Speaking of codes vs. plan speech, I was working with a partner last evening and finally had another dispatcher comment on how I'll use 10 codes and signals with police but never with the fire & EMS. I dispatched a car to assist with a signal 82 roll-over, then dropped tones on the fireside and dispatched the same incident as a motor vehicle accident/roll-over w/ injuries.
I kind of see a small need for codes with law enforcement. Such as when a dispatcher finds a warrant on a suspect a cop has stopped or some other sensitive information, at Skiatook and when I as at Creek Co he/she asks the officer "10-12?" or "vistors present?" and the officer knows we have some sensitive information that the suspect may not like hearing. Another one we use regularly is 10-74. instead of just blurting out a NIMS compliant "You might keep an eye out for drugs, suspect has a history of posession" a discreet 10-74 slipped onto the end of a DL return does wonders and has assisted in several arrests before.I am a firm supported for plain speech in the Fire Service, though. It's hard enough to understand some of us knucklehead as it is without 10 codes
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who knows, maybe I brought another person over to the darkside of NMIS complaint radio traffic last night. :wink:
I'd be intrested to find out if that was on his actual state traffic record; usually unless someone has continuous record of entrys, they will wipe your slate after 2 years consecutively with no tickets. The farthest I've ever seen one go back was 1977, and that guy had a 3 page long history when I printed it.
