As a large organisation we often use abbreviations within our textual information. The following list is intended to assist in interpreting the abbreviations used by Cumbria Police.
ABC Activity Based Costing
ACC Assistant Chief Constable -
ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers
AFO Authorised Firearms Officers
Airwave Public safety radio communications service
AIU Accident Investigation Unit
ANPR Automatic Number Plate Recognition Cameras - linked to DVLA and PNC
APACS Association for Payment Clearing Services - UK Banks and Building Societies
ATO Area Training Officers
ATU Area Targetting Unit
Audit Commission Independent body to ensure public money is used properly
BB Guns Ball-bearing Guns
BCS British Crime Survey
BCU Basic Command Unit (Three BCU's in Cumbria - Carlisle, Workington, Kendal)
BNP British National Party
BV Best Value
BVPI Best Value Performance Indicator
BVPP Best Value Performance Plan
CAFCASS Children and Family Court Advisory Service
CAPU Child & Adult Protection Units - officers based in three areas
CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear
CC Chief Constable
CCJB Cumbria Criminal Justice Board
CDRP Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
Centrex Central Police Training and Development Authority
CFF Crime Fighting Fund
CIB Crime Input Bureau based at Barrow
CICFA Concerted Inter-Agency Criminal Financial Assets Group
CID Criminal Investigation Department
CIDA Concerted Inter-Agency Drugs Action Group
CJU Criminal Justice Unit
CJX Criminal Justice Extranet
CMIS Crime Management Information Unit
COG Chief Officer Group
Control Strategy A NIM product to identify strategic policing priorities for the BCU, Force or Region
COPS Community Oriented Problem Solving
CPA Cumbria Police Authority
CPS Crown Prosecution Service
CRISP Cross Regional Information Sharing
CRTP Competence Related Threshold Payment Scheme
CRU Crime Reduction Unit
CSI Crime Scene Investigator
CSO Community Support Officer
CTO Central Ticket Office based at Hunter Lane, Penrith
DAT Drug Action Team - UK Government Strategy for 'Tackling Drugs Together'
DCC Deputy Chief Constable
DCI Detective Chief Inspector
DEFRA Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DVLA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (part of Department of Transport)
EFQM European Foundation for Quality Management
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
FIB Force Intelligence Bureau
FOI Freedom of Information Act
FUG Force User Group
GPMS Government Protective Marking Scheme
H & S Health and Safety
HLS Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal testing laboratory near Cambridge
HMIC Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary
HORS Home Office Research Study
HPDS High Potential Development Scheme for top recruits to the Police
ICF Integrated Competency Framework
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IHR Ill Health Retiral
IIP Investors in People
ILP Intelligence Led Policing
IMS Information Management Section
IP Injured Person
ISO Information Security Officer
ISS Information Systems Strategy
ISS4PS Information Systems Strategy for Police Service
LCJB Local Criminal Justice Board - delivery of justice, victims & witnesses, confidence
LPP Local Policing Plan
LPT Local Policing Team
MAPP Multi Agency Public Protection Panel - dangerous and high profile offenders
MPS Metropolitan Police Service
MSG Mobile Support Group
MTIC Missing Trader Intra-Community Fraud - a form of VAT fraud
NCRS National Crime Recording Standard
NIM National Intelligence Model
NMIS National Management Information System
NPP National Policing Plan
NSIR National Standard for Incident Recording
NSPIS - C & C / HR National Strategy for Police Information Systems/Case Custody/Human Resources
OAAO Overarching Aims and Objectives
O D & P Organisational Development and Partnerships
OS Operational Support
P & D Personnel and Development
PACE Police and Criminal Evidence Act
PBVI Police Best Value Indicator
PDR Performance Development Review
PID Project Initiation Document
PITO Police Information Technology Organisation
PMU Programme Management Unit
PNC Police National Computer
POLIS Police On Line Information System
PPAF Policing Performance Assessment Framework
PROMAT New video system for identification parades - has replaced VIPER
PSD Professional Standards Department
PSU Police Support Unit
RMS Record Management System
RSB Resource & Standards Board
RTC Road Traffic Collision (used to be RTA - road traffic accident)
SB Special Branch
SCARAB Scanning Research and Best Practice
SICCS Software Integrationary Communications Control Systems (DS2000)
SNEN Single Non-Emergency Number
STEP Selective Traffic Enforcement Programme - targeting black spots at peak times
TAM Terrorist and Allied Matters - ACPO team concerned with terrorism issues
TMO Traffic Management Officer
TSG Tactical Support Group
TWOC Taken Without Consent
UKTA United Kingdom Threat Assessment - annual NCIS publication
Valiant Police information systems strategy
VIPER System for Video Identification Parade - see PROMAT
YOT Youth Offending Teams from Police, Probation, SS, Health, Education, Housing