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Ten-code. Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code.[1]
Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...
10-100 Restroom break. 10-200 Police needed at _____. (In the trucking-themed movie Smokey and the Bandit, a character jokingly plays off this usage, saying that 10-100 is better than 10-200, meaning that 10-100 was peeing and 10-200 was doing a #2). 20 Abbreviation of "10-20." Affirmative Yes. [6] Alabama chrome Duct tape. Alligator station
187 (slang) Section 187 (often referred to in slang simply as 187) of the California Penal Code defines the crime of murder. The number is commonly pronounced by reading the digits separately as "one-eight-seven", or "one-eighty-seven", rather than "one hundred eighty-seven". The number "187" has been used by gangs throughout the United States ...
Derogatory; derived from the term "Pig/Pigs"; can refer to a single officer or the police generally. [3] Bagieta. Polish slang term for police officer, that is: baguette and it is reference to police baton. BAC. French slang for police officer; acronym of the Brigade anti-criminalité in France. Barney.
Cousin. Term used by American federal agents to refer to British government agents. Babylon. Jamaican slang for members of establishments (including the police and federal agents) that are perceived as oppressive due their association with white people. [2] Downtown gang. FBI.
In its modern form, the use of skell as a slang term in the United States appears to date from the 1960s, most especially from New York City. The word has sometimes been used by the police officer characters on the TV shows NYPD Blue, Third Watch, Gotham, Law and Order: SVU, and Blue Bloods, as well as Better Call Saul.
The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.