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| MEMO FROM COMMUNICATIONS BUREAU TO ALL POLICE OFFICERS. SUBJECT: RADIO ROOM REMINDERS |
| We dispatchers, being 25 % mental and 75 % professional, give to you our point of view. Please let it be known that: 1. When you are given a call, we don't care if you are leaving the East Side of Anywhere...... JUST GO! 2. When given a call, do not say any sentence that begins with "Okay, but first put me out at .......". When you are on a self-initiated call, say so then; not two days later. 3. We CALL tows, we don't drive them and we can't make them hurry. They have 30 minutes. 4. It's not a plot to get you. When you are responding to a traffic accident, we really don't know what side of the street the wreck is on. We don't have crystal ball, x-ray vision or ESP. 5. If we say something is not in the computer, IT REALLY ISN'T. 6. The computers really do slow down and go down. And often. 7. Hang out on your calls, we don't care. But when your fellow officer in the same sector does it, and you have to respond to his call, get mad at him.... not us. 8. Know that we DO call you names, just as quick as you call us names. 9. We really do have only 2 hands, 2 feet, 2 ears, and one mouth. We really don't have an assistant helping us with all your requests, so please show us a little patience. 10. Emergency traffic means just that. SHUT UP and LISTEN for the ALL CLEAR!! You would be the first one to raise hell if you were the one that needed the radio. 11. At shift change, calls do not stop coming in. We don't care if you pass the call along to the Chief himself as long as it's off our screen. 12. Those radios in your hands have a two-second delay. USE IT. Your transmissions do break up, and above all.... we TALK on the radio, we don't work on them. We can't twist our bodies into antennas or stand on our heads for better reception. 13. We know that some of you get excited and scream. That's okay, but to those of you who sceram to clear for your lunch break, run a plate, asked for a time check, well...... we reserve those "special calls" (sex assaults, rollover DUI accidents, DOA's or any other call that has alot of paper) just for you. 14. And finally..... we all have one thing in common. We all must be a little weird for choosing these jobs, or we wouldn't be here. We respect the job you do, so please give us that respect in return. With humor and well wishes, Be safe Your Dispatchers :) |