Police Technology Glossary

I study in the police technology program. We learn communications strategy, self-defense techniques, how to arrest a criminal, how to use the law (Criminal Code, Highway Safety Code, etc), how our justice system works and everything we need to know about the police officer duty. The formation prepare us to protect the life and the public safety and to protect the private property in order to be the best police officer we can become. Here's a glossary about some technial terms that we use.

Accused

          A person or persons charged with a crime.

Alibi

A form of defense used in criminal procedure wherein the accused attempts to prove that he or she was in some other place at the time the alleged offense was commited.

Arrest

To seize and hold under the authority of law.

Bulletproof vest

A vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet.

Cayenne pepper

A instrument use by police officer which contains cayenne pepper powder.

Clue

Sign showing the propable existence of someting that is on a crime scene and is related to crime.

Coroner

Investigation judge charged in suspicious deaths.

Crime scene

A location where a crime took place, and comprises the area from which most of the physical evidene is retrieved by law enforcement personnel, crime scene investigators or in rare circumstances, forensic scentist.

Delinquency

Minor crime, espacially committed by young people.

Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a law enforcement agency or a private person.

Evidence

The available body of facts or information indicating wheter a belief or proposition is true or valid.

Exhibit

A document or other object produced in court as evidence.

Gun

A weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.

Hit-and-run

Denoting or relating to a motor accident in which the vehicule involved does not stop.

Judge

An official person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

Lawyer

Someone who makes practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who retain them to perform legal services.

Pepper spray

 A lachrymatory agent (a chemical compound that irritates the eyes to cause tears, pain and temporary blindness) used in policing, riot control, crowd control, and personal self-defense, including defense against dogs and bears.

Police dog

A dog, often an Alsatian, trained to help the police, as in tracking.

Proofs

All which concerns a crime and can be used to facilitate a investigation or a trial.

Victim

A person harmed, injured or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.

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Police Officer

I study in the Police Technology program at the Ahuntsic College to become a police officer in the province of Quebec. In this three years of training, we learn everything about the police officer job and how to do it. For example, we are studying the Criminal Code, Civil Code, Highway Safety Code and we are doing simulations of interventions that will happen to us later to know what we need to do to help the citizens. We are also learning how to do some physical technique to immobilize and arrest criminals. The formation gives us what we need to be the best police officer. The aim of police in Quebec is to protect life and public safety and to ensure the protection of private property and we are learning how to do it. I have chosen this website below because it summarizes not only a day in the life of a police officer but also their career in general. I will summarize this website and make some links with the police in Quebec.

The website says that the police form comes in many ways such as sheriffs, detectives, state troopers and police officer. It's really relevant of the police worldwide because in a police station, there are different grades that a police officer can have. It's also true in Quebec, where you can find a commander, some sergeants, lieutenants, captains and many more. The website also says that the main goal of the police officers is to keep the public order and to protect citizens life and their property. It's the same goal as the police in Quebec. My chosen website also relates the stress that a police officer may have because of the pressure on him. He has to maintain the law, ensure the thrust of the citizens in the police, arrest criminal and to be the protection between a citizen and a dangerous situation. All of this is the same pressure that lives every police officer in Quebec. Finally, the website says the prerequisites to be a police officer: be in a great physical form, graduate from a police academy and pass the psychological and the physical tests. These prerequisites are the same to be a police officer in Quebec, except that in Quebec every police officer must go through Nicolet (Quebec's police academy) to become a policer officer.

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