Acknowledgements

This dictionary draws heavily on the pioneering work in police English lexicography by Prolingua, Cambridge Research Laboratories, Cambridge University.

The project partners would like to express their appreciation for the support, encouragement and expertise offered to the project by Professor Ed Johnson and Dr Mark Garner and for their permission to use base dictionary entries on the PoliceSpeak Police Communications and Language English-French-Lexicon.

More information from http://www.prolingua.co.uk/

We would also like to express our appreciation to Professor Enn Veldi from the University of Tartu for his help in supporting this project .

The current project partners would like to express their appreciation to Robert Buckmaster for laying foundation for the project and training the team of compilers.

Our appreciation is also expressed to Merle Tammela for coordinating the project and to the administration of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences for supporting the project.