How to ask the time

 How to ask the time.

These are some of the ways Americans ask and respond about time.

Exercise 1: Practice aloud the following questions and answers.

Exercise 2: Switch sides, repeat, try different times.

As with other American English subjects, there are more than several ways to ask the same question. 

Q1.    Can you tell me the time? 

A. Yes, it’s two thirty in the morning. 

Q2.    Do you have the time? 

A. It’s three pm.

Q3.    Do you know the time? 

A. It’s ten after eleven.

Q4.    What is the time? 

A. I have twenty to ten or nine forty.

Q5.    What time have you got? 

A. I’ve got five to five.

Q6.    What time is it? 

A. It’s three ten.

Q7.    Are we out of time? 

A. We’ve got fifteen minutes, almost out of time.

Q8. Do you know the time?

A. We are going to be ten minutes late.

Police terms

Understanding the terms used by officers, other operators, and citizens is an important part of
properly assessing and dispatching calls for service. Some of these terms can be considered
jargon or slang. Following is a list of common terms found on the job:
3511 A vehicle that has been impounded for a mandatory 30 days
A.P.S. Arizona Public Service
A.S.A.P. As soon as possible
A.T.F. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
BAILED OUT Subject jumped out of car and ran
BYFRND Boyfriend
BEER RUN Shoplifting beer
BONDOUT Prisoner who is going to post bail and be released
BEEN MADE/BURNED Undercover officer's ID is known
BHND Behind
BIKE Motorcycle
BIKERS Motorcycle riders
BOOKING Booking prisoner into jail 
BREAKING UP Radio transmissions are not being received clearly
BUSTED Arrested
C.C.W. Carrying concealed weapon
C.O. Civilian observer
COMP Complainant
C.L.D. Citation in lieu of detention
CRACK, ROCK Smokeable form of cocaine
D.E.B. Drug Enforcement Bureau
DIX Detectives
D.O.A. Dead on arrival
D.O.B. Date of birth
D.O.C. Department of Corrections
D.P.S. Department of Public Safety
DRIVE BY Shots fired from a moving vehicle
E.O.C. Emergency Operations Center 
EQUIPMENT Police vehicle
E.R. Emergency Room
E.T.A. Estimated time of arrival
F.A.A. Federal Aviation Administration
F.B.I. Federal Bureau of Investigation
F.I. Field Interrogation (Form 36 card)
FILE STOP Notation put in police record; File Stops are confirmed
by R&I Bureau
FLIR Device used by aircraft to check for heat sources
F.O.J. From other jurisdiction
FRONT DESK Information Desk at main station
FUGITIVE A wanted person
GAS WASH/WASHDOWN Fire Department needed to wash gas down
G.C.I. /B.A. Test used to determine blood alcohol content
G.I.B. General Investigations Bureau 
GOT THE EYE In view (on a code 5)
GRN Green
HOND Honda
HIT Subject or item wanted
H.G.N. Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (a test for detecting drug / alcohol
use)
HOBBLES Nylon rope used for legs and hand restraint
HOOK Wrecker
HSE House
ICE, CRYSTAL Smokeable methamphetamine
J.C.C. Juvenile Corrections Center
J.P. Justice of the Peace
JUMPED ON Assaulted
JUMPER Person attempting suicide by jumping
LADDER Fire Department ladder truck
MARQUIS Test for narcotics 
M.D.C. Mobile Digital Computer (Police car computer)
MEDICS Paramedics
MERZ Mercedes Benz
MHP Mobile Home Park
MOTOR Solo motor unit
NUMBER 1 SITUATION Probable cause for arrest
NUMBER 9's Citations
OD Overdose
ONE FROM LIST Contract wrecker (926)
ONE ON ONE Suspect / witness I.D.
ONE ROLL Fingerprints
O.V. On view, officer just witnessed an incident

PAGE 2 Additional charges filed on a subject already in custody
P.C. Probable cause
PLE Purple 
P.O. Probation officer
RESTRAINTS Leather straps used to restrain prisoners
RINGER Audible alarm
ROLLOVER Accident involving overturned vehicle
R.P. Responsible party
S/E/C Southeast corner
SEIZURE Impound a vehicle; subject having convulsions
SGT Sergeant
SILENT Silent alarm
SLIM JIM Device used to open locked vehicle
SMASH & GRAB Broke out window, grabbed items and ran
S.O./M.C.S.O. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
S.R.P. Salt River Project
STRIPPED Vehicle stripped
TECH Radio or computer technician 
THIRTY-SIX Field interrogation (or form 36)
THREE WHEELER Police 3-wheeled motorcycle
TILL TAP Grab money from register
DISPATCH AN ANIMAL To shoot an animal
TRAFFIC BOX KEY Key used to open traffic signal control box
XHUSB Ex-husband
WAGON/WAGON Police paddy wagon