Detroit Police Glossary

• A&B = Assault & Battery
• AF = Arabic Female
• AM = Arabic Male
• B&E = Breaking & Entering
• BF = Black Female
• BM = Black Male
• BSA = Handgun, Blue Steel Automatic
• BSR = Handgun, Blue Steel Revolver
• Botsford = Beaumont Hospital in Farmington Hills
• BOL or BOLO = Be On The Lookout
• CAD = Computer Aided Dispatch
• CCW = Weapons Offense-Concealed, No CPL
• Charlie = Coronavirus Patient/Chinese Virus Patient
• Code-7 = Death (DOS/K-Type)
• CPL = Concealed Pistol License
• Crime Intel = Green Light Video Monitoring
• DDC = Detroit Detention Center
• DOS = Dead On Scene
• DPD 1/2 = Detroit Helicopter
• DRH = Detroit Receiving Hospital
• DV = Domestic Violence
• DV/AB = Domestic Violence/Assault & Battery
• DV/FA = Domestic Violence/Felony Assault
• EOD = Explosive Ordinance Disposal/Bomb Squad
• FA = Felony Assault
• Fatal Squad = DPD Fatal MVA or T/C Investigators
• Good Shooting = A Confirmed Shooting
• Green Light = A Pay To Play Video Monitoring Service
• GSW = Gunshot Wound
• HF = Hispanic Female
• HM = Hispanic Male
• IC = Incident Command
• K-Type/DOS = Fatal, Dead
• Henry Ford = Henry Ford Hospital
• Home Invasion 1 or HE1 = Home Invasion In Progress
• Home Invasion 2 or HE2= Home Invasion Not In Progress
• K-Type = Fatal
• MDP = Malicious Destruction of Property
• Muppet = Criminal. Usually purple, orange or green etc.
• MVA = Motor Vehicle Accident (See T/C)
• MVC = Motor Vehicle Collision
• OIS = Officer Involved Shooting
• Omaha 1 = Department of Homeland Security Helicopter
• PIO = Public Information Officer/Person
• Priority = Priority of course
• PRO = Person Reporting Offense (See RP)
• RA = Armed Robbery
• RNA = Robbery Not Armed (Strong-arm Robbery)
• RONA = Coronavirus/Chinese Virus
• RP = Reporting Person (See PRO)
• Scout = Police Officer in Detroit
• Scout Car = Police Car in Detroit
• Sinai-Grace = Sinai-Grace Hospital
• Shot Spotter = System deployed to locate gunshots using acoustics
• Shooting Team = DPD Shooting Investigators
• SRT/SWAT = Special Response Team/Special Weapons & Tactics
• St John = St John Hospital
• Stretched = Putting water on a fire
• T/C = Traffic Collision (See MVA)
• Trooper 1/2/3 = Michigan State Police Helicopter
• Weapons Run = Incident involving a weapon
• WF = White Female
• WM = White Male
• Unit = Police Car (See Scout Car)
• 2400 = Commander-Big Kahuna
• 9300 = Arrest
• 8330 = Bomb Threat/Suspicious Package