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Commonly Used Verbs in Police Reports

The document lists commonly used verbs in police reports, categorized into three sections: vehicular incidents, mauling/stabbing/shooting incidents, and theft/robbery incidents. Each section provides a range of verbs with definitions relevant to law enforcement contexts. This resource serves as a reference for terminology frequently encountered in police documentation.

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Commonly Used Verbs in Police Reports

The document lists commonly used verbs in police reports, categorized into three sections: vehicular incidents, mauling/stabbing/shooting incidents, and theft/robbery incidents. Each section provides a range of verbs with definitions relevant to law enforcement contexts. This resource serves as a reference for terminology frequently encountered in police documentation.

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Commonly Used Verbs in Police Reports

A. Vehicular, Traffic and Roads Accidents


1. Alight - to descend; to go down
2. Ascend - to go or move upward; to climb
3. Accost - to approach; confront
4. Block - to obstruct, or stop
5. Board - to get into, to enter
6. Bump - to come into contact with; to collide; to knock against with force
7. Careen - to twist from side to side; to crisscross or zigzag
8. Commandeer - to take over by force or by threat of force
9. Cruise - to move or proceed at moderate speed for sustained travel.
10. Deflate - to collapse by the removal of contained air or gas
11. Flag down - to cause to stop, by signaling with a flag or with a waving motion
12. Ferry - to bring or take to a point of delivery
13. Flip-over - to throw or put in motion with a jerk
14. Hail - to call out so as to attract attention
15. Maneuver - to manipulate, perform or conduct skillfully
16. Negotiate - to cross or cope with (some obstacles)
17. Ply - traverse regularly, make regular trips
18. Puncture - to pierce with a sharp point; to make by pricking, a hole
19. Ram - drive or force down into something; to dash against
20. Run - over to ride or drive over
21. Sideswipe - to strike a glancing blow to or from the side of something
22. Shuttle to move to and fro
23. Skid - to slip or slide sideways
24. Smash - to crash; to break or dash in pieces noisily and with violence
25. Swerve - to turn sharply or to cause to turn
26. Trail - to follow behind
27. Transport - to carry or convey from one place to another
28. Traverse - to pass over, across or through
29. Turn turtle - to overturn; to flip over; to turn upside down.
30. Waylay - to intercept or attack in order to rob or stay; to accost; to ambush
B. Mauling, Stabbing and Shooting Incidents
1. Altercation - argument, quarrel, disagreement
2. Bear - endure
3. Beat-up - to strike repeatedly
4. Brandish - to wave, shake triumphantly, menacingly or defiantly
5. Chase - to pursue with intent to catch or capture.
6. Cuss - to curse
7. Draw - to pull out
8. Ensue - follow, succeed, arise
9. Erupt - to break our; to occur
10. Flee - to run away, as from danger, harm, or enemies
11. Gang up - to attack or act against, together
12. Get back - to revenge oneself on
13. Hack - to cut or chop rudely and irregularly
14 Lunge - to thrust suddenly
15. Maul - to beat and bruise; to batter or assault
16. Mediate - to settle or reconcile; to intervene
17. Nab - to catch
18. Pacify - to appease; to calm
19. Pique - to provoke or excite to resentment
20. Poke - to thrust or push in; to jab; to make thrusts as with a stick or weapon
21. Proceed - to go on or forward
22. Punch - top strike sharply, with a fist
23. Rush - to move or go swiftly; to hurry or hasten
24 Square off - to prepare to fight
25. Sustain - to have inflicted on one; suffer, as loss or injury
26. Thrust - to stab; to push or shove with force or sudden impulse
27. Verbal tussle - verbal battle; disagreement
28. Whip - to strike with a lash, rod or strap
C. Theft and Robbery Incidents
1. Break into - to enter by force
2. Cart away - to haul and carry
3. Divest - to strip, as of clothes, ornaments, possessions
4. Frisk - to search and check for hidden weapons by running one's hand over someone's clothes
5. Grab - to grasp or seize forcibly or suddenly
6. Loot - to plunder; to rob
7. Overreach - to reach or extend too far or beyond something
8. Pull a heist - to hold up; rob at gun point
9. Ransack - to loot; to raid
10. Scour - to search; go over with a fine-tooth comb
11. Shoplift - to steal something from a shop or store while pretending to shop for goods
12. Snatch-to take forcibly, to seize: to take, grab or grasp something hastily while there is an
opportunity
13. Steal - to take from another without right, authority or permission, usually in secret manner

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