Soundoff
What makes you mad? Is there really a sop on callbacks? Are we really mandated to call the citizen back if the police ask us to? Why when a police officer asks to order a tow, your partner says, "Tell him to go in and call the ad desk!" Isn't it our job to order a tow? Why can't a calltaker ask questions of the citizen? Why when a job comes over the screen does it say in the remarks, "calling again?" Why can't a calltaker take the time out and type in all of the information regardless of how many times the citizen called? Why must a calltaker tell the citizen "ma'am the police were dispatched , they should be there shortly" when the calltaker, nor the dispatcher for that matter really know that? Why does one dispatcher stare at the screen as if the jobs are going to disappear and others work like dogs. Why does one calltaker take 200 plus calls and why does one take 80? Why does our refrigerator look so gross? Why were there sunflower seeds along the back wall the other day? Why are people always late to roll call and us fools are sitting there getting yelled at for those tardy? Why does "that " room send me a suspicious man call because a man is standing on the corner by himself? Ok I am done, now its your turn. Have a nice day!
posted by oldschoolcos @ 9/05/2007 04:01:00 PM
55 Comments:
At 05 September, 2007 23:33 ,
Anonymous said...
Why do call takers randomly upgrade events for no apparent reason? If you have to upgrade something usually there's another event type that is more appropriate. Disturbances are not upgraded because the caller is "Very Upset".
At 05 September, 2007 23:34 ,
Anonymous said...
Why were the school units disbanded? Why should the zone have to cover 4-5 high schools with 3-4 cars each during shift change when there are jobs pending?
At 05 September, 2007 23:36 ,
Anonymous said...
A car is not suspicious because it has been parked on the same block for 3 days. Furthermore call takers, if a car has been there 7 days or more start transferring these people to arp for an abandoned auto request and stop sending the events to the zone. It doesnt matter if the caller insists. Certain events are MANDATORY Arp events. Politely tell the citizen that then transfer them. And stop sending accidents over because you are too afraid to tell the caller to take their driveable a/a into the station.
At 06 September, 2007 02:30 ,
Anonymous said...
Why do the crossing guards NEVER show up to work???? And the districts are forced to cover 4-5 school crossings in the mornings, AND at dismissals????
Why doesn't Neighborhood Relations cover the school crossings? Or better yet- how about the teachers and/or the parents handle these crossings??? After all, you're just helping the kids cross the street,..... if a freaken Boy Scout can do it, then they can too - it is NOT a job that REQUIRES a POLICE OFFICER!!!!!!
There's only 2 days of school so far this year and I'm already pissed off about this. Can ya tell?
At 06 September, 2007 02:33 ,
Anonymous said...
Taken from the original post:
"Why does one dispatcher stare at the screen as if the jobs are going to disappear and others work like dogs? "
Great question! Why do the dogs never seem to get in trouble? Why do they walk around all day, constantly making excuses to get up? We ALL know who they are. Even the Supv's know who they are. Why are they turning a blind eye to this?
At 06 September, 2007 12:29 ,
Anonymous said...
Why do the dogs never seem to get in trouble? Why do they walk around all day, constantly making excuses to get up? We ALL know who they are. Even the Supv's know who they are. Why are they turning a blind eye to this?
2:33 AM
Boy you must really be stupid if you can't see the corelation between those who work and those that don't, why not say something to them yourself and put THAT GREAT BIG BULLSEYE on your back.
At 06 September, 2007 19:37 ,
Anonymous said...
why can't some call takers understand that if you are the victim of a crime you CANNOT be anonymous.....ie. dombat...sent over to the zone, baby's daddy beat me and he is in front anonymous. and also that supervisor requests cannot be anonymous....if they want a sgt they have to have a valid reason and they have to leave there name so said sgt can speak with them. and last why are batjo batvi and autopd or autopi being upgraded for no apparent reason....just because a vict is bleeding and faow doesn't mean it's not a regular old batvi.....and because a pedestrian was hit by a car does not make it a priority 1a upgrade.
At 06 September, 2007 20:39 ,
Anonymous said...
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At 06 September, 2007 23:41 ,
Anonymous said...
Why do they keep sending EMS tickets to the Police to assist the ambulance when it isn't needed? We get there and the EMS personnel tell us that they never requested us and don't need us. Can a fire calltaker explain this waste of Police resourses, please?
003 Sgt
At 07 September, 2007 00:26 ,
Anonymous said...
8:39 PM
You have TOO MUCH time on your hands!
At 07 September, 2007 21:56 ,
Anonymous said...
Hey guys and gals, thanks for everything u do up there.
-012 tact
At 07 September, 2007 22:10 ,
P.C.O.1.4EVER said...
Dear 7:37 PM:
I do not know how long ago you began your dispatching career here at OEMC, BUT, once upon a time, about nine years ago when I was trained as a PCO1, we were taught by our training instructors that EVERY SINGLE TIME a fire unit is responding to a call and requests a police unit to ride along with them, the job automatically becomes a 1A priority. Now, I'm talking training that took place WAAAAY back in 1998 here, when there were significantly fewer calls for service, both police AND fire related calls. Maybe that is the reason why these call takers of which you speak are upgrading the jobs with fire rolling to 1A status. I have heard from some folks that in subsequent training classes, this practice may not have been taught. However, there should be an S.O.P. somewhere that should spell it out for us. I wonder if anyone can dig one up.
At 07 September, 2007 23:00 ,
Anonymous said...
Damn,I'm retired CPD from old COS and sometimes I actually miss that job.......NOT!
At 09 September, 2007 19:22 ,
Anonymous said...
Not all call takers suck. Sometimes you have to READ the ENTIRE call BEFORE you press the button down to give it out!
At 10 September, 2007 00:04 ,
Anonymous said...
12:26
It's called "copy" and "paste." I don't have that much time on my hands. : ) Just wanted to spread a little love.
At 10 September, 2007 07:38 ,
Anonymous said...
Hey Mayor Daley, thanks for not hiring any more help. Thanks to you, I make more money than you and do less work than you. All I do is show up and they pay me double time, Isn't this a great city or what?
PS: Please don't hire anyone anytime soon, I want to buy an Escolade for mtself for christmas and want to see the look on the salesmans faces when I pay cash.
At 10 September, 2007 16:09 ,
Anonymous said...
To 07:38 am:
Oh, the key words in your post:
"all I do is show up". You are one of the biggest lazy asses that works days off & doubles and that's all you do is show up & sleep! You make me sick.
At 11 September, 2007 00:52 ,
Anonymous said...
Any dispatcher who does callbacks for field units is putting his or herself in a big fat trickbag. There is no SOP, general order, or directive which compels dispatcher to do this. Field units and/or their supervisors have sole responsibility for investigating requests for service and callers have some responsibility for a)being where they say they will be when they place the call and b) watching for CPD. If CPD does not make contact with a caller--because the caller is no longer at the location of service, because the copper doesnt want to get out of the car and ring the bell, or any other number of reasons--it is up to him or her to code the job accordingly. If you can find any old timers, former PCOIIIs or copper dispatchers, ask them how many times in the old room callbacks were performed. The answer is invariably "NEVER" How come today a 2 person zone inevitably has 1 person making callbacks at least 30% of the time?
At 11 September, 2007 08:00 ,
Anonymous said...
If you can find any old timers, former PCOIIIs or copper dispatchers, ask them how many times in the old room callbacks were performed. The answer is invariably "NEVER".
Actually we did call backs in the old room, just tried not to because it was a pain in the ass. You had to go through the city hall operator to get an outside line-but if there was a BEARS game on they wouldn't answer the phone so you couldn't get an outside line.
If you are too lazy to make a call back and tell them the police are outside, then its on you being a lazy dumbass, or maybe you just want to eat your chicken dinner at your console, or play your game boy, or do your sudoku, or paint your nails, or write your utility bills, or probably write your TOO FROM report about why you were late to roll call for the 113th time this year.
We also wrote up our own recoveries, did the tows from the zone, made educated decisions on what to make notifications on, and didn't put in a RAP ticket because you had 5 parkers, 2 requests from schools for a car to be on scene for school dismissal, and 2 suspicious auto [abandoned auto] calls on the board at change time. Its called manpower management. Give out all those bullshit tickets to the cars as they go in.
Also, we took the steals on CW3 and entered the steals on CW5. There was no "you have to call the AD DESK" to report the steal, or call the ad desk when you get in and order your tow.
With the emphasis on call taking stats it's amazing that the ad desks are required to do the job of the secondary dispatcher. I guess its because the secondary dispatcher doesn't want to be the secretary disptacher. Something you never had back in the old days. You did everything yourself and even ran your own computor for plates and name checks on all the zones except for 6-8-10-and 12 when your partner was on break.
The PO was told he couldn't multi-task and needed to be replaced. And in closing, as Mark M used to say, "as much as things change, things will always stay the same".
At 11 September, 2007 20:46 ,
Anonymous said...
If you are too lazy to make a call back and tell them the police are outside, then its on you being a lazy dumbass, or maybe you just want to eat your chicken dinner at your console, or play your game boy, or do your sudoku, or paint your nails, or write your utility bills, or probably write your TOO FROM report about why you were late to roll call for the 113th time this year.
Maybe its because the dispatcher is lazy, but more likely its because we are TIRED of doing the coppers work!! as this post just points out, why is the job of the DISPATCHER to advise the caller that the copper is outside? Could it be because the COPPERS are "TOO LAZY" to get out of their cars and do their jobs? like write reports when warranted? Or look around to see the victims of the crime? How many times have dispatchers actually called back callers only to be told, "oh i am talking to them now" or "have them step out of the squad car". The occasional callback, when genuinely warranted is reasonable. The callbacks now are ridiculous and overwhelming. In a 6.5 hour tour of duty, its not uncommon for dispatcher to be asked to do callbacks on over 50% of the calls. Why? Dispatchers are NOT secretaries and hey guess what, CPD agrees because its CPD who signed off on the ad desk handling tows, recoveries, rd numbers for coppers in the station, and the other stuff the zone SHOULD NOT be doing. The zone dispatchers job is to maintain officer safety and get the jobs out in that order. They cant do that if they are constantly doing coppers work.
At 12 September, 2007 08:53 ,
Anonymous said...
because we are TIRED of doing the coppers work!! as this post just points out, why is the job of the DISPATCHER to advise the caller that the copper is outside? Could it be because the COPPERS are "TOO LAZY" to get out of their cars and do their jobs? like write reports when warranted? Or look around to see the victims of the crime?
Perhaps the officers are trying to document the fact that they were on scene so they have evidence to back up their response to a CR of no police service.
As for the ad desks taking over dispatcher duties, that was due to the fact that because of the software glitches when the place first opened up, you really did need two dispatchers to try and catch everything you couldn't because of the 2 second delay in hitting the enter button and a response on the command line. Listen to the howls on the floor when the system slows for even 45 seconds. Compound that delay of 45 seconds into a 8 hour shift and its easy to see why they took some of your responsibilties away from you.
I must restate, the PO was taken out of OEC not because he couldn't multi-task but because the few PCOII's that could do the job were far too small. or perhaps I shouldn't say couldn't do the task but perhaps whined and cried that "it's too stressful, the cars on the street don't respect us, they talk back to us when we act stupid." Just look at the comments on this blog. If you have a thin skin, then you should go back to being a crossing guard or a 311 operator, or what ever rock you crawled out from under when your china man put you up for the job.
At 12 September, 2007 10:46 ,
Anonymous said...
Please
CPD was wholesale removed from OEC because Daley and the city council felt that the call center was more appropriately staffed by civilians. Coppers would be returned to the districts where they would, in theory, do police work rather than earn D2 pay for processing 911 calls--many of which, if one believes the stories, were never dispatched with hundreds of cards having "disappeared" at the end of each shift.
Gradually as the call volume increased, and more and more calls went to the zone (including dups which require alot of attention because one must update the original tickets w subsequent information) and missions/doc/etc became more frequent, the 2 person zone is more important for merely handling minute by minute operations maintaining officer safety and dispatching jobs. The CPD, nor the CPD union, apparently did not object strenuously enough (if at all) when these former "zone functions" were shifted to the ad desk. In fact it was enouraged by CPD in an effort to make zone dispatchers MORE accountable monitoring CPD radio traffic and keeping the boards updated and current. It cant really be done if one dispatcher is constantly engaged in secretarial duties which are more appropriately handled at the ad desk.
Most dispatchers could not care less whether the coppers "like" us, "whine" to us, or have any type of feelings whatsoever. It is about getting the job done, period with minimal interference. And trust me, if I had a chinaman do you think i would be working HERE? Nope I woulda had my chinaman set me up with a nice cushy spot down at headquarters, like many connected coppers,who by the way wouldnt know how to work the street or supervise if they had to. Oh unless of course, they were looking for the donut shop
At 12 September, 2007 13:54 ,
Anonymous said...
Most dispatchers could not care less whether the coppers "like" us, "whine" to us, or have any type of feelings whatsoever. It is about getting the job done, period with minimal interference.
Obviously you were hired after the FOP sold out the police officers assigned to COS. We could debate why the Mayor and Ciry Council decided to civilianize the unit but it would be like hitting our heads against the wall because we will never see eye to eye. Enough said, now stop the WHINING.
At 12 September, 2007 15:48 ,
Anonymous said...
We absolutely without a doubt, have more (higher percentage of) whinners up at OEMC than CPD will ever have.
At 12 September, 2007 17:03 ,
Anonymous said...
>>I must restate, the PO was taken out of OEC not because he couldn't multi-task but because the few PCOII's that could do the job were far too small.<<
Wow! Glad you restated that! What the hell does that even mean? A few competent civilians were too small so POs were taken out of the OEMC?
Zonk, zonk, zonk, does not compute. Seriously, what the hell are you trying to say?
Take a deep breath. Count to 10 slowly. Concentrate. Really hard.
Now, again, what the hell were you trying to say?
BTW, after the place opened, some POs left because they couldn't stand the bosses, some POs left because they were being assigned to pretty stressful positions whcih required new skills (fast typing), some POs left because they found spots where they felt they'd be more comfortable (001, ERPS, Midway, 005, 022), and maybe for some it was a mix of any of the three.
Regardless, the percentage of PCOIIs up there who can rock a zone is more or less the same percentage of POs who could. Maybe 25% can do the job well, and perhaps 5 or 10% can do it with their eyes closed.
Think of how many POs who worked up there you can't even remember. I can remember all the good (like REALLY good) ones out of 200 or 250 I worked with, and its about 20 or 25 more or less.
About the same as the percentage for civilians.
At 12 September, 2007 20:36 ,
Anonymous said...
Zonk, zonk, zonk, does not compute. Seriously, what the hell are you trying to say?
You are right - boy what was I trying to say - even I don't know what I was trying to say. I'm still tired of the same old whining though.
At 14 September, 2007 20:27 ,
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Why were the school units disbanded? Why should the zone have to cover 4-5 high schools with 3-4 cars each during shift change when there are jobs pending?
11:34 PM
Well, I'll tell ya, today I said a prayer, when it got to be that time and there was maybe two cars up in the district. This is just insane putting all these beat cars down for school dismissals.
You all do a great job up there, thank you
At 18 September, 2007 14:55 ,
Anonymous said...
To Whom it May Concern,
I don't know who checks these sent to this account, but I really hope it is a Chicago Police Officer. I am a daily white "consumer" of the Ida B Wells homes and other south side markets, and it seems as if the police just gun for us white men on the south side and west side. I don't even shop on the west side due to the police presence. For the most part, us white men (I speak for those of us whom don't believe we are black) are in and out of those markets faster than a roach in those same markets when the lights come on. We handle our business and we get the hell out of there. We aren't the ones robbing people and trying to get over on whomever we can, but you still gun for us. LAY OFF!!! We don't mean any harm. You know that sales in those "markets" on the south and west sides will never, ever cease, no matter what you do, so in the meantime, give the white boys a pass, we don't want to be there at those places as much as you, but like you, we have to.
Sincerely,
One Concerned White Boy
At 19 September, 2007 01:17 ,
Anonymous said...
It's always so funny to me when dispatchers feel they can relate with police work, because they sit in front of a computer and read out calls. I don't blame dispatchers for asking all these, "whys", because they just don't know a thing about police work but feel they can relate. If a copper asks for a callback on a domestic or a robbery, it's because contact can't be made and it's only for a documented request. Like one person said, we don't care if you "like" us or about your feelings..or something to that nature, it's about getting the job done. Most of that stuff police say over the air is not to enlighten the dispatcher, but to have a documented CYA in the event the tapes are requested. You see, dispatchers read out calls, and it's over with...you'll never deal with that call again, for the most part. Police respond to a call that can last for years. The time you got there, what was said on the radio, arrest procedures and so on will be looked into. Most of the time, a P/O gets out of the car, rings a bell, knocks on a door, or can't even get in. If the callback is requested, sometimes someone finally comes outside; sometimes they don't. I wonder who is the lazier person in this scenario..the p/o who "won't get out the car" or a dispatcher who is sitting down in front of a phone and bitches about making a call?
At 19 September, 2007 08:20 ,
Anonymous said...
117 am
i don't think that most dispatchers feel they can relate to police work.....when you guys are out there chasing im pretty sure that most of us realize that we are up in a chair on a radio talking.....we might feel some type of comradare with some of the p.o.'s that are civil toward us, but not in a way that we feel that we are part of the police force. when you guys ask for call backs...most of the time we don't do them cuz the call may be over an hour old and we don't want to get bitched at about why did it take you guys so long to get here and i don't need you anymore bitch....that really puts a damper on a day....we also don't do them cuz if your knocking on the door and we have a house phone number, what exactly is the point...if they don't answer the door for a fully uniformed police officer on the porch, chances are they ain't gonna answer the phone. but anywho most of us up there feel that we can be civil toward each other and make small talk to try and make the day go by faster for the both of us....but like you said its a game of cover your ass, and that's what we do up there too.....if it comes down to you or me im gonna pick me everytime.....
At 19 September, 2007 09:04 ,
Anonymous said...
To 1:17. A lot of dispatchers feel that they can relate to police work due to the fact that many are police groupies and have dated and or slept with enough P.O.s to fill a Roll Call Room. They think that they are the police by injection. I know this comment will get some nasty replies by dispatchers but if they're honest with themselves they'll know this is true.
At 19 September, 2007 09:53 ,
Anonymous said...
Your comment is so right 9:04. More than a few names come to mind right away. I won't mention any but we all know who the regulars are at watch and Christmas parties. And they're not invited because thay make good conversation. Hell, I know of one dispatcher at OEMC who has worked at 4 or 5 differnt departments and dated and slept with coppers at each one.
At 19 September, 2007 10:23 ,
Anonymous said...
....we also don't do them cuz if your knocking on the door and we have a house phone number, what exactly is the point....
If you actually think most calls are from houses with porches then you should get out more. The call-back is requested when we have a large multi-unit building with no names on the bells (if they have bells at all) and no numbers on the doors. To call the ONE person back who requested us is safer than knocking on ALL the doors and having numerous people involved with whatever police service we are attemping to provide.
At 19 September, 2007 23:52 ,
Anonymous said...
What about when you ask for a call back and the person answers the phone and asks why the police officers arent getting out of the car and coming up to the door? What are you suppossed to say then?
At 20 September, 2007 09:18 ,
Anonymous said...
1023
i don't have to get out more....i know there are alot of apt buildings out there with no name, and that is a justifyable call back situation...but that's not what im talking about....im talking about HOUSES, which is what i said if we have a HOUSE phone number and they aren't answering the HOUSE phone, then what is the point cuz if we do the call back to the HOUSE phone then it will just go to the HOUSE which you tried knocking on and if they don't answer the HOUSE door for the po po then they probably ain't gonna answer the HOUSE phone......and that's what i usually tell the police, i understand why you have to request the call back for the record, but if your requesting and its a house number i say for the record "if they don't answer the door, they probably won't answer the phone to the house, handle accordingly" besides it's not like we are just sitting up there scratching our butts.......it is very busy up there and you might think that just because we are sitting at a desk or console, that we aren't doing crap all day, but that is not true.....at least not on the busy zones. for one call there can be 5-10 tickets with extra information that we have to add to the original....not to mention the idiots that call the police then call back with a totally different address and then call again to say that they moved to a different district and we have to keep track of that. it's not really that easy to do.
At 22 September, 2007 00:48 ,
Anonymous said...
To 1:17am, I'd like to comment on something you said.
"You see, dispatchers read out calls, and it's over with...you'll never deal with that call again, for the most part. Police respond to a call that can last for years. The time you got there, what was said on the radio, arrest procedures and so on will be looked into. "
I'm glad you added "for the most part" because maybe you really do realize that once we give the call out- OUR PART in it is NOT always over. There are PLENTY of dispatchers and calltakers who get these fricken subpeonas to show up in court in reference to an event from 6 months ago, from 1 year ago, from 3 years ago !!, like we're supposed to have ANY recollection of the original incident.
And about everything being looked into, if the tapes are pulled, guess what? Those goddamn defense attny's who request MOST of the tapes, and MOST of the subpeonas want us there in court to pick apart every single thing that was entered into that event, or said on the radio. WE are held accountable also. Just wanted to mention that.
And my comments on officers asking for callbacks, most of them do them, well, at least for the priority jobs. But there's no way in hell I'm going to do a callback for a low priority job that is hours old (most times because the district is in a Backlog).
At 22 September, 2007 01:46 ,
Anonymous said...
all valid points... i have only one request... if nothing else can you PLEASE turn up the volume on your mics, we CANNOT hear you on zone 9...thanks
At 22 September, 2007 01:49 ,
Anonymous said...
the worst thing this city ever did was make dispatchers civilians...
At 22 September, 2007 12:47 ,
Anonymous said...
Why I cant get some sweet Tabby zone6 boobs??? I hear they are real and spectacular!
At 22 September, 2007 13:34 ,
Anonymous said...
How about the famed and often seen and really large Zone 3 SC boobs!! I can't wait till the next 014 watch party!!
At 22 September, 2007 14:17 ,
Anonymous said...
The worst thing the city ever did was to give the CPD one bit of say into how anything is run at the OEMC after the CPD and sworn idiots ran the second and third floors at 1121 into the ground.
About 2% of sworn officers in the city make even the first attempt at doing their jobs, and the rest of you whine more than welfare moms about everything.
At 22 September, 2007 19:06 ,
Anonymous said...
The worst thing the city ever did was to give the CPD one bit of say into how anything is run at the OEMC after the CPD and sworn idiots ran the second and third floors at 1121 into the ground.
About 2% of sworn officers in the city make even the first attempt at doing their jobs, and the rest of you whine more than welfare moms about everything.
2:17 PM
Wow! 2%, huh? Where do you get your stats? I'd love to get my info from your sources.
There are lazy guys on CPD just as there is at OEMC. If you guys play a support role to POLICE functions, than CPD should have any say-so they please. LIke someone said earlier, worse thing this city did was hand over dispatching to civilians who never worked a beat car to fully understand why a copper says something, what is really going on in a footchase, easy ways to spot someone dogging jobs, smart questions to ask during a footchase, not refer to someone who was shot by police a "victim" and so on. Maybe the police would not whine so much if the dispatching was done from old timers, who been there, done that, and not just some civilian who is on a power-trip with police officers.
At 23 September, 2007 09:56 ,
Anonymous said...
>>If you guys play a support role to POLICE functions, than CPD should have any say-so they please.<<
This is just part of the whining. You guys play a support function to the fire department, to the city, to the citizens, to the secretary of state, to everyboy.
But then you idiots constantly whine about how only the police should have a say in what the police do. But look around. There are about 200 police officers in any given week who actually want to go out and put in 40 hours on a post actually policing.
Like I said, 2%. The rest of you are a bunch of crybabies who feel sorry for yourselves but go home and expect to be called heroes.
At 23 September, 2007 12:40 ,
Anonymous said...
Yeah, just what police officers in Chicago need, another place to hide from being the police.
Do any of you actually want to be, you know, like, the police?
If you want to be a dispatcher, take the test. Your retirees are welcome to take the test too, I'm sure. Have any?
And if you want to see what the influence of your department has done, look at the daily back logs, the Durkin Park incidents, the allocations of manpower, the thousands hiding, the (lack of) supervision, you name it. Since O.W. Wilson, the CPD has never solved one problem without cribbing the answers from another department like New York.
And communications was just another place for police officers to hide from crime. If you knew what you were talking about, you would know how many young women and how many political hacks were up there at 1121. There were no more than 20% who were "old timers", and a lot of them were more useless than teats on a bull.
But if you want to try it, take the test. I'm sure the OEMC would benefit greatly from your "knowledge".
At 23 September, 2007 14:46 ,
Anonymous said...
To poster 12:40 PM.....You are right on target! Just look at the so few sworn that are still here! So glad I rarely get partnered up on zones w/them!
At 23 September, 2007 15:03 ,
Anonymous said...
Hey, you boob babes......aren't you gonna take a jab back at them?
Tell us all...please......who has the teeniest & largest stick?
(Must have district, watch & initials ........must not discriminate...when you point the boob (oops) I meant, finger at them!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
At 28 September, 2007 16:50 ,
Anonymous said...
The mere fact that a 'citizen' notices a car parked in the same spot for 3 days makes it suspicious. Most civilians don't notice shit.
At 28 September, 2007 16:59 ,
Anonymous said...
I love to call 911, tell the call taker that I am an off duty PO. Waste my time to give a detailed description of the crime in progress, the offender and the direction of flight only to check the cad later and find out about 1 tenth of what I said went on the ticket.
At 28 September, 2007 17:00 ,
Anonymous said...
These blogs are like the bathroom walls used to be! Now us chicks don't have to sneak into the men's room on midnights to read it!
At 03 November, 2007 13:38 ,
Anonymous said...
To 11:41pm 003 Sgt
A squad should be sent to assist Fire if the calltaker merits that a crime occurred.
To all of the calltakers: Please pay attention to the callers and NOTATE ALL the information given by the caller on the ticket.
To you dispatchers: Please read the ticket BEFORE and give out ALL of the information on it. When 10-1 calls come out everyone flies to help. When asked where the calls are coming from she replied that the calls came from a DISCONNECTED cell phone.
Signed,
A former Dispatcher, now a PO
At 14 November, 2007 11:54 ,
Anonymous said...
To former dispatcher now a PO
Perhaps the dispatcher said DISCONNECTED cell phone, meaning that it is one of the many many cellphones out there that can only dial one outgoing number...that being 9-1-1. So they might have used that term in order to refrain from tying up the air with a long explanation.
I know most of these comments on this thread are coming across really snotty, but I hope you know that the vast majority of people that work up at OEMC, dispatchers and calltakers are on your side.
Stay safe!
At 26 November, 2007 00:43 ,
Anonymous said...
Why is it hard for me to get a job with chicago dispatch? I have over a year experience, but yet I am not consider eligible. Why not I live in the city?
At 15 December, 2007 17:02 ,
Anonymous said...
149 am
Most civilians do a damn good job. When I work with PO's on the zone you should hear the complaints. I make sure to let everyone know its one of your own on the radio.
At 15 December, 2007 17:02 ,
Anonymous said...
149 am
Most civilians do a damn good job. When I work with PO's on the zone you should hear the complaints. I make sure to let everyone know its one of your own on the radio.
At 16 January, 2008 12:50 ,
Anonymous said...
I do miss the old OEC..Left there about 8 years ago and not much has changed except for a few of the players..Management is still up to the same and the battle between PCOI and PCOII is still on..OJT is still a soft spot with the dispatchers as well..I now work for a police department that mimicks everything your dept does except pay well..Maybe I'll come back..All the former commanders and higher ups in CPD have come to my department trying to make it LIL OEC or should I say OEMC but think they will not have the same problems as you. They are forgetting the one common denominator who has lived in both worlds..ME!! I think this blog is great and keep up the good fight!
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