stick someone on

stick someone on

English

Verb

stick someone on

1. (Britain, law enforcement, slang) To charge someone with an offence.
   • 1931, The Police Journal (volume 4, page 501)

     […] took him to the nick, stuck him on, and he spent the night in the flowery.

   • 1995, Verbatim (volume 22, issue 3, page 13)

     You can be stuck on for anything from serious misconduct to minor infringements of the police's absurdly draconian and catch-all disciplinary codes, which make it possible for a senior officer with a grudge against a junior to stick him on for almost anything. For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.

   • quoted in 2005, Mike McConville, ‎Dan Shepherd, Watching Police, Watching Communities (page 200)

     But because you're under pressure for numbers and it looks good on your report that you done x number of processes, you can't come in and say 'Well, I didn't stick him on because I felt that it was a better result just to tell him off.'