Bill to list Dispatchers as first responders

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You have to admit many of them put investigative info in based on what they feel happened to manipulate the out come

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So what's your plan when MDT is offline and you have to readily be able to operate on radio only? It happens bro.......

Classic HCSO brass mentality...."What if?"


What if aliens land in unincorporated Hillsborough County? It could happens ya know...


You wanna know how many times in my career, the MDT has gone done while I'm working? ZERO. And I've been working since the DXT days. But if it makes you feel better we can have a hard copy of this "If the MDT goes down, voice everything." inside a glass box inside the comm center. With "BREAK THE GLASS IN CASE THE MDT GOES DOWN" printed on the glass.

Obviously the “4Quebec..” pos(t)er does not work here, stop falling in these guys traps.

Or just maybe they didn't want to single out any actual squads......... hmmmmm

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Classic HCSO brass mentality...."What if?"

You wanna know how many times in my career, the MDT has gone done while I'm working? ZERO.

It went down today numbnutz. AT&T Network outage.

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Pornstar gets hired as a Police Dispatcher
The truth must be told and known by the community.
As a public servant a dispatcher is held to a higher standard of professionalism, therefore a pornstar should have never been hired.
She is a good example of the bad hiring practices

She should’ve stayed in porn. She got paid a lot more to get F’d over. Now she’s going to bend and take it in the butt for practically free. Bad money sense that one!

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Completely for this bill. Most dispatchers barely make enough money to live on in the first place. If you've never been to the comm center, you have no idea what they have to hear on a daily basis. It takes a toll on a person mentally, ask any of the dispatchers that have been there for over two years. They answer hundreds of calls a night and never get any closure. Ask some of the dispatchers about the worst call they ever took, I bet you they can name at least 10 that come to mind immediately. As far as the information on calls, half the people on the phone don't want to give them any information at all or be involved. At any point in time you can go there and see how difficult the job is. As far as radio traffic, not all of them do that, and half the deputies talk way more on the radio then they need to. Hope the bill is passed.

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I agree they are an essential part of doing business; however, they are not first responders. I recognize their job, as you described is stressful; however, they are not first responders. If they need a raise, give them a raise; but they are not first responders. Let’s not give them a title to increase their income, the bill is ridiculous.

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Completely for this bill. Most dispatchers barely make enough money to live on in the first place. If you've never been to the comm center, you have no idea what they have to hear on a daily basis. It takes a toll on a person mentally, ask any of the dispatchers that have been there for over two years. They answer hundreds of calls a night and never get any closure. Ask some of the dispatchers about the worst call they ever took, I bet you they can name at least 10 that come to mind immediately. As far as the information on calls, half the people on the phone don't want to give them any information at all or be involved. At any point in time you can go there and see how difficult the job is. As far as radio traffic, not all of them do that, and half the deputies talk way more on the radio then they need to. Hope the bill is passed.

I agree they need a big fat raise! The more the better. However, they are not first responders.

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Completely for this bill. Most dispatchers barely make enough money to live on in the first place. If you've never been to the comm center, you have no idea what they have to hear on a daily basis. It takes a toll on a person mentally, ask any of the dispatchers that have been there for over two years. They answer hundreds of calls a night and never get any closure. Ask some of the dispatchers about the worst call they ever took, I bet you they can name at least 10 that come to mind immediately. As far as the information on calls, half the people on the phone don't want to give them any information at all or be involved. At any point in time you can go there and see how difficult the job is. As far as radio traffic, not all of them do that, and half the deputies talk way more on the radio then they need to. Hope the bill is passed.

Boo ****ing hoo. Have they ever taken their boots off outside and sprayed human brains off the soles? Have they ever walked down the interstate with FHP picking up body parts from a fatal motorcycle crash? Has someone ever tried to kill them with forethought and planning? Have they ever resisted the urge to strangle the life out of a kiddie rapist they're interviewing? Because I've been there.

I'm not saying the calls aren't stressful. I'm not saying they don't necessarily deserve a raise. I'm not saying they don't often get treated like shit. I've seen the Comm Center more than I care to and a lot of times the morale there sucks. The shit comments in calls, the asinine call coding (news flash, a homeless guy sleeping isn't a ****ing 671 and a broken down car on the highway isn't a s/3), and other stuff are training issues. That can be fixed. But they're not first responders. Call things what they are and stop diluting titles to make people feel good. Sworn personnel, some of us anyway, deserve the premium written into the law.

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Boo ****ing hoo. Have they ever taken their boots off outside and sprayed human brains off the soles? Have they ever walked down the interstate with FHP picking up body parts from a fatal motorcycle crash? Has someone ever tried to kill them with forethought and planning? Have they ever resisted the urge to strangle the life out of a kiddie rapist they're interviewing? Because I've been there.

I'm not saying the calls aren't stressful. I'm not saying they don't necessarily deserve a raise. I'm not saying they don't often get treated like shit. I've seen the Comm Center more than I care to and a lot of times the morale there sucks. The shit comments in calls, the asinine call coding (news flash, a homeless guy sleeping isn't a ****ing 671 and a broken down car on the highway isn't a s/3), and other stuff are training issues. That can be fixed. But they're not first responders. Call things what they are and stop diluting titles to make people feel good. Sworn personnel, some of us anyway, deserve the premium written into the law.

Give them 3% per year towards pension. They at least deserve that.

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Boo ****ing hoo. Have they ever taken their boots off outside and sprayed human brains off the soles? Have they ever walked down the interstate with FHP picking up body parts from a fatal motorcycle crash? Has someone ever tried to kill them with forethought and planning? Have they ever resisted the urge to strangle the life out of a kiddie rapist they're interviewing? Because I've been there.

I'm not saying the calls aren't stressful. I'm not saying they don't necessarily deserve a raise. I'm not saying they don't often get treated like shit. I've seen the Comm Center more than I care to and a lot of times the morale there sucks. The shit comments in calls, the asinine call coding (news flash, a homeless guy sleeping isn't a ****ing 671 and a broken down car on the highway isn't a s/3), and other stuff are training issues. That can be fixed. But they're not first responders. Call things what they are and stop diluting titles to make people feel good. Sworn personnel, some of us anyway, deserve the premium written into the law.

Well said. Their jobs are very hard. They deserve to make more money, but they are not and will never be first responders.

This is just one of many trends towards the complete disregard and undermining of the screwed up trauma that is being a cop. Especially during these times full of thankless unappreciative disrespectful degenerate millennials that think they know how to do our jobs because they watch Law and Order and because their uncle went to the police academy in Georgia ten years ago. Especially in this liberal county and sorry judicial district.

We have awareness for all kinds of BS. Save the whales, save the snails, LGBQ, minority this and that. With zero awareness of what cops do snd how they are affected. Even when a little awareness emerges, there is no change.

Name one change in the last ten years designed to better the mental health of cops? Nothing reactive like EAP or some ocupational health therapist. I mean proactive? Like having a mandatory minimum staffing on squads to even out the loaf. Why is there one detention deputy to 72 inmates? Is that mentally healthy?

Dispatchers are not first responders. We are. And thats it.