The one vital point you overlook is that these officers are the type who are, in police parlance, the first through the door.

He said the raids were known in police parlance as "doing doors," kicking open doors.

Their primary sources of income are said to be gambling, drugs, prostitution, labor rackets and extortion, known in police parlance as "intervention in civil affairs."

In police parlance, the "stall" distracts the victim while the "hook" takes the merchandise.

He had a portable flashing light in his car, wore a bulletproof vest and talked in police parlance, they said.

'Er-' Now Vimes was nose to nose with the man who, in police parlance, was helping him with his inquiries.

In police parlance this club room of ours would be considered a loft, I suppose.

Thirty seconds later the shooting is clearly over, as Officer Boss gets on the radio to request "a bus and a boss," police parlance for an ambulance and a supervisor.

In the "six-seven," as the precinct is known in police parlance, all of that goes into the computer now.

It is known in police parlance as "contagious shooting" - gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a threat.