Definitions and interpretation
This page displays the definitions and interpretation for the:
- crime recording inspections;
- Fire assessments; and
- police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (PEEL) inspections.
More terms will be added here over time.
- 101
- 2013 Protocol and Good Practice Model
- 24-hour PACE clock
- 4Ps
- 7(2)d risks
- Abuse of position for a sexual purpose
- abuser
- ACRO
- Active risk management (ARMS)
- active risk management system (ARMS)
- appropriate adult PACE definition
- adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)
- Anti-corruption unit (ACU)
- Anti-social behaviour
- Appropriate authority (police complaints)
- Armed policing strategic threat and risk assessment (APSTRA)
- Armed response vehicle (ARV)
- Article 31 (prohibition notices)
- Athena
- Auditable crime-recording route
- Authorised Professional Practice (APP)
- bail
- Basic command unit (BCU)
- Basic deployment unit
- Benchmarking
- Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme (BUSS)
- Beyond 360º feedback
- Biker Down
- BikeSafe
- Blue Light Charter
- Blue Light Wellbeing Framework
- Body-worn video (BWV)
- BritainThinks
- Chief officer
- child
- child abduction warning notice (CAWN)
- child and adolescent mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- child exploitation and online protection (CEOP)
- Child Rescue Coalition
- child risk assessment model (CRAM)
- Child sex offender disclosure scheme
- child sexual exploitation (CSE) risk assessment
- Childline
- the Children and Social Work Act 2017
- Code of Ethics
- Code of practice (CoP)
- the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (the Victims Code) (VCOP)
- Collateral intrusion
- College of Policing
- COMAH sites
- community resolution
- community safety units (CSU)
- COMPACT
- Competency and values framework
- Conducted energy device (CED)
- contextual safeguarding
- Continuing professional development (CPD)
- controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour
- CoP guidance
- Corson and Stoughton (CS) spray
- County lines
- covert and overt policing
- covert human intelligence source
- Crime Survey for England and Wales
- Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO)
- Critical incidents
- Cuckooing
- custody concordat
- domestic abuse, stalking, harassment (DASH) risk assessment
- Day crewing plus
- Dedicated source unit
- Designated chief officer
- designated officer
- detention certificate
- digital case file system
- Digital forensics
- Diplomas in fire safety/ engineering design
- Direct entry scheme
- Directed surveillance
- Disclosure
- Disclosure officer
- Discrimination
- domestic abuse
- domestic abuse protection notice (DAPN)
- Domestic Abuse Protection Order (DAPO)
- domestic violence disclosure scheme (DVDS)
- domestic violence protection notice (DVPN)
- Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO)
- Dry riser
- duty of custody officer
- early adopter projects
- Early help and safeguarding hub (E-HASH)
- early investigative advice
- Ethics committee
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Every Child Matters
- Exeter data
- Experian data
- Fraud and Linked Crime Online (FALCON)
- Fall back
- Fast Track
- female genital mutilation (FGM)
- fighting international internet paedophilia (FIIP)
- Find rate
- Fire and rescue authority
- Fire and Rescue National Framework
- Fire Control
- Fire engineered building
- Fire safety enforcement action
- Fire service emergency cover toolkit
- Fire transformation fund
- Firefighter fitness
- Flagstone record
- force control room
- force management statement
- forced marriage
- Framework agreement
- front door
- FTE
- Genie
- Gold group
- golden hour principle
- Government Agency Intelligence Network
- harassment
- Hazardous area response team (HART)
- Heritage site
- high-risk domestic abuse
- Home fire safety check
- Home Office classification N100
- Home Office Crime Outcomes Data
- Home Office large major enquiry system (HOLMES)
- Hot debriefs
- house in multiple occupation (HMO)
- IBaSE
- Incapacitant spray
- incommunicado
- Independent advisory group
- independent domestic violence adviser (IDVA)
- Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
- independent sexual violence adviser (ISVA)
- Independent statutory inspection
- Index of multiple deprivation
- initial child protection conference (ICPC)
- Integrated offender management (IOM)
- Integrated risk management plan (IRMP)
- Integrity health check
- Intelligence
- intermediary
- Intrusive surveillance
- Investing for the Future
- IS91 – authority to detain
- Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP)
- joint investigations
- Joint organisation learning (JOL)
- Kent internet risk assessment tool (KIRAT)
- key individual network
- Lead responsible officer (LRO)
- liaison and diversion
- Lifetime offender management
- local authority designated officer (LADO)
- Local resilience forum (LRF)
- local safeguarding children board (LSBC)
- looked after child (LAC)
- M/ETHANE
- Managed Learning Environment
- management of sexual offenders and violent offenders (MOSOVO)
- MAPPA
- MAPPA guidance
- Multi-agency referral form (MARF)
- Medium Term Financial Plan (MTFP)
- missing
- missing, slavery, exploitation and trafficking (MSET) framework
- Mobile data terminal
- Mobilisation
- management of risk in law enforcement (MoRILE)
- Mosaic (Experian) data
- multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA)
- multi-agency risk assessment conference (MARAC)
- Multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH)
- mutual aid
- Mutual assistance
- National Centre for Applied Learning Technologies (NCALT)
- National co-ordination and advisory framework (NCAF)
- National co-ordination centre
- national crime recording standard (NCRS)
- National Decision Model (NDM)
- National Domestic Extremism Unit
- National Fire Chiefs Council
- National force crime registrar accreditation course
- National inter-agency liaison officer (NILO)
- National operational guidance
- National operational learning (NOL)
- National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC)
- National Police Coordination Centre
- National Police Counter Corruption Advisory Group (NPCCAG)
- national post event learning review form
- national referral mechanism (NRM)
- National resilience assets
- National Source Working Group
- national strategic assessment of serious and organised crime
- National strategy for police information systems (NSPIS)
- National Undercover Working Group
- Near misses
- neighbourhood policing team
- North East Transformation, Innovation and Collaboration (NETIC)
- Niche
- non-molestation order
- notification requirements
- Occupational health services
- OCG mapping
- On-call
- Operation Encompass
- Open source research
- Operational discretion
- Organisational justice
- Oscar Kilo
- Out-of-court disposals
- outcome 15
- outcome 16
- PACE code C 2019
- PACE code G 2012
- peer review
- peer-to-peer networks
- Performance and development review
- PESTELO
- Philomena protocol
- Police and crime commissioner (PCC)
- The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) codes of practice
- Police National Computer (PNC)
- Police Now
- Police staff
- Police transformation fund
- positive action
- prevention interviews
- Primary authority scheme
- Primary fire
- Priority-based budgeting
- Problem profiles
- Procedural justice
- Professional standards department (PSD)
- Professionalising investigations programme (PIP)
- Property interference
- protected characteristics
- protecting vulnerable people (PVP)
- protester removal team
- public protection unit
- Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO)
- Rape Crisis
- rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO)
- Regional information and co-ordination centre
- Regional organised crime units (ROCU)
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
- Regulators’ Code
- released under investigation (RUI)
- Reserves
- Resilience Direct
- responsible authority
- restorative justice
- restraining order
- Retained
- return home interviews
- risk assessment
- Risk Matrix 2000
- Risk modelling
- S11 duty of specified agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
- S140 Mental Health Act 1983
- S44 emergency protection order (EPO)
- S46 police protection
- S47 child protection investigations
- Safe and well visits
- safeguarding
- SafeLives
- safety advisory group
- Safety flashes
- Scanning, analysis, response and assessment (SARA)
- Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Senior investigating officer (SIO)
- Senior officer
- serious case review (SCR)
- Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO)
- Serious and organised crime (SOC)
- sexual assault referral centre (SARC)
- sexual exploitation
- sexual harm prevention order (SHPO)
- Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO)
- Signs of Safety
- single combined assessment risk form (SCARF)
- slavery and trafficking prevention order (STPO) and slavery and trafficking risk order (STRO)
- SOC local profiles
- specialist child abuse investigation development programme (SCAIDP)
- St Giles Trust
- stalking
- Stalking Protection Order (SPO)
- Stop and search powers
- the Strategic Policing Requirement
- strategy discussions (meetings)
- streamlined forensic reporting
- Street triage
- survivors
- system for tasking and operational resource management (STORM)
- Tactical communications
- Tactical fire plan
- Tactics, Training and Equipment working group
- Tethered wade
- thematic inspection
- threat, harm, risk, investigation, vulnerability and engagement (THRIVE) model
- thresholds
- THRIVE
- trauma risk management (TRiM)
- Trident
- trigger plan
- Unconscious bias
- Urban search and rescue (USAR)
- Urban street gangs
- Victims
- Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR)
- voice of the child (VoC)
- voluntary attendance
- vulnerability identification screening tool (VIST)
- vulnerability training
- vulnerable people
- vulnerable person
- Watch
- Wholetime fire station
- Wholetime firefighter
- Working Together to Safeguard Children: Statutory guidance on inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
- Zero-based budgeting