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Things I'd Love to SAY
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Posted 4 months ago
Things as a dispatcher you wish you could say, but can’t
To the great citizens who call in:
No, the officers don't type up your call then respond to it.
If your first response to "911, what's your emergency?" is "Uuuhm", "Hey, how you doing?" or "Yes, I have a question...", then it's not an emergency. We're the Sheriff’s Office, not the world's biggest atlas. There ARE some places in the county that we aren't aware of. "At home" or "at my sister's house" isn't the right answer to "Where are you?" No, we won't authorize you to run the stop lights even if you're heading to the hospital. Let the paramedics run the lights for you. There's a big difference between 9-1-1 and 4-1-1. Please exercise that difference accordingly. Having a family member or a friend that works for the PCSO in any capacity doesn't excuse you from any law you break in any way, shape or form. 9 times out of 10, the story will change by the time the deputies arrive. Calling 911 on someone just because they called the cops on you isn't going to get a report taken on the incident. "Having it on record" means an actual written report, not saying it over a recorded line. We love cell phones. We really love cell phones that can only make outgoing 911 calls. You are just as guilty for leaving the scene of an accident as the person you're chasing. Why is it so simple to remember your 9-digit social security number and not your 6-digit license plate? Don't put BOTH registrations in the glove compartment. Ladies, if he hit you before he'll do it again. "He's right here" isn't the answer to "What's does he look like?" The louder you yell the more difficult it is to understand you. "He ain't nobody to me" isn't the answer to "Who is he to you?" Calling in to see if we've found your stolen vehicle isn't going to help us find it any faster. We ask for your name and telephone number for a reason. Power and Light is the electricity service provider not The Sheriff's Office The report needs to be taken within the jurisdiction where the crime occurred not in the jurisdiction you waited to call from. "Doesn't live in this area" doesn't mean he's not a new resident. That sound you hear means the line is being recorded… not prompting you to say "hello?" after every beep. If you're able to make a call from a payphone, you're able to tell us the name of the store that payphone belongs to. North, East, South and West are great cardinal directions to know. To the Officers: If we dispatched you to the call, we didn't take it also. Let's switch jobs for 4 hours. We're like your second husbands/wives. We ALWAYS want to know where you are. We know you're busy. That's why we ask X4? twice. Don't ignore us both times. We're not as mean as we sound. Don't yell at us. We weren't the ones running from you. Neither one of our first, middle or last names is "Radio". It takes the same amount of time to respond to a priority call across the sector as it does to respond to a cover call a block away. Oh, and WE don't like cover calls either. If the complainant steps out, how much do you wanna bet they expect to see you in front of the house? We're psychic. I got something bigger than yours...CAD screens. Everyday we pray for the ability to fix your MDT's. We have bad days, too. Announcing holding calls once means "to make you aware", announcing twice means "ok, you need to get X8 to take this call". I may not be your favorite dispatcher but I'm going to make sure you get home safely just as well. You keep us safe every day/night; of COURSE we appreciate what you do. Thank you for putting your lives at risk every day to make sure we get to and from work safely.
CYA ROUND THE GROUNDS
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| Posted 4 months ago Awesome and oh SO true. |
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| Posted 4 months ago WOW.....just don't forget to clear me for lunch, please!!!!! LOL I feel like a crouton in a white trash salad!!! |
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| Posted 4 months ago You forgot : Call : "Call me an ambulance!" Dispatcher : "OK, you're an ambulance!" I feel like a crouton in a white trash salad!!! |
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| Posted 4 months ago I LOVE IT!!!! |
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| Posted 4 months ago i'm sorry this is 911 not 411 please hang up and try again. If you feel you have reached this number in error please consult your phone book. |
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| Posted 4 months ago A great post. |
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| Posted 4 months ago Thanks!!! That was great and oooooooohhhhhh so true...no matter what dept u work for!! Don't wait for something to happen to YOU...YOU go out and happen to something!!!! |
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| Posted 4 months ago Perfect! |
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| Posted 4 months ago Answer with "SHUT UP" and then hang up the phone.... |
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| Posted 4 months ago I love this! I am still laughing!! My all time favorite is "We're Psychic" - of course what I told the sgt was, "d*mn I forgot my crystal ball today sir so I couldn't tell ya." But he understood what I meant, guess he was psychic, as he wrote me up. Some things must be done. Consequences being weighed and all... |
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| Posted 4 months ago 10-4 radio.... I'm not "really" a troll....I just love changing my avatar... because...
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| Posted 4 months ago Great Post!! I've always wished for a "Sadie Hawkins" type day for law enforcement...........one where we could answer calls for service and deal with the folks the way we really want to sometimes............ |
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| Posted 4 months ago After a DUI suspect says he only had two beers. I ask were they KEGS |
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| Posted 4 months ago LOL!! |
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| Posted 4 months ago and "I"m sorry, I left my crystal ball at home today" great post-thank you |
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| Posted 4 months ago funny |
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| Posted 4 months ago Great post.... how well I remember! They told (us) to open up the Embassy, or "we'll blow you away." And then they looked up and saw the Marines on the roof with these really big guns, and they said in Somali, "Igaralli ahow," which means "Excuse me, I didn't mean it, my mistake".
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| Posted 4 months ago I think its funny when they ask me if I can see what they are talking about like- "hey did you see that?" Or "look its over there" and my office has no windows and I want to say "I cant see that far." |
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| Posted 4 months ago Funny! That looks awesome. Haha |
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| Posted 3 months ago That was AWESOME...
You forgot: "OK, let me get this straight, LT. You're calling me from a perfectly working phone complete with a dial pad with NUMBERS on it so that I can call So-and-So and tell him to call you back? What, did they take away your direct access privilidge today?
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| Posted 3 months ago Please PAY ATTENTION to the damn radio so I dont have to call your cell phone and your wife checks it days later and you really ARE at work!!!! (sigh) |
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| Posted 2 months ago My crystal ball was painted over when they built our new courthouse! Then our 911 center was moved to a different location! Sorry 'bout your luck. I've always wanted to tell those few Officers and/or Fire/Med units who really don't think before they open there mouth and say they can't find their destination....the biggest giveaway that you are there would be the big red firetruck with flashing red lights, the cruiser with flashing blue lights or the house with the flames coming out of the roof! I think the world of everyone of my guys but sometimes things just come out before they think and it really makes my day-----Stress Relief!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Posted 2 months ago Schmancie says ...
Everyone hating on FHP "You know where you are, and God knows where you are... but if your dispatcher doesn't know where you are, you and God had better be on good terms."
Polk County Sheriff Graddy Judd When asked why law enforcement officers shot an LEO murder suspect a certain number of times. His reply, "Because they ran out of bullets!!" This was his reply after |
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| Posted 2 months ago Certain emergency crews responding request description of the crashed car...."It would be the one upside down and crunched into the light pole!" In God we trust...all others checked thru NCIC. |
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| Posted 2 months ago so true. great post. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago I just wanted to say that DISPATCHERS ROCK....Your our life line....Thank you all.... |
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| Posted about 1 month ago WE HAD A DOMESTIC SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THE FEMALE TRIED TO LEAVE AND THE MALE JUMPED ON HOOD OF CAR, PUT CALL OUT AND OFFICER ACTUALLY ASKED 'what color is the vehicle' I WANTED TO SAY 'the only car withj a male as a hood ornament |
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| Posted about 1 month ago I have found out from experience that if you piss off the dispatcher the probablity of going on a late call is multipled by a billion. And it will be a suspicious noise from an abandoned building with no complaint to see or a long paper call in another beat if one is available. My day begins when yours ends. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago BENKILE2428 says ...
That's happened to u too?...lol... Thought it was just where I lived!....Haha.... How 'bout this one.... Fire and rescue are responding to a traffic stop where the driver "happens" to be the suspect/victim of a stabbing.... (NOTE: It's 04:20, major intersection on a major highway, by that time approx 4 cruisers on loc. at the stop) Fire and rescue dispatch calls over the intercom to me and says "The ambo can't find them, can u adv a better loc.?..." I replied with "Tell them to look for the 4 blk veh's with the red and blu flashing lights on top and 4 men standing around another veh with guns starin at the chick covered in blood in the drivers seat!" 'One of these day's Edith.......Pow, right to the moon!!!!'.... wow... |