Comments on: More Technology

By: copper bottom

copper bottom — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:31:33 +0000

samyeager is right…

cid? community officers? PCSO?

let’s face it- response officers are widely thought of (not by me..) as being the ‘rubbing rag’ of the old bill…

how many times have you heard that old chestnut- ’sorry, you are being put into uniform for being a bad boy’?

it’s insulting…

By: SamYeager

SamYeager — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:19:57 +0000

“The big splodge of colour on the map might, just might, give senior officers a better idea of how much resource is sitting in the station as opposed to out on the streets where the public want to see them.”

Regrettably it’s all too likely that only the officers on response will have to use it so the other 90% of police officers won’t appear on the map.

By: Fee

Fee — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:20:46 +0000

The big splodge of colour on the map might, just might, give senior officers a better idea of how much resource is sitting in the station as opposed to out on the streets where the public want to see them. Then they could make better use of the available officers on each shift.

*cough*

Sorry, the new tablets don’t appear to be working. I’ll just go and lie down in a dark room …

By: R/T

R/T — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:42:54 +0000

Dog handler getting a good track. That’s a good one. Or am I too cynical?! Seriously – once people get over the fact that the DPS Super isn’t going to be sitting in the control room 24/7 I think they’ll have no probs. I’ve worked with guys who didn’t like the “new” PRs because they thought that the skipper would be able to get hold of them more easily (read actually find them at all!!!).

By: copper bottom

copper bottom — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:32:32 +0000

sadly… the only real opposition to GPS in airwave terminals was from police themselves -worried that PSD might use it to spy on us…

By: Reactively Proactive

Reactively Proactive — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:16:40 +0000

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. The only problem is you don’t know which it is. A collegue of mine mislaid his radio for a couple of hours. After asking around he came to the conclusion he must have lost it during a previous incident so had control bring it up on the map. It showed his radio was in a house 8 miles away. Just as his arse dropped out, the friendly help desk staff walked in and asked if he had forgotten to pick it up from her desk as it had been buzzing annoyingly with people trying to hear it for the last 2 hours and she was tired of it!!