My main Officer complaints...

[james13f]

:p Mcsap :D

1. Cutting me off mid-sentence to talk (excluding dangerous, urgent or emergency situations).

This mostly occurs when a) Just switched to the current channel, and couldn't wait 2 seconds to verify no-one was talking, or b) Really not paying attention.

2. Cutting other Officers off mid-sentence to talk.

C'mon people, have some courtesy... there are a lot of you on one channel.

3. Not speaking clearly.

When your life could easily depend on people knowing where to come to, I'd think some would take a bit more effort to not mumble, or talk across the mike, or talk extremely fast.

4. Getting upset when I ask them to repeat.

Either a) #3 is in progress, b) the wind is blowing and all I got was :::whooosh::: or whatever other background noise, c) I was doing something else (like talking on conference, or bridge to medic, or calling a screaming complainant back) that THEY asked me to do, and I simply caught what you were saying mid-sentence.

My main dispatch complaints:

1. Calltakers not getting good descriptions, or names, or callback numbers... OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S IN THE FREAKIN' S.O.P. TO ASK FOR.

2. Yelling across the room. We have land-lines, use them people.

3. Getting stressed out. You're sitting down, in a temperature controlled room, typing on a computer. Life could be a LOT worse. I understand getting busy, or a bit hurried... but honestly freaking out is uncalled for.

4. Thinking you 'tell' Officers what to do. We have completely different jobs, that have different goals and requirements. In both some excel, and some are complete morons. There will always be the 10% that you have no idea how they live through a single day without serious injury or death.

[shugs]

They may not tell officers what to do, but they sure do tell us where to go

[WhiteLite]

I had one tonight. An officer was asking me to locate an out of state DL by name and DOB. He had several combos on the name. I tried every single one, and was still unable to locate. He then comes across with, "Car ** to Central, have your partner try and locate the DL."

WTF? Like I don't know how to fill out the form? lol (FYI, my partner didn't have any better luck than I did finding it.) :rolleyes: *sigh* one day, they will have faith, one day... :cool:

[StrikeEagle]

your dispatchers have partners? :confused:

[MrJim911]

Anybody in the dispatch room working with me is my "partner".

[CPDZone9]

We have partners on each radio zone. 2 assigned per zone. But then, we have 2 police districts per zone, too.

[troysig]

I had one tonight. An officer was asking me to locate an out of state DL by name and DOB. He had several combos on the name. I tried every single one, and was still unable to locate. He then comes across with, "Car ** to Central, have your partner try and locate the DL."

WTF? Like I don't know how to fill out the form? lol (FYI, my partner didn't have any better luck than I did finding it.) :rolleyes: *sigh* one day, they will have faith, one day... :cool:

Well, I admit I do it all the time. the county dispacher for my shift never runs the Info right and always come back "not on file" So I also call the 911 dispatcher (Larger city handles the 911 calls county wide) and have them run it, I usually always get stuff back with them.

too make things worse, This dispatcher lincs me (Southern Linc) and tells me the Sheriff says we're working too much traffic. So I call the sheriff and it holds no truth. So for revenge, I start to pop people left and right, ran vehicle and license info all night. She hates me, in fact she just came on 14 minutes ago, time for some fun

[DSG]

James,

I totally agree with everything your complaining about LOL.

I also hate it when some officers come on and just go ahead with their vehicle check before I have even said go ahead. I mean bad luck if I was already busy dealing with another car crew LOL...

Ah well I have learnt to put them in their place at times and we get along heaps well ;)

[Norm357]

My main officer complaint is


The bastards keep pulling me over.:mad:








:D

[StationM]

I'd complain about the K9's barking in the background....but it gives me the warm fuzzies every time!

[ChesCopPodz]

James,

I totally agree with everything your complaining about LOL.

I also hate it when some officers come on and just go ahead with their vehicle check before I have even said go ahead. I mean bad luck if I was already busy dealing with another car crew LOL...

Ah well I have learnt to put them in their place at times and we get along heaps well ;)

So you'd be #4 in the original post?

[DSG]

So you'd be #4 in the original post?

LOL yeah pretty much

[greenlead]

Because we are using a digital radio system, it is impossible for officers to "step on" each other. If an officer needs to get on the radio RIGHT NOW, that officer can use the panic button, which locks the channel so only s/he can talk.

[cntryboy0531]

LOL yeah pretty much

It wasn't meant as a compliment. Any dispatcher that "trys" to put me in place, will result in my supervisor calling the Comm Center Desk Sgt for a little "chat" about the dispatcher.

[cntryboy0531]

:p Mcsap :D

1. Cutting me off mid-sentence to talk (excluding dangerous, urgent or emergency situations).

We have a guy on our shift, he's a bit newer than I am, that does that ALL the time. He's so excited to get on the radio (he walks around almost in a state of cat like readiness at ALL times), that he'll cut the dispatcher off to get whatever he has to say, across the radio. Or, just talk directly to the unit he's trying to talk with, over the main channels. Both of which are big no no's, and for the most part do annoy the mortal hell out of me.

It's actually to the point that it's expected that if you get on the radio, to have dispatch tell that unit something, he's going to cut off the dispatcher before the dispatcher even says anything. There's a reason why we put things through dispatch first, to keep the channels clear, and keep the channel running smoothly so that it's not a mad house of 50 units trying to get things across on the main channel. It irritates the hell out of me personally when he does it.