WSP clear codes

[gregma]

Question on the WSP clear codes I've been hearing. Anyone know their meaning? For example, I'll hear:

762 clear "bravo"
772 clear "alpha"

I believe I've also heard "charlie".

Thanks!
Greg

 

[commstar]

A-Notice of infraction
B-Arrest, custody or criminal citation and release
C-Warning

 

[gregma]

Awesome, thank you for the info!

 

[AuntBee09]

Question on the WSP clear codes I've been hearing. Anyone know their meaning? For example, I'll hear:

762 clear "bravo"
772 clear "alpha"

I believe I've also heard "charlie".

Thanks!
Greg

are these used in western washington? cause in seattle, i hear them say "boy" instead of "bravo" and "adam" instead of "alpha". but i don't listen to them that much; i could be missing something. one thing is forsure, the WSP seattle dispatchers seem to talk a lot faster than city police and county dispatchers do

 

[jparks29]

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie....

Adam, Boy, Charles....


Same deal.

 

[tmfok7]

are these used in western washington? cause in seattle, i hear them say "boy" instead of "bravo" and "adam" instead of "alpha". but i don't listen to them that much; i could be missing something. one thing is forsure, the WSP seattle dispatchers seem to talk a lot faster than city police and county dispatchers do

They use the same codes all across the state and they do use what is considered the law enforcement version of the phonetic alphabet of "A-Adam, B-Boy and C-Charles".

 

[gregma]

are these used in western washington? cause in seattle, i hear them say "boy" instead of "bravo" and "adam" instead of "alpha". but i don't listen to them that much; i could be missing something. one thing is forsure, the WSP seattle dispatchers seem to talk a lot faster than city police and county dispatchers do

You're right, I fell back to my Amateur Radio phonetic alphabet which is based on military. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie. That's not what the WSP uses. My apologies.

And you sure are RIGHT about the speed! They seem to be on WAY too much coffee. I heard one officer ask the dispatch if he could repeat something a little slower. Cracked me up

 

[AuntBee09]

You're right, I fell back to my Amateur Radio phonetic alphabet which is based on military. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie. That's not what the WSP uses. My apologies.

And you sure are RIGHT about the speed! They seem to be on WAY too much coffee. I heard one officer ask the dispatch if he could repeat something a little slower. Cracked me up

o, ok. just checking.

LOL (about the speed story). even the troopers talk fast. and it confuses me sometimes because trooper units are usually just numbers (right?) and the WSP dispatchers almost always say the time after every transmission; so like when the dispatcher responds to a unit, instead of me hearing "015 at 13:35," i hear "0151335" (that was just an example i made up and it may not be totally accurate). LOL, i wonder what the difference is with state dispatchers and county/city dispatchers . . .

 

[commstar]

The military phonetics might be an inside joke on a particular squad.

The SWAT medic used to be a Motor cop hence the 'Mary' in his identifier. People thought him to be a bit of a anal rententive kinda guy and like to press his buttons.

Cops being folks who like to mess with this guys head so they would convert his 'Mary' to 'Medic' particularly on midnights when the when things were a bit less formal. This was a squad level joke- so it could be they have a newbie who is ex-military and slipped up once and now they are making him pay.

In some So. California Agencies, it is common practice to use the mil phonetic for a unit identifier and the APCO phonetics for spelling things like names, plates +radio codes.

So they could even have a So. Cal Lateral who they are ribbing. Who really knows.

Cheers- my .02 cents.

 

[jparks29]

I'm used to the 'police' phonetic alphabet....... Except for my callsign, which I use the 'correct' ITU phonetics...

It's funny...

Kilo Bravo three Juliet....

Yet when I go to spell something else.......


Sam Ocean Mary Edward Tom Henry Ida Nora George, Edward Lincoln Sam Edward

lol

 

[tmfok7]

o, ok. just checking.

LOL (about the speed story). even the troopers talk fast. and it confuses me sometimes because trooper units are usually just numbers (right?) and the WSP dispatchers almost always say the time after every transmission; so like when the dispatcher responds to a unit, instead of me hearing "015 at 13:35," i hear "0151335" (that was just an example i made up and it may not be totally accurate). LOL, i wonder what the difference is with state dispatchers and county/city dispatchers . . .

I listen to the WSP all the time when I travel back and forth to Eastern Washington and they are about the same all across the state! Years back in Spokane, there was a trooper there whose number was 620 but he hardly ever used Six twenty or Six Two Zero when he talked on the radio. It was almost always " Six Zero - Spokane". Sometimes it would sound like "Six ta zero". They all have their little quirks for talking on the radio and how they annunciate their unit number. Sometimes the dispatchers pick-up on this and will talk to the trooper the same way he calls them.

I also listen to all the City and County departments I can pick-up across the state and, for the most part, they talk a tad bit slower! Some of them though, you would swear they were trained by the WSP.