SFPD "PAT"

[officer_415]

The description for SFPD A11 has always been "PAT / Muni / Tac / Traffic". Does anyone know what PAT stands for?

PAT - ???
Muni - SFMTA Division
Tac - Tactical Company (SWAT)
Traffic - Traffic Company

 

[Outerdog]

Guessing "Patrol" -- see also Solano County TRS for the same abbreviation (none of which should really be there according to the db admin handbook...).

Probably should clean up all those CAPITAL letters in the Alpha tags, too (TRAINING, MAINTENANCE, etc).

Alpha tags should use a mix of lower and upper case letters (the use of all capital letters should be avoided). (6.4.1)

 

[officer_415]

Guessing "Patrol" -- see also Solano County TRS for the same abbreviation

No, the normal patrol talkgroups are A1-A8. PAT refers to some sort of specialized unit within the SFPD. However it's probably antiquated, or a typo of something else like RAT (Robbery Apprehension Team, a unit in the early 2000s)

 

[Hooligan]

PAT = Panhandler Assistance Team -- Officers escorting panhandlers & holding their signs and cups, helping protect the donated spare change in them, etc.

 

[footage]

I think it's antiquated. It's been around for over 20 years, and I can find no reference to the abbreviation in the SFPD general orders and elsewhere.

 

[rooivalk]

It's "RAT", not PAT. RAT was an operation done with undercover Officers posing as potential robbery victims. They'd get robbed and an arrest team would swoop in and arrest the suspect. For legal reasons, they are no longer performed, and were never on "A-11".

 

[Outerdog]

No, the normal patrol talkgroups are A1-A8.

I realize that. Absent any other reasonable suggestions, it looks like an old stray piece of info. It should be removed from the description entirely. You've already had one guy tell you that there is no reference to it in the sources he reviewed.

 

[officer_415]

Thanks, we'll take care of it.