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Usually used in the United States to refer to federal law enforcement agencies, especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Marshals Service. Also used in Australia to refer to the Australian Federal Police, and in London as general slang for the Metropolitan Police Service. [23] Federales Spanish, the Mexican Federal ...
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General Use: Private Use: 10-40 Advise if Officer...available for radio call. Notification Silent run - No light or siren — 10-41 Tune to ... kcs. for test with mobile unit or emergency service. Car change at ... Beginning tour of duty 10-42 — Crew change at ... Ending tour of duty Off duty 10-43 Take school crossing Information — 10-44 —
A term used in some post-soviet countries to refer to a member of the secret police. Mukhabarat, Al-Amn: Arabic terms for "intelligence" and "security", the former is mainly used for foreign intelligence whereas the latter is used for domestic intelligence. Moscas Border Patrol Police. [11] Narc, Nark, Narq An informant or an undercover DEA ...
Acronym used in mathematics to remember the trigonometric functions sine, cosine, and tangent. ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement. NATO. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. OCONUS. Outside ...
In Australia, a similar, longer acronym for the all-points bulletin that is used by New South Wales and Victoria Police law enforcement is KALOF or KLO4 (for "keep a look-out for"). [4] Queensland used to use BOLF (be on the lookout for), and now, with Western Australia Police, use LOTBKF ('Look Out To Be Kept For'). [ 11 ]
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 ...
According to the Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement, the term "SWAT" was used as an acronym for the "Special Weapons and Tactics" established as a 100-man specialized unit in 1964 by the Philadelphia Police Department in response to an alarming increase in bank robberies. The purpose of this unit was to react quickly and decisively to ...