This entire dispatch thing

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The campus is not that big of a geographical area people. One TPD officer would have 4x's the area in the City to answer a call given to them. And we have some dumb ass breakdown of zones in this 1600 acres of campus and who to send to a call! And on top of that they have put a Sgt. in charge of dispatch to figure this all out and make a bunch of convoluted rules on how to dispatchers will operate to send officers to a call? It's wasting minutes from when the original call was called in! It's not that hard! Send out the damn call, someone should answer, if they don't then the Supervisor working should assign it if no one answers to someone, based on his/her knowledge of what's going on and who already is down a report ect...., The campus area is too small. for this kind of BS.

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The campus is not that big of a geographical area people. One TPD officer would have 4x's the area in the City to answer a call given to them. And we have some dumb ass breakdown of zones in this 1600 acres of campus and who to send to a call! And on top of that they have put a Sgt. in charge of dispatch to figure this all out and make a bunch of convoluted rules on how to dispatchers will operate to send officers to a call? It's wasting minutes from when the original call was called in! It's not that hard! Send out the damn call, someone should answer, if they don't then the Supervisor working should assign it if no one answers to someone, based on his/her knowledge of what's going on and who already is down a report ect...., The campus area is too small. for this kind of BS.

Convoluted? We've all seen the "convoluted" rules. Forgetting the size and the necessity of it all argument, that shit is not that hard. They need to just do what they're told and it wouldn't be so difficult. That goes for sworn as well. This agency is dragging itself into the 21st century and that's a good thing. I agree it shouldn't be this hard or complicated but this isn't a democracy. Besides, most of us are embarrassed by the antiquated beliefs and procedures. So as far as I'm concerned convolute away.

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The zones have been around forever. The additional zones help the capt keep track of grant assignments, ILP, and various other tracking and statistical stuff. Dispatch could care less about zones. The only thing it helps them out with is assigning calls to officers so they don't have to hear some whine about getting too many calls. As for the sgt in communications, who cares. At least he's off the street where he can't cause any more problems.

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In my opinion Silent Dispatch, is not a good thing for this agency. It works well with bigger agencies that cover a lot of area and it takes them several minutes to get to the call. On this small campus, the officers can be on scene very quickly on a hot call and there is no time to wait for dispatchers to enter the info into the call. That works on delayed calls, but for hot calls officers need the immediate info given to the dispatchers while they are actually still on the phone with the complainant in most cases for a hot call. It causes precious time loss otherwise.

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In my opinion Silent Dispatch, is not a good thing for this agency. It works well with bigger agencies that cover a lot of area and it takes them several minutes to get to the call. On this small campus, the officers can be on scene very quickly on a hot call and there is no time to wait for dispatchers to enter the info into the call. That works on delayed calls, but for hot calls officers need the immediate info given to the dispatchers while they are actually still on the phone with the complainant in most cases for a hot call. It causes precious time loss otherwise.

That's already been addressed. In progress or priority calls will not be silently dispatched.