User:Versageek/Appendix:Public Safety Terms
A
[edit]- abduction
- ACK
- ADW
- AKA
- alias
- ambulance
- ANI
- Automatic Number Identification
- ALI
- Automatic Location Identification
- APCO
- APB
- arrest
- arrest warrant
- assignment
- ARRL
- ATL
- available
- AVL
- AWOL
B
[edit]- backup
- badge
- bail
- bailiff
- band
- bandit
- barricade
- base station
- baton
- battery
- bearing (directional)
- beat
- beeper
- bench mark
- bench warrant
- bidirectional
- bigamy
- bike
- biker
- billy club (dated)
- biotelemetry
- black box
- blue flu
- body
- boisterous
- BOLO
- bomb threat
- bondsman
- booking
- break
- breakdown
- break in
- brevity code
- BRN
- broadcast
- broadcast tones
- bug
- bulk eraser (dated)
- bulletin
- bulletproof
- bureau
- burglary
- burnout
- busy signal
C
[edit]- CAD
- cadet
- calendar
- caliber
- call
- call box
- caller
- call letters
- call sign
- camp-on
- CAP
- capital offense
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation,CPR
- career criminal
- carriage return
- carrier (radio)
- cartography
- cartridge
- case
- case file, case jacket
- case law
- case number
- casing
- cat burglar
- CATV
- CB
- CCTV
- centrex (PBX)
- chain of command
- characteristic
- charge
- chase
- chassis (radio)
- CHEMTREC - CHEMical TRansportation Emergency Center
- chevron
- chopper
- circular
- citation
- civil
- civil defense
- civilian
- classification
- clear
- clearance
- clerk
- clipping (radio)
- clock
- code
- coded squelch, CTCSS
- collision
- comm (abbr)
- command
- command post
- commendation
- commitment
- common carrier
- common sense
- communication
- communication center, communications (a place)
- communicator (telecommunicator, dispatcher)
- community antenna television (CATV)
- comparator (radio)
- complainant
- complaint
- complex
- computer crime
- cone of silence (radio)
- confidence game
- confinement
- console
- constable
- consumer fraud
- contact
- contempt of court
- continuous duty cycle
- contour map
- control
- control console (radio)
- control head (radio)
- convict
- conviction
- coordination frequency (radio)
- cop
- copy (radio)
- cordon
- coroner
- corporal
- corporal punishment
- corpse
- corpus delicti
- correctional facility
- corrections
- counsel
- counter
- counterfeiting
- countermand
- county
- county seat
- coupe
- court
- courtesy
- court of record
- court order
- court reporter
- cover
- CPL
- CPR
- cradle (telephone)
- crank call, crank caller
- crash
- credit card fraud
- crime
- crime index
- crime rate
- criminal history
- criminal justice
- criminal justice agency
- criminal proceedings
- crisis
- crossband (radio)
- crosstalk (radio)
- cruiser
- CTCSS
- curfew
- custody
- CYMBAL (Color, Year, Make, Bodystyle, Anything else, License)
D
[edit]- DA
- dash
- data (plural of datum)
- data bank
- data circuit
- data set (modem), (dated)
- db
- deadend
- dead file
- deadly weapon
- dead spot
- decapitate
- deceased
- decibel
- decoder
- deface
- defendant
- definition (images)
- delinquent
- delirium tremens
- demodulation
- demonstration
- deputy (sheriff)
- derelict
- detective
- detention
- detour
- detoxification, detox
- diagnostic (computer program)
- dial
- diction
- direction of travel - description of the route taken by a pedestrian or vehicle
- directory
- disaster
- discharge
- discipline
- disclose
- disconnect
- disguise
- dismember
- disorderly conduct
- dispatch
- dispatcher
- display
- disposition
- dispute
- disseminate
- distortion (radio)
- distress
- district
- division
- DOA
- DOB
- dosimeter
- DOT direction of travel, Department of Transportation
- downtime
- dress wires/cables
- drone
- drop (phone system)
- drum printer
- drunkenness
- dry cell
- DTMF dual-tone multi-frequency
- dump, core (data)
- duplex (radio)
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[edit]- public safety - the safety of human life and health and of property and the environment
- public safety agency - an agency who's job is to protect the safety of human life and health and of property and the environment. This includes, but is not limited to: Law Enforcement, Fire Protection, Emergency Medical Services, Department of Environmental Protection and Civil Defense.