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Theo B. Rood. Glossarium: A compilation of Latin words and phrases generally used in law with English translations. Bryanston, South Africa: Proctrust Publications, 2003. Jan Scholtemeijer & Paul Hasse. Legal Latin: A basic course. Pretoria, South Africa: J.L. van Schaik Publishers, 1993.
The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
The Police Academy was refurbished and reopened in 1997. In 2014, the National Police College of Jamaica was established following a merger of the Police Academy, the Jamaica Constabulary Staff College, the Caribbean Search Centre, the Firearm and Tactical Training Unit, and the Driving School, which all operated independently at Twickenham Park.
The Jamaica Rural Police Force (JRPF), also known as the District Constable (D.C.), is an auxiliary police force that supports the Jamaica Constabulary Force. [1] District constables are appointed by the Commissioner of Police and are attached to a specific police station.
General Sir Richard Dannatt, dressed in the formal attire of the Constable of the Tower, speaking at the Ceremony of the Constable's Dues, June 2010. Historically, the title comes from the Latin comes stabuli (attendant to the stables, literally 'count of the stable') and originated from the Roman Empire; originally, the constable was the officer responsible for keeping the horses of a lord or ...
The word "police" comes from the Greek politeia, meaning government, which came to mean its civil administration. The more general term for the function is law enforcement officer or peace officer. A sheriff is typically the top police officer of a county, with that word coming from the person enforcing law over a shire. A person who has been ...
A derogatory slang in Portugal used for police officers and law enforcement in general. [8] Booze Bus Australian slang term referring to a police roadside random breath testing station, which are often specialized buses. [citation needed] Boy Dem / Boydem / Bwoy Dem Jamaican-origin slang term, also popular in the UK and Toronto. [9] The Boys
First attested in English in the early 15th century, originally in a range of senses encompassing '(public) policy; state; public order', the word police comes from Middle French police ('public order, administration, government'), [10] in turn from Latin politia, [11] which is the romanization of the Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeia) 'citizenship, administration, civil polity'. [12]