Re: 911:: I AM ON VACATION WOOOHOOOO

[Guest guest]

> so i am going to ask (since i was on the beeper

subj) How many of you either carry dept issued pagers?

Or are any of you required to carry one @ your own

expense?

john- we don't have dept issued pagers for ALL of

disp/patrol. the dept issues alpha pagers for the

entire SWAT team, ADMIN response team for major

incidents, ALL detectives, ALL narcotics squad and me.

How'd I get so lucky? let's see- I'm in charge of the

reverse 911 call out computer, I am the only major

incident/hazmat dispatcher, am the 'unofficial' SWAT

team dispatcher (ie they don't like the one assigned

to the team, so they will call be out as 'inc'

dispatcher, and put be on swat also!-multi tasking R

I!), I am 1 of 2 people that have a clue how

CAD/Record computer system is SUPPOSED to work, and

i'm the 'unofficial' disp supervisor (ie not title, no

pay, but all the 'responsibility' !!!!

pretty much when they issue you a pager, you have to

respond. in the off chance that you are not FIT (stop

laughing now) for duty, then you still call in and

advice of that (hey, we live in the south, in law

enforcement, go figure what the alcoholic drinking

quotia is for off-duty days!!!).

so far it's worked out pretty well-3 yrs and

counting-though we have a problem with call out re the

cAD system- the guy in charge and i both have LIVES

(go figure!), so it's a headache and a half when we go

on vacation- think cell phones- can reach us all over

the country.............the clink you just heard was

the ball and chain........

hope this helps some-shauna, bpd, la

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[Guest guest]

Every employee of FD has a pager issued. They are to be carried on duty, as CAD

will page them out on a call. They MAY be carried off duty and used for

personal

calls if you desire, but are not supposed to be used for an outside business.

I

leave mine on my visor, that way when I get ready to come to work, I can see how

many runs occurred while I was off, so I know how much work I have to do when I

get in.

Before retiring at a PD, the chief said he wanted to have the staff officers

carry a pager. The POA attorney said only if the dept/city negotiated an

overtime wage for carrying it. The chief said he would order all staff to carry

them 24/7. The attorney said that they wouldn't work very well after being in a

bathtub. After some positions were paid ot for carrying the pagers, the

officers

would just carry a dead battery if they didn't want to answer a callout.

Rich

1010WC

luvva001@... wrote:

> How many of you either carry dept issued pagers? Or are any of you required

to

> carry one @ your own expense? If anyone is required to carry one what does

your

> dept use it for? what are the requirements if you get paged out in the middle

> of the night???

>

> M. Goldman

> Pelham Police Dept.

[Guest guest]

Our department issued us all pagers about 2 years ago. The policy as put out in

memo

is that any department page is to be responded to within 15 minutes. In actual

fact,

some respond some don't. Our pager system is notorious for missing pages and for

sending out garbled unreadable messages. I think, as everyone is aware of this,

sometimes it is convienent to blame a missed call on the pager system. So far, I

don't know of anyone being punished or written up for missing a page out.

Freida

La Vergne, TN

luvva001@... wrote:

How many of you either carry dept issued pagers? Or are any of you required to

carry

one @ your own expense? If anyone is required to carry one what does your dept

use it

for? what are the requirements if you get paged out in the middle of the

night???

M. Goldman

Pelham Police Dept.