English on Montreal Emergency Services Radios... NO
Kirk: Do the Mtl police (They used to be called SCUM back when I lived there) still refer to themselves in french and english as when they call out their unit #'s ? IE: 'Dix dix-sept' 'ten-seventeen.'
I used to hear some candid calls en anglais especially in the west end and downtown quartiers.
I recently listened to a feed from the island and the EDACS island wide system had Urgences Sante and local municpality chatter. It sounds like there was some english stuff.
I dont remember any U.S. chatter ever in english when I lived there many years ago but west end areas were and are english majority.
Do some of the island municipalities like Westmount and CSL conduct their fire calls and works calls in english anymore?
LOL an ex-Montrealer i see EJB.....
the Police were called the Montreal Urban Community Police Dept (MUCPD) or in french Service de Police Communaute Urbaine de Montreal (SPCUM) from 1974 until 2002 when the urban community was disolved and they became the Service de Police de la Ville de Montreal (SPVM) Montreal Police Dept.
as for radio comms, the odd dispatcher sometimes will use English & french when calling a car ie: "Studio appell le cinq trois .. five three" but thats as far as it goes.. you sometimes hear the odd west end or downtown units speaking english between themselves but only on the NON dispatch channels
Urgences Sante.. there is NO english spoken on the air what so ever, i've been told it's officially forbidden as Urgences Sante is a QC Provincial Org.
the only agency on the Urgences Sante Edaccs system that speaks english on their own talk group are the Cote St. Luc 1st responders.. but when their dispatcher talks with Urgences Sante on the main talk group they must speak french.
as for west island suburban fire depts, they DON'T exsist any more, Jan1 2002 every paid suburban fire Dept on the island was merged into the Montreal Fire Dept. (SIM) and all the volunteer depts were eliminated and replaced with full time Montreal firefighter and apperatus. and the Montreal Fire Dept does NOT permit english on the radios at all anymore..
the joys of being an Anglophone in Quebec LOL