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ORIGINATED POLICY – a policy that comes from
top management level and is intended to set up
guidelines in the operation of the police
organization.

OUTCRY – to shout subversive or proactive words
tending to stir up the people to obtain by means of
force or violence.

OUT-OF-TOWN CHECK – a check being presented
for encashment before any bank not within the
territory where the issuing bank is located.

OVERDOSE – is when the amount of a drug taken
exceeds the body's ability to cope with the drug;
results in acute adverse physical or psychological
effects, including stupor, coma, respiratory
depression or death.

OVERLAP – used in traffic signaling, is right-of-way
indication that is derived from the service of two or
more traffic phases.

OVERLOADING – use of one or more electrical
appliances or devices which draw or consume
electrical current beyond the design capacity of the
existing electrical system.

OVERT ACTS – an act of some physical activity or
deed, indicating the intention to commit a
particular crime, more than a mere planning or
preparation, which if carried to its complete
termination following its natural course, without
being frustrated by external obstacles nor by the
voluntary desistance of the perpetrator, will

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