Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Police Jargon Exercise

1. At about 2:30pm, the male person got out of the suspected stolen car and ran in a north westerly direction. The male person was later seen within the area of Stuart Street in Griffith.

2. At approximately 3:00pm, police operations received a call from somebody at the communication centre to advise them that two male persons and one female person had escaped from the Belconnen Remand Centre. Members of the Belconnen Criminal Investigations Team and TIG are now investigating the matter.

3. At approximately 5:30pm, a female person was taken to the Canberra Hospital after having her bag snatched near the Ainslie Shops. The female person stated that the bag snatcher appeared to be in his early 20s, 6 feet 3 inches tall, of Aboriginal decent and wearing a blue shirt and black shorts. The bag snatcher was later found by police and taken to the city police station where he was put in prison.

4. On March 27, at approximately 8:00pm, two men got involved in a heated argument outside King O’Malleys in Civic. One of the men proceeded to hit the other in the head several times before he ran away from the area.

1 comment:

Toni Purnell said...

Sentence 1 - 'man' can replace 'male person' and instead of 'within', 'in' is just fine!

2. Again, consider using 'man' and 'woman' instead of 'male/female person'. Also, be aware that people wouldn't know what 'TIG' meant! you would need to clarify this jargon.

3 & 4 - well simplified