Electronic Advise Needed...

[Metro Guy]

As a motorcycle traffic officer, I have 30-40 contacts a day. Most folks I stop are pleasant, and know they deserve the citation. However, there are those few that go nuts, and have a tantrum. Some of these end up with calls to my sergeant, or IAB.

Department policy is all complaints get investigated, regardless of how ridiculous they look. I've yet to have a sustained complaint for discourtesy (or anything else, for that mater.) Problem is, time is wasted on the investigations, and it's just a pain for all involved.

So, I need to start audio recording and saving all of my contacts. I would like to find a digital audio recorder that would do the following things:

• Good audio quality. Must be able to pick up both sides of the conversation whether I'm talking to a guy in a Semi cab or Porsche Boxter.
• Lots of storage. I would like to be able to save at least a weeks worth of stops.
• Downloadable to my home computer. That way I could save everything to the hard drive and file them by date. If I get a complaint, it would be easy to go back and find the conversation.
• Shock and waterproof. A must as I'm on two wheels.
• Small enough to put on the front of my belt or shirt epilate.
• Easy to turn on and off with one hand.

All suggestions welcome!

TIA
Dan

[greenlead]

See this thread: http://forums.realpolice.net/showthread.php?t=69198

[Metro Guy]

Cool, thanks for the link...