Unit Numbering Scheme for Sac County and Sac City

[mkewman]

does anyone have a chart or listing for the unit numbering/naming scheme for sac county and sac city?

 

[servo_fan]

For what agency? Fire, PD, Sheriff?

Scancal.org has the listing of fire units and their location, although I'm not sure how recent pr accurate the list is.

Sac City Fire - http://www.scancal.org/sac/saccity.html
Sac Metro - http://www.scancal.org/sac/sacmetro.html (doesn't include Folsom or Galt)
Elk Grove - http://www.scancal.org/sac/grove.html (although part of Sac Metro, it's listed on its own page)

 

[RolnCode3]

does anyone have a chart or listing for the unit numbering/naming scheme for sac county and sac city?

Wow...talk about a loaded question. I can answer some of this, but it's a long answer. I know I posted a little when someone asked about Citrus Heights.

Also, Sac City PD recently made a change to their unit numbering, but I'm pretty sure I know what they did...pretty simple, although I think it wasn't the greatest change...

 

[RolnCode3]

Don't have a list, sorry. We have the District/Zone maps at work, but I don't have them here...dunno if they should be posted anyways...

Sheriff is numbered like this:

District, Zone, Shift, unit #, 2 man unit (if 1 man unit there's no number)
SO, 11Ed12 would be:

District 1, Zone 1, Graveyard Watch, unit 1, 2 man unit (well, I think that's where that last digit comes from...Anthony would be able to verify/correct that portion)

District 1 = Northwest
District 2 = Northeast
District 3 = Citrus Heights
District 4 = North Central
District 5 = Rancho Cordova PD and unincorporated Southeast
District 6 = Central
District 7 = Elk Grove PD
District 8 = South

Watches:
Can't remember the lettering scheme...I can only remember 1/2 of the week
Adam = Day Shift
Charles = Swing
Ed = Grave

Specialized units:
STAR = Sheriff Tactical Airborne Response (or Resource depending on who you talk to)
Union 800 = SED (Special Enforcement Detail/SWAT)
Nora units = ???
210 = PIO R.L. Davis
SHARP = Sheriff's Amateur Radio Program (volunteer radio operators...usually special events and Code5s)
Marine = obviously a boat
Adam = Airport units (on SD 6)
Security = I think the Sheriff Security officers that work at the County buildings
SACCAT = Auto Theft Task Force
Silver = ???
Gang = Duh
Shadow = ???
Rio = RCCC units
Jail = Main Jail unit
Special Ops = Part of the specialized assignments units
Motor = Newly formed POP unit that targets high crime areas...not a traffic unit

 

[Tweekerbob]

Bill, are you serious; they actually use hams for Code 5s??? Doughnut shop stake-outs are probably the best use for us.

"CQ CQ CQ We have some really bad persons breaking into *****'s donut shop! QSL???"

All in jest,

Ryan (the ham formerly known as AB6OI)

 

[RolnCode3]

Bill, are you serious; they actually use hams for Code 5s??? Doughnut shop stake-outs are probably the best use for us.

"CQ CQ CQ We have some really bad persons breaking into *****'s donut shop! QSL???"

All in jest,

Ryan (the ham formerly known as AB6OI)

Usually stuff like at Sunrise Mall during the holiday season. Also along Bridge St. during the rafting season. Both get hit bigtime with car burglaries and stolen vehicles. But, yeah, they actually have this program. There is at least one officer assigned to it that coordinates it.

 

[Mick]

LAPD and Burbank PD use hams for similar ops also.

Usually stuff like at Sunrise Mall during the holiday season. Also along Bridge St. during the rafting season. Both get hit bigtime with car burglaries and stolen vehicles. But, yeah, they actually have this program. There is at least one officer assigned to it that coordinates it.

 

[selgaran]

Specialized units:

Nora units = ???

Silver = ???

Nora seems to pretty universally be narcotics units of some sort or other. Which probably means they aren't here...

Silver is almost certainly CA State Probabtion officers. I'd been hearing Silver units on various Yolo County freqs on and off for a while, and finally figured it out who they were when there was an alarm sounding call at the state probation office in Woodland.

 

[Sac916]

Sacramento Sheriff Stuff

District
Zone
Shift
Unit #
2 man unit designator ( if applicable )

Example 11E12

District 1
Zone 1
Ed Watch - Graveyard Shift
Unit 1
2 man unit

Example 42C2

District 4
Zone 2
Charles Watch - Swing Shift
Unit 2
( no 4th digit equates a one man unit, unless they have a trainee in the car )

Example 34X3

District 3 Citrus Hghts PD
Zone 4
X-ray = unmarked
Unit 3


District 1 = Northwest Division
North Highlands/Rio Linda/Antelope/Elverta


District 2 = Northeast Division
Carmichael
Fair Oaks
Orangevale
Foothill Farms
Arden-Fair Oaks Blvd area
East of Mission Ave

District 3 = Citrus Heights
http://www.citrusheightspd.com/
14.6 sq miles or something like that
( will severe ties with Sac Sheriff July 1 )

District 4 = North Central Division
Arden AVe Corridor
Watt Ave - north of river south of I-80
Fulton Ave corridor
West of Mission Ave

District 5 = East Division
( shared Command with Rancho Cordova PD)
http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/contract_services/rockingham_station/index.cfm
Zone 1,2,3 = East Division ( unincorperated )
Murietta to Amador County border


Zone 4,5,6 = RCPD ( shared Command with Rancho Cordova )
City of Rancho Corodova
http://www.ranchocordovapd.com/


District 6 = Central Division
That little sliver of map page 317 Thomas Bros Mapbook
South to City of Elk Grove


District 7 = Elk Grove PD
http://www.elkgrovepd.org/
( Will severe ties with Sac Sheriff at end of year )



District 8 = South Bureau ( not Division )
Under authority of Central Division
Delta/Pretty much everything south of Elk Grove


*** Until Citrus Heights and Elk Grove PD officially cut their ties with
the Sheriff's Dept, all " Officers " are actually Sheriff Deputies.



Adam Watch = Day shift
Charles Watch = Swing shift
Ed Watch = Graveyard shift



Specialized units:

STAR = Sheriff Tactical Airborne Response (or Resource depending on who you talk to)

800 series = SED (Special Enforcement Detail/SWAT)

Nora units = Narc ( work closely with SED )

210 = Media Officer superstar R.L. Davis ( very nice guy )

SHARP = Sheriff's Amateur Radio Program
volunteers - mostly HAM operators
Do stake outs at large parking lots (malls theatres) Catch car burglars

Marine = Boats & jetski

RT = Regional Transit Police ( staffed by Sac Sheriff & Sac PD )

Adam = Airport units (on SD 6)

Security = Sheriff Security officers that work various County buildings ( non-sworn )

SACCAT = CHP Auto Theft Task Force
http://www.saccats.org/


Silver = Parole

Gang = Duh

Shadow = Hi-Tech, Fraud, Forgery, Financial crimes

Rio = Rio Consumnes Correctional Center on Bruceville Rd

Jail = Main Jail unit at 651 I street

Special Ops = Part of the specialized assignments units

POP - Problem Oriented Policing

Motor = Newly formed POP unit that targets high crime areas...not a traffic unit

Union = Centralilzed Detective ( countywide detectives - various bureaus )

Sam = Sgt

Lincoln = Lieutenant

TS 1 North County Paddy Wagon
TS 2 South County Paddy Wagon

IDA = CSI units ( sworn officers )

K9 = Canine



You'll hear some wacky Callsigns like Friday 4 at TGI Friday's Rest
There are several dozen Off-Duty job sites throughout the County.
Paid by private parties, associations and business, they hire Deputies to provide Security.
They pay extra for the use of a Patrol car. These Off-Duty jobs are not paid by taxpayers.

There are dozens of other callsigns for very specialized units, but far too many to go into detail.
Some of them I won't go into and you'll just have to figure out.

I don't think there are any public patrol maps out there, but the service centers are a good guide.
Having a Thomas Brothers Mapbook is essential. The Sheriff's Dept references them for every call.
Get the zipcode edition, a lot of the adjacent district borders are bound by zipcodes.

Just a guess, but some of the service centers may have generic maps. Perhaps pass them out at
community meetings or something. I dunno.



Tons of info at

http://www.sacsheriff.com/

http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/index.cfm

http://www.sacsheriff.com/info/servicecenters.cfm

 

[servo_fan]

Not to forget our Sac PD friends, here's a map that shows their districts. The Sac PD website also has a lot of good information, including a Ride Along Application, (good luck with that one!).

As for their unit names and numbers, you can use the map to decode the district, but I'm not exactly sure where their naming comes from, (Baker, Bravo, Delta, Frank, Metro, Robert, Zebra, etc., they seem to have a lot of them). And of course the Sergeant (Sam) and Lieutenant (Lincoln) units, which I believe are the same in the Sheriff's dept.

Antfreq mentioned that at the SSD, motor units are not for traffic, (I believe those would be like "7 Mary XX"), but as I'm sure you've heard, at SPD, all their motor units seem to do are vehicle stops, (what the heck is "clear tom nora" anyways). I have heard some of the new Sac PD unit numbers, but the ones I've heard seem to be dedicated to vehicle accidents, stops, etc., (these guys seem to have names like 1 Frank 22).

 

[RolnCode3]

Antfreq mentioned that at the SSD, motor units are not for traffic, (I believe those would be like "7 Mary XX"), but as I'm sure you've heard, at SPD, all their motor units seem to do are vehicle stops, (what the heck is "clear tom nora" anyways). I have heard some of the new Sac PD unit numbers, but the ones I've heard seem to be dedicated to vehicle accidents, stops, etc., (these guys seem to have names like 1 Frank 22).

I was the first one that said that, and it's true. I'm not talking about the "Mary" units (which I forgot to list)...those are the traffic moto cops for the different PDs.

You will hear "Motor 5", "Motor Sam", etc...those are the POP unit motors that are not a traffic function...although they do a lot of vehicle stops, they're looking for gang members, weapons, drugs, etc...not to write tickets or take TC reports. There was a press release on the Sheriff website about a month ago talking about the unit.

 

[RolnCode3]

I think all of their units have the new designation (with the # out front)...I'm about 95% certain that's a 1 or 2 man unit designator. So, 1William56 would be a 1 man William unit in Sector 5, 6th unit (I believe...although I do not know how the name portion works at all...I've been told some are 2 man unit designators...shift designations, and various other designations/functions).

"Delta" units are (or were, depending on how sweeping the unit ID changes are) POP units (which I learned after being on a call with them).

Not to forget our Sac PD friends, here's a map that shows their districts. The Sac PD website also has a lot of good information, including a Ride Along Application, (good luck with that one!).

As for their unit names and numbers, you can use the map to decode the district, but I'm not exactly sure where their naming comes from, (Baker, Bravo, Delta, Frank, Metro, Robert, Zebra, etc., they seem to have a lot of them). And of course the Sergeant (Sam) and Lieutenant (Lincoln) units, which I believe are the same in the Sheriff's dept.

Antfreq mentioned that at the SSD, motor units are not for traffic, (I believe those would be like "7 Mary XX"), but as I'm sure you've heard, at SPD, all their motor units seem to do are vehicle stops, (what the heck is "clear tom nora" anyways). I have heard some of the new Sac PD unit numbers, but the ones I've heard seem to be dedicated to vehicle accidents, stops, etc., (these guys seem to have names like 1 Frank 22).

 

[servo_fan]

I think all of their units have the new designation

Maybe they are still in the process of changing them, because while listening to SPD this morning, it seems like I'm hearing a combination of the new and old designators.

SPD also has Bike units that you hear from time to time.

Does anybody know what the Ivy units are?

 

[Sac916]

SPD
IV = Investigations


SSD
Motor = Specializd units and Motorcycles ( unincorperated portions )
Mary = Motorcycles in they cities ( RCPD, EGPD, CHPD )
Tom = Commercial vehicle traffic enforcement

 

[RolnCode3]

SPD's Paul3 is the drunk wagon that roams downtown

trying to remember any others

Always wondered about the Tom units w/ SSD...now I know. Thanks!

 

[RolnCode3]

zone maps

Here's Rancho Cordova PD's zone map:
http://www.ranchocordovapd.com/documents/rc_area_map.pdf

Here's Citrus Heights PD's:
http://www.citrusheights.net/home/index.asp?page=972

There's also a few press releases talking about purchasing Motorola radios, and joining SRRCS, but neither is earth shattering news.

 

[K91]

more info

Sacramento Sheriff Stuff

District
Zone
Shift
Unit #
2 man unit designator ( if applicable )



Tons of info at

http://www.sacsheriff.com/

http://www.sacsheriff.com/organization/index.cfm

http://www.sacsheriff.com/info/servicecenters.cfm

more info at www.ssdk9.com

 

[swat]

nora is yolo county narcotics tasks force also known as Y.O.N.E.T and i also had a question about the victor units on sac pd channels what re they ???

 

[sac-emt]

With regards to the ScanCal website for the Sacramento area fire departments or fire districts, I find it to be pretty accurate. I am employed in the fire service here in Sacramento and have gotten to know the breakdown of the public safety agencies.

As for Elk Grove Fire, they are a part of the Elk Grove Community Services District and Folsom and Galt are city fire departments.

I am a new member, scanning since the mid-70's in So Cal. and I find this site to be a valuable resource - the best I have been able to find and have gleaned some great information from these threads.

 

[servo_fan]

I am employed in the fire service here in Sacramento

Welcome aboard, it'll be nice to have another "insider" participating. You're right, this is a great site and there are a lot of people from the Sacramento area here.

As for Elk Grove Fire, they are a part of the Elk Grove Community Services District

I'm not sure what the actual or functional difference is between a CSD and a City Fire Department. I wonder if when EG breaks from the Sac Sheriff's dept if they will form a true City Fire Dept like Galt and Folsom?