POLAC

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See also: polac, polăc, polać, and połać

English

Etymology 1

Blend of police +‎ accident

Noun

POLAC (plural POLACs)

  1. (UK, law enforcement) Alternative letter-case form of polac
    • 2019, Darren Moor, How To Survive Your Police Career‎, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN:
      I doubt that the organisation is going to be terribly concerned that you arrive at that call thirty seconds later than you would have done otherwise but can be pretty sure that they would have something to say had you smashed up your police car on the way there. I doubt also that CPS would be satisfied with the defence of '...It was my first night duty … and I was rather tired...' after your high profile POLAC gets splashed all over the national newspapers and television news.
    • 2015 January 14, Jessica Davies, “Pc moved into office role 'after telling bosses blue-flashing lights on police cars don't work'”, in The Telegraph‎:
      And it really brought it home to me when I was involved in my own POLAC (police accident) in March 2012.
    • 2015, Martin Edwards, The Dungeon House‎, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:
      First, a woman goes missing, and leaves her things and a mysterious note in her car. Now a POLAC with a DCI in the passenger seat.
    • 2018 February 1, StopFightingTheDog, “That moment you have a POLAC . . . in the middle of the day in town . . . whilst being recorded for a television programme”, in Reddit‎, r/PoliceUK:
      When you have an at fault POLAC on camera!

Etymology 2

Blend of police +‎ academy

Noun

POLAC (uncountable)

  1. (Nigeria, law enforcement) The Police Academy of Nigeria.

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