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  2. Police code - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Lanterman–Petris–Short Act - Wikipedia

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    The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act ( Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States.

  5. What is a 5150 hold? The involuntary mental health ...

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    5150 is the number of the section of California's Welfare and Institutions Code which allows a person with a mental challenge to be involuntarily detained for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalization ...

  6. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, response codes are used to describe a mode of response for an emergency unit responding to a call. They generally vary but often have three basic tiers: Code 3: Respond to the call using lights and sirens. Code 2: Respond to the call with emergency lights, but without sirens. Alternatively, sirens may be used if necessary ...

  7. List of police tactical units - Wikipedia

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    50 Japan. 51 Jordan. 52 Kenya. 53 Kyrgyzstan. 54 Korea ... Download QR code; Wikidata item; Print/export ... Service de police de la MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais ...

  8. D.C. sniper attacks - Wikipedia

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    The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February ...

  9. List of law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Pennsylvania.. Pennsylvania says it has more police departments than any other state in the country. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 1,117 law enforcement agencies employing 27,413 sworn police officers, about 218 for each 100,000 residents.