Language Of A Police Officer
For my Power and Function of language assignment I have chosen research the language of police officers.. I chose this subject because I thought I wanted to find out a little bit how police officers communicate and I could interview my Dad. Dad has been a PO for about 25 years and has worked in many different sections of the police force, like Fatal crash investigation and major crime investigation. I also wanted to find out some of the common jargon used in a Police station.
I had chosen to interview my Dad because I thought it would be easier to organise, but that proved to be very difficult as he was always very busy working, or I was busy when he wasn't. The first question that I asked my Dad was about general communication with police …show more content…
Police officers deal with death all the time, especially in areas like fatal crash investigation, so they have come up with jargon to suit the condition of the victims. CTD means circling the drain the victim isn't dead but it would only be a short amount of time until they are. Abbreviations like CTD are also used to protect other people like friends or family nearby from hearing and understanding.
It is quite difficult to understand police jargon or their language, as it is sometimes completely random and illogical and it also contains some medical …show more content…
I wasn't nervous at all, because i was interviewing my Dad, but i think that interviewing my Dad may have not been as good a thing as i thought. Because i already felt very comfortable in my interview and I already know about my Dad I didn't spend enough time doing the starting questions and introductory questions, instead I just started asking questions bluntly straight away. In a normal interview, I'm sure I would just get blunt answers, but my Dad tried to help me with ways for conducting a better interview and answered the questions a lot better than I thought. I also think that my questions that I asked needed a lot more work, but I think that this was because I knew I was interviewing my Dad , so I didn't put much effort into
I had chosen to interview my Dad because I thought it would be easier to organise, but that proved to be very difficult as he was always very busy working, or I was busy when he wasn't. The first question that I asked my Dad was about general communication with police …show more content…
Police officers deal with death all the time, especially in areas like fatal crash investigation, so they have come up with jargon to suit the condition of the victims. CTD means circling the drain the victim isn't dead but it would only be a short amount of time until they are. Abbreviations like CTD are also used to protect other people like friends or family nearby from hearing and understanding.
It is quite difficult to understand police jargon or their language, as it is sometimes completely random and illogical and it also contains some medical …show more content…
I wasn't nervous at all, because i was interviewing my Dad, but i think that interviewing my Dad may have not been as good a thing as i thought. Because i already felt very comfortable in my interview and I already know about my Dad I didn't spend enough time doing the starting questions and introductory questions, instead I just started asking questions bluntly straight away. In a normal interview, I'm sure I would just get blunt answers, but my Dad tried to help me with ways for conducting a better interview and answered the questions a lot better than I thought. I also think that my questions that I asked needed a lot more work, but I think that this was because I knew I was interviewing my Dad , so I didn't put much effort into