Police Technology Social Media Lexicon

This lexicon has two purposes. First, to develop and understand social media terms and abbreviations for practical use by law enforcement personnel. Secondly, as information for the second edition of Police Technology. If you would like to add a word, phrase or abbreviation send an email to [email protected]. The focus is on Twitter abbreviations and Hash Tags. You can also follow the development of this lexicon http://www.twitter.com/policeofficer Finally, a full report on the use of Twitter by law enforcement can be found here: Law Enforcement on Twitter: Who’s Tweeting and What

Tag	Phrase	Definition
#Below100	Officer Safety Alert	An initiative to lower the Line of Duty Deaths to below 100 per year.
#BodyCam	Body Camera	Indicates the use of a Body Camera by a police officer
#BOLO	Be on the Look Out	Used to alert the public and other law enforcement personnel of people or vehicles that are wanted, missing, etc.
#ColdCase	Cold Case	Used to develop leads in a cold case.
#CRIME	Information on a crime	Could be used in conjunction with #BOLO, or as information about an arrest, etc.
#CrimePhoto	Crime Photograph	A photograph released for the purpose of aiding an investigation.
#CrimeSketch	Crime Sketch	A sketch of a suspect released for purpose of aiding an investigation.
#CrimeVid	Crime Video	Video of a crime released for purposes of aiding an investigation.
#HiTechCJ	Hi Tech Criminal Justice	Daily updates on Criminal Justice Issues.
#IOD	Injured on Duty	Notates a law enforcement official's injury in the performance of their duty.
#LAPD	Los Angeles Police Department
#Lawsuit	Law Suit	Notates a filed, pending or settled civil action against a law enforcement official or organization.
#LEO	Law Enforcement Organization	Information about the activities of a law enforcement organization, alternatively, LEO is Law Enforcement Officer
#LET	Law Enforcement Training
#LODD	Line of Duty Death
#MISCONDUCT	Misconduct	Used in conjunction with law enforcement scandal or misconduct.
#MISSING	Missing person.
#NYPD	New York City Police Department
#Pursuit	Pursuit	Indicates a a vehicle pursuit by law enforcement officers
#REWARD	Reward	Used when a reward is offered.
#SMILECon	SMILE Conference	Information about the Social Media, Internet and Law Enforcement Conference.
#TACOP	Thank a Cop
#UOF	Use of Force	Used to describe situation where less-lethal force was used
#WANTED	Wanted person or vehicle

Law Enforcement		Twitter
ANPR	Automatic Number Plate Recognition	about	abt
avail	Available	after	aftr
BOLO	Be on the Look out	are	r
Capt	Captain	because	b/c
COP	Chief of Police	before	b4
COL	Colonel	could	cld/cud
CPL	Corporal	email	Eml
CMDR	Commander	forward	fwd
desc	Description, or described as	for	4
DOA	Dead on Arrival	Facebook	FB
dept	department	into	in2
EMT	Emergency Medical Technician	it is	itz
EOW	End of Watch	meeting	mtg
ETA	Estimated Time of Arrival	million	mil
evid	Evidence	MySpace	MySp
GOA	Gone on Arrival	1000	1K
ID	Identify (ID'D Identified)	please	plz
Inv	Investigate, Investigation	people	ppl
LT	Lieutenant	pounds	LBS
ofcr	officer	should	shld/sld/sud
OIC	Officer-in-Charge	to, too	2
OIS	Officer-Involved-Shooting	thanks	thx/TY
O/T	Overtime	you	u
PAL	Parolee at Large	your	ur
PD	police department	with	w/
Maj	Major	would	wld/wud
marj	marijuana
rpt	report
sgt	Sergeant
S/O	sheriff's office
SOW	Start of Watch
STA.	Police Station, Precinct, etc.
susp	suspect (in lieu of Perpetrator, offender, etc.)
TC	Traffic Collision
traff	traffic
UFAP	Unlawful flight to Avoid Prosecution
Univ	University
UTL	Unable to Locate
vict	Victim