whats your dispatch called?

[searingxheretic]

Newport News, VA: the officer announces their 4-digit unit number, the dispatcher then repeats the number as an OK to speak. Fire announces their truck number or batallion name, sometimes fire adds "to central" after their truck number.

Scranton, PA: officers and fire call dispatch "Comm Center" short for Lackawanna County Communications Center. Comm Center dispatches for the entire county.

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[ShyFlyer]

NM State Police uses the City where the District HQ is located, i.e. District 3 HQ is in Albuquerque, so dispatch there is referred to as "Albuquerque."

In my home town, City, Sheriff, Fire, and EMS are dispatched by "Regional." City PD Officers uses numbers beginning with 2 (201, 202, etc) and Sheriff uses numbers beginning with 1 (101, 102, etc).

 

[hosehead88]

I am glad this is expanding... A great topic.

Dauphin County: 'County'
Cumberland County: Headquarters
Schuylkill: PD="County" FD="Schuylkill Fire" or "County Fire"
York: "York"

In a department that does mutual aid into York and Dauphin fairly regularly (from Cumberland), it is fun to keep them straight.

 

[Duster]

Good morning from the Left Coast...

CHP and CAL FIRE have dispatch centers scattered around the state; they use the city or community name the center is located in, with the only exceptions I can think of being "Golden Gate" for the Bay area CHP, and "Border" for the San Diego area CHP centers.

Local government agencies, both police and fire, vary from one end of the spectrum to the other. There are various versions of "Dispatch", "Control", "SO", "Fire Dispatch", etc. Many use geographic references; ie. Placer County Fire and SO is "Placer"; Nevada County SO is "Nevada County".

A couple that stand out in my memory is "Main" for some Sacramento area PD's and Sac SO (before they went to trunking; now they just use the officer ID) and "Allessandro" for Riverside County Sheriff back in the day, because their center was located on Allessandro Road in western Riverside County. Haven't heard them in years, so I don't know if they are still using that.

When they were still on analog VHF, San Bernardino SO used the geographic location of their dispatch centers (Barstow, Victorville, Morongo (for the Morongo Basin), except for their Metro area dispatch, which was "Control". When they went 800 trunked in the early 90's, they consolidated to two dispatch centers, and began just using the deputy's callsign...however, you would occasionally "Control" or "Victorville" being used, especially when they wouldn't answer the deputy after several tries.

If I would have to hazard a guess, I imagine a significant number of agencies use some form of geographic or location-based reference.

 

[AF5JQ]

The Bi-State communications center straddles the state line between Texarkana, TX and Texarkana, AR. So if you're in Bowie County, TX you're calling "Texas Central" and if you're in Miller County, AR you'd call "Arkansas Central". But like another couple of people have said, if the unit is calling on a dedicated dispatch channel, they'll just say their unit number and wait for a response.

 

[cann1995]

In Madison County Ohio, the Sheriff's Office is MADISON when marking on the Sheriff's channel "MADISON 75". When marking on the fire channels, we are FIRE CONTROL "FIRE CONTROL MEDIC 261". The Sheriff's Office dispatches all Fire & EMS in Madison County. London Police uses their unit numbers or sometimes HEADQUARTERS. West Jefferson Police uses "RADIO" (prior to going MOTOTRBO they used "957" from their old, old callsign KDD957). Plain City Police is dispatched by Union County which uses either their unit number or "877" from their old VHF callsign KQA877.

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