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.
- 4P
- 7(2)d risks
- Abuse of position for a sexual purpose
- ACRO
- Active risk management (ARMS)
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)
- Anti-corruption unit (ACU)
- Anti-social behaviour
- Armed policing strategic threat and risk assessment (APSTRA)
- Armed response vehicle (ARV)
- Article 31 (prohibition notices)
- Auditable crime-recording route
- Authorised Professional Practice (APP)
- Bail
- Basic command unit (BCU)
- 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)
- Chief officer
- Child sex offender disclosure scheme
- Code of Ethics
- Code of practice (CoP)
- College of Policing
- COMAH sites
- Competency and values framework
- Conducted energy device (CED)
- Continuing professional development (CPD)
- County lines
- Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO)
- Critical incidents
- Cuckooing
- Domestic abuse, stalking, harassment and honour-based violence (DASH) risk assessment form
- Day crewing plus
- Designated chief officer
- Digital forensics
- Diplomas in fire safety/ engineering design
- Direct entry scheme
- Disclosure
- Disclosure officer
- Domestic abuse
- Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS)
- Domestic Violence Protection Notice or Order (DVPN/DVPO)
- Dry riser
- Early help and safeguarding hub (E-HASH)
- Ethics committee
- Exeter data
- Experian data
- Fraud and Linked Crime Online (FALCON)
- Fall back
- Fast Track
- 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 management statement
- Framework agreement
- FTE
- Government Agency Intelligence Network
- Hazardous area response team (HART)
- Heritage site
- Home fire safety check
- Home Office classification N100
- Hot debriefs
- IBaSE
- Incapacitant spray
- Independent advisory group
- Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
- Independent statutory inspection
- Index of multiple deprivation
- Integrated offender management (IOM)
- Integrated risk management plan (IRMP)
- Integrity health check
- Investing for the Future
- Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP)
- Joint organisation learning (JOL)
- Lead responsible officer (LRO)
- Lifetime offender management
- Local resilience forum (LRF)
- M/ETHANE
- Management of sexual offenders and violent offenders (MOSOVO)
- MAPPA
- Multi-agency referral form (MARF)
- Medium Term Financial Plan (MTFP)
- Mobile data terminal
- Mobilisation
- Management of risk in law enforcement (MoRILE)
- Mosaic (Experian) data
- Multi-agency risk assessment conference (MARAC)
- Multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH)
- Mutual assistance
- National Centre for Applied Learning Technologies (NCALT)
- National co-ordination and advisory framework (NCAF)
- National co-ordination centre
- 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 Counter Corruption Advisory Group (NPCCAG)
- National resilience assets
- Near misses
- North East Transformation, Innovation and Collaboration (NETIC)
- Occupational health services
- OCG mapping
- On-call
- Operation Encompass
- Operational discretion
- Organisational justice
- Oscar Kilo
- Out-of-court disposals
- Outcome 16
- Performance and development review
- PESTELO
- Police and crime commissioner (PCC)
- Police National Computer (PNC)
- Police Now
- Police staff
- Police transformation fund
- Primary authority scheme
- Primary fire
- Priority-based budgeting
- Problem profiles
- Procedural justice
- Professional standards department (PSD)
- Professionalising investigations programme (PIP)
- Protected characteristics
- Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO)
- Regional organised crime units (ROCU)
- Regulators’ Code
- Released under investigation (RUI)
- Reserves
- Resilience Direct
- Retained
- Risk Matrix 2000
- Risk modelling
- Safe and well visits
- Safeguarding
- Safety flashes
- Scanning, analysis, response and assessment (SARA)
- Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Senior investigating officer (SIO)
- Senior officer
- Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO)
- Serious and organised crime (SOC)
- Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO)
- Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO)
- SOC local profiles
- Stop and search powers
- Street triage
- Tactical communications
- Tactical fire plan
- Tethered wade
- THRIVE
- Trauma risk management (TRiM)
- Trident
- Unconscious bias
- Urban search and rescue (USAR)
- Urban street gangs
- Voluntary attendance
- Vulnerable people
- Watch
- Wholetime fire station
- Wholetime firefighter
- Zero-based budgeting