"Supervisor needed for the three questions"????
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Radio_Lady
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Whenever someone is taken into custody, before they're booked the normal procedure requires that the person be taken to the station and inspected and interviewed by the division Watch Commander, primarily to ascertain if their mental or physical condition requires mental evaluation or medical treatment. This is in addition to the Watch Commander's reviewing the arrest itself to determine if it is legal, appropriate, and properly documented.
At the minimum, before the booking is approved, the arrestee is to be asked (a) "do you understand why you've been arrested?" (b) "are you sick, ill, or injured?" and (c) "do you have any questions or concerns?" Depending on the answers they may be booked or taken for appropriate treatment first.
If a field unit requests a supervisor to respond somewhere for the three questions, it is usually because the arrestee is obviously in need of medical attention, and it's not practical or safe to delay it by taking them to the station first. Except in unusual circumstances, the supervisor asking the questions must be someone who wasn't involved in the arrest.
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You're welcome. Unless there is some new procedure in place, it's something you'll seldom if ever hear over the air again. I think I heard the request once, on some frequency I wasn't working. When assigned to a patrol division station it was common to hear it in the WC's office, otherwise I wouldn't have had any idea what they were talking about.
Oh. Nice. Maybe you can answer another question for me what unit is. 5k unit? I came across a 5k90G unit too what unit is that? And now I've heard like 3k and units like that and there not in the lapd manual. I really am interested in special units. And 70D is supposedly a gang and narco div unit? Can u please tell me any info.
RadioDaze
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I'll guess before Radio_Lady sets us straight. IIRC, 5 King (at least in the old days) was a detective designation. 3 king was bunco/forgery.
Radio_Lady
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Yes, "K" units have always been citywide, as opposed to divisional, detective units. Correct on 3K being Bunco-Forgery; 5K--G was the citywide gang detail, with the "90" being their office callsign, just like with patrol and other divisions.
70D sounds more like a unit suffix than a prefix, and the only one that immediately comes to mind is R70D, which would be a sergeant in Metro Division's "D" platoon, but there's no reason there couldn't be 70D's elsewhere. Suffixes could mean just about anything, with the exception of units ending in a zero who are almost always supervisors, the exception being -80s and -90s.
With frequent reorganizations of greater and lesser degrees, specific details get moved around from time to time, and their names get changed somewhat, but if there's still a callsign as complex as 5K90G I would be very surprised if it was anything but the current version of the citywide gang detail. I don't even try to keep track anymore. Best thing I can suggest is just listening to what they're talking about and slowly connecting the dots.
The online Department Manual is reliable for overall policies and procedures, but isn't particularly current page-by-page from what others have said. It's but one of many manuals the department maintains, dozens of them.
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I think you're right that SIS used to be 5K units. They've been moved into Robbery Homicide Division within the last few years, so most likely have switched to 4K numbers. They are real experts at surveillance, and are available to assist any division within the department that needs their skills to work on the most serious crimes that the investigating division doesn't have the personnel or expertise for.
Robbery-Homicide Division - official website of THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT
Burglary Suspect Caught in the Act NR11081kr - official website of THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT
Officer-Involved Shooting Occurs When Suspect Points a Gun at Detectives NR10332SF - official website of THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT
Robbery Spree Ends with Suspects in Custody NR09391kr - official website of THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT
i just remembered something what is the unit id for the LAPD Chevrolet Tahoe's there like a mobile CP i believe. Do some officers get there radio issued to take home? Because right now a little girls voice keeps coming up and sometimes it background chatter and sometimes she said like hello or something garbled and the rto said unit with a message repeat and a officer said disregard.
Radio_Lady
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If your turn your question inside-out, yes, SMART team units have 1King-- callsigns. I think they are in the 1K120s or 1K130s series.
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Mobile CP vehicles are identified simply as "Mobile 1, Mobile 2, etc" Enroute to an incident they may use that number, or the personnel driving them could use their own callsign, usually either an Emergency Operations (6D) or conceivably a RACR (29H) officer or even someone from the division of occurrence if they're authorized to drive it. As an in-service resource during an incident most of them willl ID as "CP" plus the division number, but a CP may be moved from a sergeant's car to a utility vehicle to a semi-trailer or self-contained command post vehicle, http://www.code2high.com/LAPD/lapd_command_1.jpg
LAPD has more than 200 SUVs and vans, so it's impossible to say for sure who a "Tahoe" belongs to without seeing it and then whether it has some identifying information on it.
Yes.
It happens occasionally, but is seldom a problem.
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As I mentioned up a couple posts, I don't even try to keep track of all this stuff anymore. Best thing I can suggest is just listening to who's talking and what they're talking about, and slowly connecting the dots. Some people talk often and should be decipherable in reasonably short order, but most of the non-uniformed units are on the air only sporadically, and many hundreds of officers and civilian employees go for years without getting near a radio.
This is really getting into minutia and esoterica that I'm not current on, and I'm sure there is no single up-to-date source for all of it even within LAPD. It's a large organization, whose structure is dynamic and fluid, and what's accurate this week may be completely changed by next week.
As close as you are likely to get is LAPD's website, especially the "Inside the LAPD" page, the Organization Chart, and the Department Manual, especially Volume 4. Always keep in mind, though, that there is a steady stream of Department Special Orders and Administrative Orders, many of which specifically make immediate changes to sections of the Manual and Organization Chart, but often don't make it to the online site for months or years.
As they say on the Terms and Conditions page, "The Los Angeles Police Department Website (LAPDOnline) is created and designed for the purpose of communicating general information with users of the Internet by electronic means. The Los Angeles Police Department does not guarantee the accuracy, reliability, or confidentiality of any such communications."
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You sure they weren't asking for a rollback tow truck?
Another question sorry for asking so many but it's more interesting when one can know what there saying and plus I wanna be a lapd officer so knowing this would be good. I heard the code ir on the radio. It's probably a dispo code for incident report right? And do u know the dispo code?
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