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I really may have saved a life
I will not mention the name of the officer or the department, but I wanted to share this experience with any other officers and especially dispatchers out there who may encounter that same issue.
Today, about a half hour ago, I was sitting our data channel (where the officers without computers call to get driver licenses, registrations, criminal histories, etc). The officer called me on the air and asked for operator license information. He gave me OLN and name.
Where it got sticky was next. I looked up the calls in our CAD and asked him if he was on a particular call. He said, "No county. Pulled a traffic stop at the Wawa." I asked his dispatcher if she was aware of the the stop and she said he didn't call it in. I quick had her start a traffic stop just in case.
I ran the OLN and it just so happens that it was attached to a prior incident for a report of an armed subject where some one was arrested and taken into custody. I advised him of the info and he said okay. Then, he told me that the driver he stopped just told him that there was a gun in the car! I immediately sent another unit (since they didn't know what he was doing).
Now, the driver was cooperative, but what if another dispatcher hadn't have looked up so much information to find out something that important? What if something had happened to him and nobody knew he was on a traffic stop or even which one of the 3 Wawa stores in their township?
For any other dispatcher who read this or any officer out there that runs accross this little article, please use common sense and some situational awareness. Take the time to let some one know where you are. Your life depends on it... and us.
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Comment by Paul Montpetit on October 5, 2010 at 8:40pm
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Good call....Now pat yourself on the back for doing your job and get back to it.......LOL...that's the kind of "atta-boys" we get in the Department....LOL....joking aside....Good call
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Comment by lutan1 on October 4, 2010 at 5:14pm
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I don't think enough people give dispatchers enough credit- there's some good ones out there (and unfortunately some who aren't!). Good job on your part....
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