Philadelphia County (PA)
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Police Unit Numbers
Philadelphia Police Unit Numbers
- Patrol Units: (“X” = one or two digit district #)
- CO “X” = District Captain (ex: “C.O. Twenty-two’)
- “X” Command = Lieutenant (ex: “Five Command”
- “X” A, B, C, D = Sergeants (ex: “Fifteen Andy” or “thirty-nine Charlie”)
- “X” E, F = Operations Room Supervisors (Corporals)
- “X” Operations or “Ops” is the district operations room
- “X” 0 _ = Prisoner Wagons <two person units> (ex: “Fourteen 0 one”)
- “X” 1_ = Patrol Units in PSA (Police Service Area) 1 (ex: “nineteen eleven”)
- “X” 2_ = Patrol Units in PSA 2 (ex: “two twenty two”)
- “X” 3_ = Patrol Units in PSA 3
- “X” 4_ = Patrol Units in PSA 4
- “X” Tom _ = District Tactical Units (ex: “Eight Tom Two”)
- Detective Units: (“X” Division number)
- D”X”_ _ (D, Division number + two digits)
- For example D200 units are North West Detective Division, so “Dan two ten” would be a NWDD detective.
- Other Units:
- A= Accident Investigation (AID)
- C, Car, CI, & I = Command Staff (“Car One” = Police Commissioner)
- G= Garage (tow trucks)
- H= Highway Patrol
- K= K-9
- L= Crime Lab
- N= Narcotics
- NS= Narcotics Strike Force
- S1_ _= SWAT
- T= Traffic
- Tac Air = Aviation (helicopter)
- X= Expressway Patrol
- A letter + number + A, B, C or D is a unit supervisor (Ex: “Sam One Andy” = SWAT Sergeant & “Highway Two Barney” = Highway Patrol Sergeant)
Common Police Codes
1037 = DUI
1038 = Incident report
5292 = Deceased person
NAT = necessary action taken
RTF = Report to follow
UNF = Unfounded
Philadelphia Prison System Facilities
Alternative and Special Detention (ASD)
Cannery - Work Release (Cannery)
Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility (CFCF)
Detention Center - Intake (DC)
Holmesburg Prison (Holmesburg) (Closed except for overflow use)
House of Correction (HOC)
Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center - Female Unit (PICC)
Riverside Correctional Facility (RCF)