online book.
Accused
noun
A person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime.
Example: The irony of such an approach however, is that chief among criticisms of Bachrach and Baratz is that, just as they argue Dahl ignores the agenda setting process, so they are accused for neglecting the means by which preferences are shaped.
fr: Accusé
autopsy
A postmortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease.
Example: Upon the death of the patient an autopsy showed a severe lesion to the frontal lobe of the brain.
fr: autopsie
bailiff
noun
A bailiff is an official in a court of law who deals with tasks such as keeping control in court.
[US]
fr: huissier
charge
noun
Accuse someone of an offense under law.
fr: accusation
clue
noun
A piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery.
Example: Indeed it appears there has been sufficient selective pressure for the adaptation of 'vocal grooming' to arise, which could provide a clue to the evolutionary origins of human language.
fr: indice
coroner
noun
An official who examines the reasons for a person's death, especially if it was violent or unexpected.
fr: coroner
criminal
noun
A person who has committed a crime.
Example: This assessment should cover psychiatric, psychological and social functioning, risk to the individual and others, including previous violence and criminal record.
fr: criminel
delinquency
noun
Minor crime, especially that committed by young people.
Example: However, despite Beier's comments that there was large-scale juvenile delinquency in London, there does not seem to have been large-scale gangs of problematic youths in London.
fr: délinquance
drug
noun
A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
Example: The story relates his descent into the criminal and drug underworld.
fr: drogue
evidence
noun
The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
Example: Therefore with evidence of failed integration of this kind Wilkinson will risk loosing employees.
fr: preuve
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.
fr: otage
investigation
noun
A searching inquiry for ascertaining facts; detailed or careful examination.
fr: enquête
jail
noun
A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
Example: This samba's going to end in jail'.
fr: prison
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: As atheistic followers of Hegel, Marx and Engels thus came to believe that 'the struggle against existing wrong and prevalent evil, is also rooted in the universal law of eternal development'.
fr: loi
murder
noun
The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Example: Homicide (murder) rates among black males more than doubled between1960 and 1990, and in general, violence has become the way of life for many black males.
fr: meurtre
oath
noun
A solemn promise, often invoking a divine witness, regarding one's future action or behavior.
fr: serment
offense
noun
A breach of a law or rule; an illegal act.
Example: Due to the immense pressure the caregiver is under, elder abuse is not uncommon; in fact physical abuse by trusted caregivers is among the most common type of violent offense experienced by older adults (Payne, 2002).
fr: infraction
police raid
A visit by police or other law-enforcement officers - often in the early morning or late at night, with the aim of using the element of surprise in an attempt to arrest suspects believed to be likely to hide evidence, resist arrest, be politically sensitive, or simply be elsewhere during the day.
fr: descente de police
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.
fr: radar
robbery
noun
The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.
Example: I sat with Judge during two cases, the first, R v F , involved intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 and the second, R v H , involved a street robbery of an elderly woman.