High Ranking Police Officers have to memorise them and cadets have to briefly know the more important ones.
Officers should use this code to communicate on the cop radio.
148 - Resisting/obstructing a police officer
164 - Suicide (since repealed)
187 - Murder
192 - Manslaughter
203 - Mayhem
207 - Kidnapping
211 - Robbery
215 - Carjacking
219 - Train wrecking ? see, e.g. 2005 Glendale train crash
236-237 - False imprisonment
240 - Assault
242 - Battery
245 - Assault with a deadly weapon (ADW, sometimes "great bodily injury," GBI) or with force likely to produce great bodily injury
261 -
****280 - Child abduction
285 - Incest
288 - Child molestation
314 - Indecent exposure
415 - Disturbing the peace/mutual combat
417 - Brandishing a firearm
422 - Criminal threats
451 - Arson (see Fahrenheit 451)
459 - Burglary
470 - Forgery
484 - Theft or larceny
487 - Grand theft
488 - Petty theft
496 - Receiving stolen property
503-515 - Embezzlement
518-527 - Extortion
528-539 - False personation and cheats
594 - Malicious mischief/vandalism
597 - Animal cruelty
602 - Trespassing
647(b) - ****
647(f) - Public drunkenness or public intoxication
664 - Attempt (usually charged together with one of the above like 187 or 211; attempted murder was formerly covered in its own section, 217)