Our Abbreviations
Acronyms & Abbreviations
This section has been included to assist you interpreting the abbreviations that you might come across in our Publication Scheme. Not all of the below listed abbreviations can be found in the classes of information, but may relate to the wider policing arena.
You can select from one of the letters below (only those which are listed are linked)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- ABH - Actual Bodily Harm
- ACC - Assistant Chief Constable
- ACPO - Association of Chief Police Officers
- ARV - Armed Response Vehicle
B
- BCU - Basic Command Unit
- BTP - British Transport Police
C
- CCTV - Closed Circuit Television
- CHC - Call Handling Centre
- CIB - Central Intelligence Bureau
- CID - Criminal Intelligence Department
- CMU - Crime Management Unit
- CO - Chief Officer (within Special Constabulary)
- COG - Chief Officers' Group
- CPO - Crime Prevention Officer
- CPU - Child Protection Unit
- CPS - Crown Prosecution Service
D
- DC - Detective Constable
- DCI - Detective Chief Inspector
- DI - Detective Inspector
- DS - Detective Sergeant
E
- EO - Equal Opportunities
F
- FIB - Force Intelligence Bureau
G
- GBH - Grievous Bodily Harm
H
- HMIC - Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabularies
- HO - Home Office
- HSE - Health and Safety Executive
I
- IHC - Incident Handling Centre
- INSP - Inspector
- IPCC - Independent Police Complaints Commission
N
- NSO - Neighbourhood Specialist Officer
P
- PC - Police Constable
- PCSO - Police Community Support Officer
- PITO - Police Information Technology Organisation
- PS - Police Sergeant
S
- SC - Special Constable
- SCC - Surrey County Council
- SOCO - Scenes of Crime Officer
- SPA - Surrey Police Authority
- SPB - Strategic Planning Board
- SUPT - Superintendent
T
- TNP - Targeted Neighbourhood Policing
V
- VSS - Victim Support Scheme