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Glossary

ACC	assistant chief constable (see )
ACPO	Association of Chief Police Officers; a limited company that claims to speak for the whole police service, membership of which is restricted to chief officers, but it is likely to mutate into a police institute of some kind, aiming to speak for the whole police service.
APA	Association of Police Authorities
BCS	British Crime Survey; begun in 1982, this is an annual survey of the attitudes of victims to crime and the police. It is key to understanding the publics fear of crime.
BCU	Basic command unit; a local police group headed by a Superintendent or Chief Superintendent and based at one or more police stations. It is increasingly seen as an inefficient way of delivering local policing.
Bramshill	Residential police training site near Hook in Hampshire which houses the Police National Leadership College, the comprehensive National Police Library (but not for much longer apparently); and is where the SCC takes place. Bramshill is also called the National Police Staff College.
BTP	British Transport Police; despite its name this is the railway police force and has nothing to do with aircraft, motor vehicles or shipping.
CC	chief constable (see )
chief officer	A police officer who holds a formal strategic command rank, from ACC or commander (in the MPS), through DCC or deputy assistant commissioner (DAC) in the MPS, to CC or assistant commissioner in the MPS. Deputy commissioner and commissioner are two police ranks found only in London and should not be confused with the coalition governments creation of police crime commissioners.
CJS	Criminal justice system; the collective apparatus of police, courts, trials, sentencing, prisons and probation.
COMPSTAT	probably stands for comparative statistics (no one is certain; some claim it is short for computer statistics, which makes less sense); imported from the US, it is a methodology to compare operational performance between police groups and to assess the efficacy of local command in terms of local targets set and met.
CPS	Crown Prosecution Service, retitled Public Prosecution Service in 2009
DCC	deputy chief constable (see )
DECC	directly elected crime commissioner (see )
FOI	Freedom of Information (Act), basis for obtaining information from (often reluctant) public servants; the police refer to FOI requests.
FTA	Fixed term appointment; usually of five years at a time, this is the basis for the employment of chief and deputy chief constables, and increasingly of ACCs too. FTAs are detested by ACPO and owned by police authorities, and, from mid-2012, PCCs.
Gold	Designation of the coordinating strategic commander in a crisis or operation, it is used by the police to describe the most senior on-call officer in a force; usually but not exclusively a chief officer.
HMIC	Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary
HMCIC	Her Majestys Chief Inspector of Constabulary
HPDS	High Potential Development Scheme, revised (and sometimes reviled) method to fast track those police officers allegedly with potential to become chief officers.
HR	human resources or people management
IPLDP	Initial Police Leadership Development Programme
MPA	Metropolitan Police Authority, the body chaired by the Deputy Mayor of London which oversees the MPS.
MPS	Metropolitan Police Service, serving all of London (except the City of London which has its own force) and headed by a commissioner. MPS has its own chief officer designations (see ).
NCA	National Crime Agency, a massive structure which replaced the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in 2011 and has taken parts of NPIAs functions, its aim is to challenge serious organised crime at levels above that of the individual police force, so acting regionally, nationally and internationally.
NOS	National Occupational Standards; sets of skills-based and behavioural competencies used to assess police officers at various ranks some are generic to policing, others are rank or role based.
NPIA	National Policing Improvement Agency; among other things, the NPIA was responsible for all police learning and training. Its costs were high (550 million each year) and it was abolished by the coalition government on assuming office in 2010.
NVQ	National Vocational Qualification, widely regarded in policing as an artisan route to qualification.
OSPRE	Objective Structured Performance Related Examination for promotion to sergeant and inspector, now much criticised for its mechanistic approach to assessing the roles.
PA	Police authority; an oversight role normally performed by 17 people, (some elected, some appointed) under the Police Act 1964. The role is to be terminated in 2012.

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