Police & Crimes 🚨

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When a police operation ... a number of people or things, they catch those people or find those things.
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net
The raids also netted weapons including knives.
If someone ..., they steal things, usually small cheap things.
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pilfer
When food stores close, they go to work, pilfering food for resale on the black market.
If something violent and cruel is done in..., it is done deliberately and in an unemotional way.
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in cold blood
The crime had been committed in cold blood.
If you say that someone is......, you mean that they steal things.
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light-fingered
police officer in informal way
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cop 🇺🇸 / copper 🇬🇧/ billy
If someone ..., they go onto someone else's land without their permission
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trespass
They were trespassing on private property
to fire a gun, or to fire a shot from a gun
formal
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discharge
The police stated that some 50 rounds had been discharged.
to steal something
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thieve
thieve
If someone ... a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another.
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hijack
If someone commits a ..., they enter a building by force and steal things... is the act of doing this.
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burglary
A ... is someone who has done something illegal or behaved badly.
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miscreant
To pass through the traffic light when the red light is illuminated.
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run a red light
A police car that has no markings to distinguish it from a civilian car
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unmarked police car
Someone who enters a place illegally and usually violently, and steals from it:
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raider
Someone who is on... is willing or seeking to receiving illegal income such as bribes.
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be on the take
Nobody is accusing me of being on the take from the Japanese
... is blood from a wound that has become thick.
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gore
A ... is someone who gets clients for prostitutes and takes a large part of the money the prostitutes earn.
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ponce/ pimp/ player (slang) / mack (slang)
Instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action).
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foment something
bez +to
He said he was not guilty of fomenting rebellion
When a police officer ... someone, he or she officially records their name and the offence that they may be charged with.
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book
Tom was booked for speeding yesterday.
deliberate and unprovoked behaviour
(of something bad, such as damage, cruelty, waste)
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wanton
entering a building or room by using force to open a door or window
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forcible entry
The door showed signs of forcible entry
a situation when a car is parked with some part of it resting on a sidewalk, and the remaining part - on a road/driveway or when car pull over from the road and go on a pavement (illegal)
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mount the pavement
A car came out of the fog, mounted the pavement and crashed into them.
to solve, or advance towards a solution of, an investigation or mystery, typically by finding new evidence.
idiom
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crack the case
a large single building or part of a complex subdivided into separate prison cells
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cellblock
a person who assists with the plotting or actual committing of a criminal act.
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partner in crime
A person who make a version of something that is not genuine but has been made to look genuine in order to deceive people.
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counterfeiter
To ... someone means to follow close behind them and watch where they go and what they do.
informal
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tail
Officers had tailed the gang from London during a major undercover inquiry.
... police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
also e. g. soldiers
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plain-clothes
He was arrested by plain-clothes detectives as he walked through the customs hall
A police officer on the ... is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
idiom
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be on the beat
The officer on the beat picks up information; hears cries for help; makes people feel safe
A ... is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
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bloodstain

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