Understanding police in burlington co

[policefreak]

When monitoring some of the PD's in Burlington county, in particular Evesham and Cinnaminson, I notice that when responding to a call an officer will say "Responding Priority 2." Anyone know what this means? Also, (and I notice this most on the P-8 channel) the dispatcher will dispatchers in "Zone 5" or "Zone 2" for an incident. What are these zones (North, South, East)? Or are they divised differently for each municipality?

 

[KC2SVY]

I don't know if this goes for burlington county but in atlantic county Code 1 is slow your response, code 2 is normal response, code 3 is expidite. So if someone is responding code 1 it means they're taking their time, driving normal.

 

[jeff]

There are no county wide procedures for PD's on how they are handling calls, each individual PD can set up their own, Evesham uses Priority 1 as the highlest level (lights & siren) and goes down from there. Some of the PD's on NC P-3 use alpha, bravo, etc as response codes. As for zones, some have them, some don't. They designate a geographical area, I don't know what Evesham's are. Medford has 2 or 3 zones depending on the number of officers on duty.

 

[xpawel15x]

In my town, there will usually be one car patrolling one "zone". So they're not all in the same spot so they could cover calls better.