Roseville PD dispo codes?

[NWtoSFO]

Anyone here know what RVPD's dispo codes are? The officers will radio in with their status, 10-8, followed by a dispo code for the previous call. 10-8 is usually followed with "U-S", which I've heard is unsafe speed. I've also heard "Mary-Victor", "Charles-Tom", "William-Robert" and 1 or 2 others. Anyone know what those mean?

Matthew

 

[kma371]

Mary Victor - Moving Violation?

just a guess

 

[NWtoSFO]

Had a chance to ask an officer and find out some of the codes. "Mary-Victor" is moving violation; "U-S" is unsafe speed; "Charles-Tom" is cleared by contact; "William-Robert" is warning issued; "Sam-Boy" is seat belt;

 

[RolnCode3]

Did he explain why they bother with details that small? Seems burdensome (and a waste of radio time).

Sac PD does the same thing (different clearance codes, though), and it might not be too bad until you have a motor team and some bike units all on the same channel making stops. Get enough units broadcasting some of the extraneous stuff (that could just be written on the citation/FI card) and it ties up the channel pretty quick. It's a management issue, nothing against the field officers.

 

[kma371]

Stats.

I remember Pleasanton(?) used to have dispo codes that included the age, race, sex and cite or no cite. Must have been part of the "racial profiling" stats. I dont think they do it anymore.

2T52, 2, B, M, N

2 - 20's
B - Race
M - Male
N - No cite

 

[inigo88]

Marin County Sheriff uses a four number dispo code when units go 10-98 from a call. I've only been able to figure out a few based on context, although fortunately a lot of the time they'll say both the code and the disposition in plain english. I'm not sure why, could it be a CAD incident-filing thing?

For example:

"10-98, 9100, AOA Coast Guard."
Therefore 9100 = Assisted Outside Agency

Another local PD uses two number dispo codes with NO related plain text context, making them much more difficult to figure out. For instance, "10-98, dispo 41." Without figuring out the codes, this by itself is meaningless. So anyway, at least with Roseville the two letter codes are real abbreviations for something. I would definitely take "Mary Victor" over "41."

 

[avtarsingh]

roseville does some weird stuff

i think its a tradition from when roseville was a teeny town

they also use julian dates (which is usually used by fed agencies) and give out backwards birthdates

i think sac ssd has the easiest to listen to for new and casual listeners

when the voice is even used.. and not mdt driven

 

[NWtoSFO]

As a casual listener, I think mdt's should be outlawed !

 

[gmclam]

As a casual listener, I think mdt's should be outlawed !

I remember back before Sacramento county got MDTs/MCTs and my scanner would not leave their frequency. All we are misiing is the routine calls that are mostly boring anyway.

Speaking of boring, that's how I relate to most dispo codes. I guess I am just listening to too much stuff to concentrate on a specific call in Roseville. That is unless the call is major in which case you don't have to guess at what the disposition is.

 

[kma371]

roseville does some weird stuff

i think its a tradition from when roseville was a teeny town

they also use julian dates (which is usually used by fed agencies) and give out backwards birthdates

i think sac ssd has the easiest to listen to for new and casual listeners

when the voice is even used.. and not mdt driven

the birthdays could be a CAD issue, I think some require it a certain way and its just easier to read it whatever way CAD accepts it rather than make the dispatcher turn it around

 

[Duster]

roseville does some weird stuff

i think its a tradition from when roseville was a teeny town

they also use julian dates (which is usually used by fed agencies) and give out backwards birthdates

i think sac ssd has the easiest to listen to for new and casual listeners

when the voice is even used.. and not mdt driven

Most of what Roseville does is process-driven...

- Dispo codes are specifically for statistics, designed to track citations for certain "hazardous violations" or other important-to-know violations, which are used to justify funding for certain programs or special units (lots of grants get written at Roseville PD...that's part of the reason they have so many toys and special assignments.

- Julian dates are required for the way they do their records keeping and report/data filing. It makes perfect sense to those who use it, even if knowing the julian was a pain in the a** for those of us who had to use it regularly.

- The backwards birthdays are specifically a CAD issue. Their CAD system requires the date be entered that way, and when that version of CAD was instituted (I was there when it happened), it was deemed easier to train the officers to do the dates that way than to require the dispatchers to transpose every date given to them. The officers also have to enter the dates that way in the MDC's, so it really doesn't take long to get used to it.