![]() Alas, Ted Hastings does not spend his spare time role-playing a warlock. A popular usage is to refer to Dungeons & Dragons, the fantasy tabletop game. D&D (Drunk & Disorderly)ĭepending on how you like to spend your evenings, D&D can have very different meanings. A DIR is used to record police interviews and replaces the old-fashioned video or cassette tapes, and these fancy bits of kit can usually record both sound and video. Speak clearly after the excruciatingly long beep! You’ll have heard this abbreviation quite a lot in episode one as the interviewing officers would say things like ‘for the DIR, the suspect is nodding their head’. The Crown Prosecution Service is an independent prosecuting body, first established in 1986, which decides whether cases brought by the police in England and Wales should go to court. A CHIS is likely to be in a dangerous situation if their identity is revealed. Sounds rather technical, doesn’t it? But CHIS is simply a sneaky way of saying someone is a police informant (also known colloquially as a nark, a grass or a snitch, depending on where you’re from in the UK). Much like the squad headed up by Sergeant Danny Waldron in series three of the show. ARU (Armed Response Unit)Īn armed response unit is a unit of police officers who have been trained to use firearms in situations where their fellow unarmed colleagues may be in danger. ![]() Without AC-12, there would be no Line of Duty! It means Anti-Corruption Unit 12, the team at the centre of the action led by Ted Hastings, committed to rooting out ‘bent coppers’ within the police force. Now we’ve got that out of the way, let’s get down to business. Before we kick off, what does line of duty itself actually mean? According to Collins COBUILD Dictionary, if something is ‘ in the line of duty’ it is what you do or what happens to you as part of your everyday work. With that in mind, we’ve created a crash course of Line of Duty initialisms and acronyms to help you understand the difference between your CHIS and your MISPER, even without a PNC. ![]() ![]() A busy DC, DS or DI is more likely to use short and snappy abbreviations to communicate information fast, whether over the police radio or at the guvnor’s desk. When you’re busy nicking bent coppers, you don’t have time to waste on trivial things like words. But for civilians, deciphering all the police jargon can be pretty difficult. BBC’s Line of Duty is back after a two-year hiatus and we couldn’t be more excited to resume our role of armchair detective. ![]()
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