[GreenKeys] [hanyou at xsmail.com: Re: Police teletype]

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Wow, this is a first - I’ve never had nor seen someone call out bs on this mailing list before ;o .  Do you think if I was bs’ing, I’d really take out the time to type that long email late last night ;o ?  I never said my brother was in a police cruiser, although I can see how the two can be related… also I didn’t say the system was for background checks.  I’m telling you what I know from someone who I know (my brother, no less) - and that someone being high up on the food chain, within that unnamed agency.  Think whatever you want, man :/ …..


> On May 29, 2020, at 2:31 pm, Tim <polohat at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sounds like complete & utter BS. 
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>  These days, officers using MDCs in their vehicles, and even using smartphones, are able to access 
> the FBI's CJIS/NCIC to run criminal history checks, etc. and receive important federal, state & local BOLs 
> that include photos -- they sure as heck aren't using teletypes to do that.    Someone's been watching 
> too many old police movies & TV shows, or listening to a scanner, where out of tradition, an agency may 
> still have the word "teletype" in their vernacular, just like in some areas (Ohio, Oklahoma...) public 
> safety dispatch says "public service" instead of "telephone."     
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> https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis 
> https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ncic 
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> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Police teletype	From: "E." <hanyou at xsmail.com>	Date: 5/28/2020, 9:32 PM
> Something interesting my brother told me a few weeks ago.  After I met up halfway with Paul - to pick up the Teletypes he was giving me, my parents called my brother, to ask him if he would help me with moving some stuff.  He asked what and hey told him Teletypes.  He said, oh yeah, I know Teletypes.  They asked how??!
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> Well, I ended up asking him.  A little background - my brother works for a law enforcement agency.  I won???t say who or what to protect him??? but he told me that the office/agency that he works for still uses them!??? and on top of that, all of the various offices/agencies around the state has one, connected to the same national circuit!  He says that it???s a two-week course to get certified on using one.  These Teletypes are hooked up to the FBI APB ???wire??? (well, at least I???m going to call it a wire ;p ).  He can???t take pictures of it because it???s in a secure location and the certification process is so that the FBI doesn???t get mad when an operator messes up??? he???s going to try to get me the model number once everyone???s back at the office (pandemic!) - but he described it as a Teletype, being hooked up to a computer-like terminal interface, connected to the FBI.  I asked him how in the heck is the FBI still using Teletypes in this day in age and he said !
>  that apparently it???s the quickest way the FBI has to get APBs out to everyone across the country.
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> I find it very interesting - the more you learn, huh ;p ?  Might explain why the one Policeman in that local newspaper article from last year said that they got the information on the wanted man they soon would arrest from ???Teletype???.  Cool beans ;D ~
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