Acronym | Meaning |
ACPO | Association of Chief Police Officers |
AFAIK | As far as I know |
AFAIUI | As far as I understand it |
AIUI | As I Understand It |
ANPR | Automatic Number Plate Recognition |
BoR | 1689 Bill of Rights |
BTW | By the way |
CC | Chief Constable |
COFP | Conditional Offer of Fixed Penalty |
ECHR | European Convention on Human Rights. |
ECHR | European Court of Human Rights |
ECJ | Europen Court of Justice |
ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights. |
FPN | Fixed Penalty Notice |
FWIW | For what it's worth |
HA | Highways Agency |
HATO | Highways Agency Traffic Officer |
IIRC | If I recall correctly |
IMHO | In my humble (or honest) opinion |
IOW | In other words |
LA | Local Authority |
Laser | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
Lidar | LIght (beam) Distance And Ranging |
LOL | Laughing out loud |
NTO | Notice to Owner (name of an official document?) |
OP | Original Poster |
OTOH | On the other hand |
PACE | Police And Criminal Evidence Act |
PCN | Penalty Charge Notice (sometimes Parking Charge Notice for those civil parking affairs) |
PTR | Pre Trial Review |
Radar | RAdio Distance And Ranging |
RK | Registered Keeper |
ROTFL | Rolling on the floor laughing |
ROTFLMAO | Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off |
RTA | Road Traffic Act |
RTFM | Read the f****** manual |
RTOA | Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 |
RVLR | Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations |
?SCP | <county name> "safety" camera partnership |
trafpol | Traffic police officer |
Truvelo | South African company who make weapons including shotguns and sniper rifles. Oh and "traffic law enforcement equipment" |
TSRGD | Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (usually 2002) |
For a fuller list of general acronyms try: http://www.muller-godschalk.com/acronyms.html