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  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Priority 1 represents an Emergency call. (Response time target is to attend to 90% of emergency calls within 15 minutes) Priority 2 represents an Urgent call. Use of lights authorised and siren allowed only when passing through heavy traffic and clearing intersections. (Response time target is to attend to 90% of urgent calls within 25 minutes)

  3. Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment - Wikipedia

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    Response: The officer uses the information to create and implement and response. Assessment: The response's effectiveness is evaluated. Results of the assessment can be used to inform to revise the response in the future. Eck and Spelman identified the "Analysis" stage as the most important of the four stages. [3]

  4. Free response question - Wikipedia

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    Free response tests are a relatively effective test of higher-level reasoning, as the format requires test-takers to provide more of their reasoning in the answer than multiple choice questions. [4] Students, however, report higher levels of anxiety when taking essay questions as compared to short-response or multiple choice exams.

  5. Police code - Wikipedia

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    A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include " 10 codes " (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes , or other ...

  6. Vigilantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851 and reorganized in 1856 in response to rampant crime and corruption in San Francisco, California. The need for extralegal intervention was apparent with the explosive population growth following the discovery of gold in 1848.

  7. Vigilantism - Wikipedia

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    Offense: Vigilantism is a response to a perceived crime or violation of an authoritative norm; Other scholars have defined "collective vigilantism" as "group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community." [2] Les Johnston argues that vigilantism has six necessary components: [3] it is planned or premeditated; it is carried out by ...

  8. Roll call (policing) - Wikipedia

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    In police jargon, a roll call is a briefing "where supervisors take attendance, inspect uniform and equipment, inform the oncoming shift of any outstanding incidents that may have occurred, inform officers of suspects to be looking out for, relate any law or procedural changes, and so on."

  9. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    A standard message form for use by all police departments. A simple code for service dispatches relating to corrections, repetitions, etc. A standard arrangement of the context of messages, (for example, name and description of missing person might be transmitted as follows: Name, age, height, weight, physical characteristics, clothing; if car ...