CODES

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• ADW: Assault with a Deadly Weapon
• AIQ: Available in Quarters (typically an FD term meaning the fire apparatus is back inside the station)
• ALPR (or "ALPR's hit"): Automatic/Automated License Plate Reader/Recognition (strategically placed pole-mounted [typically] cameras throughout a city scanning license plates looking for stolen vehicles).
• ALS: Advanced Life Support (term commonly used by paramedics)
• AMR: (American Medical Response) Ambulance Service
• Audible: A burglar/fire alarm that can be heard
• Baywatch: It's the Lifeguard division of the Los Angeles County Fire Department
• BEARCAT: "Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck." SWAT's armored vehicle.
• "Beer Run": Theft of beer/alcohol (usually from a convenience store)
• BLS: Basic Life Support (less severe than an ALS request)
• BOLO: Be On the Look Out“The Boulevard”: Hawthorne Boulevard [usually]
• "Bud": Budlong Avenue"Cal Personal": California Personalized (Vanity) License Plate
• CARE: Ambulance Service
• CDL: Can be either a Commercial Driver's License or a California Driver's License
• CHP (or "Chippie"): California Highway Patrol
• "Cut Your Code": Stop responding with lights and siren (i.e.: ...
  Sufficient units on scene, cut your code).DB: Dead body
• DBR: Dead Body Recovery
• DOB: Date of Birth
• DCFS: Department of Children and Family Services
• DL: Driver's License
• DOT: Direction of Travel
• DP: Disturbing Party (The person who is causing the problem)
• DR or DR Number: Departmental Report
• ETOH: Paramedic (usually) term for an alcohol related issue/drunk
  (i.e.: ...The patient's chief complaint is ETOH)
• "E-TRIG" or "E-Trigger": An officer's panic (emergency) button on their handheld radio
• Gerber: Ambulance Service
• ​Ghetto Bird: Slang term used for police helicopter
• GMH: Gardena Memorial Hospital
• GOA: Gone On Arrival
• GSR Kit: Gunshot Residue Kit...used by forensics in evidence collection.
• GSV: Gunshot victim
• Harbor: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (i.e.: ...Transporting patient to Harbor)
• HBD: Has been drinking
• “The Highway” or PCH: Pacific Coast Highway
• "The Jetty:" The rock pile deflecting the surf just west of Esplanade/Topaz St in Redondo Beach
• JO: Just occurred (i.e.: ...units respond to a 459 JO)
• K9: Police dog
• LACOFD: Los Angeles County Fire Department
• LACOSO or LASD: Los Angeles County Sheriff
• LAFD: Los Angeles (City) Fire Department
• LAPD: Los Angeles Police Department
• LASD: Los Angeles Sheriff Department
• LCM: Little Company of Mary Hospital
• "Man Ave" Another way to say Manhattan Avenue...not to be confused with Manhattan Beach Blvd.
• MBB: Manhattan Beach Boulevard
• MDT: Mobile Data Terminal...the computer in a police car.
• McCormick: Ambulance Service
• MedAlert: Term used by police to contact hospitals in the area to be on the lookout for shooting victims. (i.e.: ...everyone fled the scene after the shots were fired...you better send a MedAlert).
• NARCAN: Short for Naloxone. It's a drug that can treat a narcotic overdose in an emergency situation
• NCIC: National Crime Information Center
• NFD: No Further Description
• NFI: No Further Information
  Non-desirous: Victim does not want to press charges (i.e.: ...the clerk just wants the stolen merchandise back)
• OIS: Officer involved shooting
• "On the patch": is an LASD crime broadcast for something significant that usually just occurred
• PDM: Paseo Del Mar
• "Ped": Pedestrian (i.e.: ...the accident was vehicle vs. ped)
• PV: Palos Verdes
• RBB: Redondo Beach Boulevard
• Redondo Beach Ave: N/S road between Marine Ave and MBB...Not to be confused with Redondo Ave or Redondo Beach Blvd
• Res: Residence
• RIC: Rapid Intervention Crew (is a fire dept. term)
• RIP: Registration in process
• RO: Registered owner (of the vehicle)
• RPV: Rancho Palos Verdes
• SBRPCA or “South Bay”: South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority (Dispatch)
• SCC: Sheriff's Communications Center (LASD Dispatch)
• SEB: LASD term used for the Special Enforcement Bureau (Special Weapons Teams).
• Shelter-in-Place: This is a precaution aimed to keep you safe while remaining indoors (i.e.: ...active shooter roaming the streets, send an alert to residents in the area to shelter-in-place)
• "Slow roll": Back-up request, non-emergency request
• SO: Sheriff's Office
• Strong Arm: A form of armed robbery by the user of bodily force
• TFD: Torrance Fire Department
• “The Strand”: Essentially, it's the North/South bike/walk path that runs from 45th St to about Herondo St
• TMH: Torrance Memorial Hospital
• UTL: Unable to locate (the suspect, the victim, the vehicle, etc.)
• VDM: Vista Del Mar
• Vic: Abbreviated way to say "Victim"
• Waterline: Where surf meets sand (i.e.: Units patrolling the waterline looking for passed out drunks on the beach)
• WC: Watch Commander
• Wit: An abbreviated way to say "Witness" 

211: Armed Robbery

242: Assault & Battery

245: Assault with a deadly weapon

2735 or 273.5: Domestic Violence

311: Indecent exposure (code also used for drunks urinating behind the bars in HB)

415: Disturbance (415 loud party, 415 subject on a bus, 415 construction, etc.)

459: Burglary

459 audible: Burglar alarm going off

5149 (or 5149.5): [Unofficial] term used by law enforcement for someone who isn't quite 5150 (half-crazy).

5150: Crazy person

911B: Meet with Officer
925A: Suspicious person
927: Unknown trouble

927C: Check the area (for the suspect)

10-1: Your radio sounds like crap

10-2: Your radio sounds good

10-4: OK-Acknowledged

10-6: Busy (i.e.: Can you respond to the call? No, I'm 10-6).

10-9: Repeat what you just said

10-17: Enroute (to the call)

10-20: What's your location

10-21: Contact by phone

10-22: Disregard/Cancel

10-27: Drivers license check

10-28: Registration check (Is this vehicles registration current and active?)

10-29: Veh stolen check (is this vehicle stolen?)

10-33: Hold the channel for emergency traffic

10-35F (Frank): Felony warrant

10-35M (Mary): Misdameanor warrant

10-35P (Paul): Probation

Code 3: Lights and Siren (also referred to as "Rolling Code")

Code 4: All clear, everything is under control

Code 6: Officer is busy on a call

Code 20: Officer welfare check