In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto (Latin: "in blazing offence"), or simply in flagrante, a legal term, indicates that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare ). The colloquial "caught " or "caught rapid" are English equivalents. The phrase combines the present active participle "flagrāns" (flaming or blazing) with the noun "dēlictum" (offence, misdeed, or crime). In this term the Latin preposition "in", not indicating motion, takes the ablative. The closest literal translation would be "in blazing offence", where "blazing" is a metaphor for vigorous, highly visible action. In Japan, the phrase's translation, "Genkōhan"
Cleaner (crime) someone, usually a member of a crime organization or a covert government agency, who disposes of a corpse after a hit. A fixer plays a similar but often less hands-on role, minimizing bad publicity for public officials or media figures by quelling stories of their misadventures. However, the fixer may also be capable of more heavy handed tactics, as necessary. In contrast, legal crime scene cleanup is a legitimate industry, eliminating blood and other biohazardous materials such as dangerous chemicals used in an illegal drug lab as permitted by responsible authorities. A fictional example of a cleaner is Shoulders from