911:: Officers talking back/being rude

[Guest guest]

At our department we have officers who out and out

hate dispatch. They will tell this to our faces. We've

had all out battles on the air with certain officers.

I personally let them get all huffy and just ignore it

(this is easy for me since my husband is a deputy).

Many of my co-workers can't look the other way though.

We had one dispatcher taken off the radio for a while

b/c he smarted off to the sheriff.

Shauna said " Best way to think of it is like a family "

This is so true though, off duty there isn't anything

most of our officers wouldn't do for us. To them we

are two different people, dispatcher and friend. In

our department you just can't have them at the same

time.

OP Brinkley

Zerk said:

" I just read a post from someone about how an officer

" refused " to go on a call

he/she dispatched until the Sargent made him. I was

wondering if any of you

have any stories about officers talking back to you on

the air, being rude, or

plainly refusing to respond to a dispatch? A

description of the events would

be interesting. I am not in the comm. field so I

can't imagine how officers

could be so rude with the people that get THEM help

when they're the ones

being assaulted. "

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