Thursday, October 15, 2015

Police Technology Glossary

Criminal : A person charged with and convicted of crime.

Discretionary power : A power that police office have that allows them to remain silence.

Drug : Illegal chemical substance that changes the state of a normal person, which often creates a dependency.

Handcuffs : A pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists.

Hit-and-run : Denoting or relating to a motor accident in which the vehicle involved does not stop.   

Hostage : A person seized or held as security for the fulfillment of a condition.

Jail : Where criminals go to serve their sentences.

Nightstick : A police officers club or billy.

Police Academy :  An academy for training police officers.

Punishment : The fact of being punished, as for an offense or fault.

Suspect : Somebody whom we suspect of having made a crime.

Vandalism : Deliberately mischievous or malicious destruction or damage to property.

Victim : A victim is a person who undergoes a crime.

Youth : A person under the age of 18.



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