Basic Trope: The police have a code for any and every situation.
- Straight: Illegal parking has code 18-12.
- Exaggerated: A stray kitten has code 73-2.
- Downplayed:
- The police have a code for some situations, but not all.
- The code refers to the penal code section that best applies, letting the police know how to initially approach the situation.
- The police is either Crazy-Prepared, or worse yet, dealt with something similar before.
- Justified:
- "We don't want any criminals listening in to know what we're talking about."
- It would take much more time describing what the heck is going on to a "T" than saying the code/location/specifics like asking for ambulances for injured people standard.
- Inverted: Something happens that the police don't have a code for.
- Subverted: The police code for 'platypus robbing bank'is 'bank-robbinging-Plat!'
- Double Subverted: Which is then of course encrypted to 'Z2-G12 LI'
- Parodied: There's a code for donut shop closure.
- Zig Zagged: Bob finds an illegally parked car, and says "Code 18-12, I repeat, code 18-12" over the radio. Then someone on the other end of the radio says: "That's not a code!" Then Bob says "It's code for an illegally parked car, did you forget?" to which the person on the other side of the radio says "I didn't, I made the codes!"
- Averted: The police clearly describe the situation without using codes.
- Enforced: "We need to throw in a gag, make a police code for something absurd, like an illegally parked car!"
- Lampshaded: The cop calls in a biblical plague. The ride along says "Wow, they've got a code for everything."
- Invoked: "Look, team, we need to document everything that could possibly go wrong, and encapsulate these scenarios into short code names, so as to communicate more effectively."
- Exploited: "I got this manual with all the police codes. All I gotta do is listen in, and make my move!"
- Defied: "It's a new age, officer, these cyber-criminals will crack our jargon in a matter of days; we need something new!"
- Discussed: "I bet these coppers got a code number for everything."
- Conversed: "Why don't they just say 'It's an illegally parked car'? That would be much easier."
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