police slang

[bartholomew]

Hi guys

I was wondering if you could help me understand the following expressions:

1 my regular colleagues were coming off refs and ready to go back on duty.
2 if everybody had locked up, then I would have had nobody to go out with as they would have been at the custody suite.

3 we talk about incidents in the previous night's duty then he hands out the crewings

4 We jump in our car and scream down there on blues and twos, arriving with about ten other units

5 Issue EFPN to driver parked on the zig-zags outside the chip shop

many thanks

Bart

[Ethel]

1. Refs - refreshment break

2. Custody suite - where arrested people are processed and held between interviews and so on.

3. After debriefing the jobs are allocated to the officers - crewings is who goes in what cars.

4. blues and twos - flashing lights and sirens

5 - Endorsable fixed penalty notice - a fine plus points on licence.

[jackthehat]

1. My regular colleagues had finished their tea-break (refs - refreshments).................

2. All the officers would have been busy filling in forms etc., at the custody suite with regards to the people they had just arrested and therefore wouldn't have been free to return to their beat.

3. We talk about.................and then he hands out details of which officers will be working together and in which vehicles and where.

4. Blues + Twos - Flashing lights and sirens

5. E (?) Fixed Penalty Notice to driver parked on pedestrian crossing zig zag lines