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Allegheny County (PA) Pittsburgh City Police Terminology, Acronyms, and Abbreviations

From The RadioReference Wiki

The following list details terms heard on the City of Pittsburgh Police radio channels. SWAT terminology is discussed in their separate Wiki section.

DRE - Drug Recognition Expert

The Board - "The Board” is a computer graph/table with the status of each individual Zone’s patrol vehicles. Sometimes it becomes necessary to clean-up "The Board” and get it back in order with the proper status of units.

Run-Down - The shift schedule for a particular Zone. The Run-Down is faxed to radio dispatch by the Zone lieutenant on duty for that shift.

Mover - A vehicle that is being stopped for a traffic violation.

CCR Number - Each call or incident a police officer responds to, no matter how minor, is assigned a unique record number. The numbering system starts at "1" for the first incident or call at the beginning of a calendar year. Numbers are assigned as calls come in or incidents are responded to. The CCR Number may also be referred to as "Number", "Detail", "Detail Number", etc.



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