Nothingness creates you,
Nothingness retakes you,
Leave nothing behind.
Ack. Veronica Micle
Romanian Poet (1850-1889)
NOTES
ACC - Assistant Chief Constable
ARV - Armed Response Vehicle
Binbagged - thrown out of house, clothes in a binbag
Bobby/Bobbies - British name for Police Officers
Bod - short for body - a person
Buck - person engaged in criminal activities
Con Requires - Officer requires immediate assistance
CSI - Crime Scene Investigator
DC - Detective Constable
DCI - Detective Chief Inspector
DI - Detective Inspector
Do one - Leave or go
DS - Detective Sergeant
DSU - Dedicated Surveillance Unit
Fantasy Island - Police Headquarters
FME - Forensic Medical Examiner
Heads up - bring to one’s attention relevant info
Jacks - Liverpool police term for Detectives
Jigger - Small narrow alley
Kávé - Hungarian for coffee
Lancs County - Lancashire Constabulary
Liszt Ferenc - Budapest Airport
Matrix - Anti-organised crime unit
Met - Metropolitan Police
MISPER - Missing person system
MI5 - Security Service (UK counter-intel/security)
MI6 - Secret Intelligence Service (foreign intel)
M.O. - Modus Operandi (method of operating)
MOD - Ministry of Defence
NCA - National Crime Agency
NICHE - Electronic case management system
Nick - slang term for Police Station
Oppo - opposite number- colleague or friend
PCC - Police and Crime Commissioner
PCSO - Police Community Support Officer
Plainies - Plain clothes- civilian clothing
Recce - reconnaissance
RV - Rendezvous- meet at agreed time and place
SAS – pron. Sass – St. Anne St Police Station
SB - Special Branch (political security)
Skip tracing -‘art’ of locating absent debtors
Scoff - Food
SIO - Senior Investigating Officer
Sitrep - Situation Report
Ton - in money terms £100
Traka - Secure key management system