[Scan-DC] How quick are snipper calls being dispatched.

Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:20:09 +0000

When a 911 call comes in to a dispatch center the calltaker is sitting in 
front of a computer screen entering the information on the screen. When the 
calltaker presses the send button the call goes to the dispatcher screen 
(police or fire). Also certain classes of calls such as "shooting, stabbing, 
DOA, are sent to the street patrol supervisors, K9, and or other field or 
specialty units. High priority calls like a shooting which would have a 
priority one are to be immediately dispatched. If there are no police units 
to send most dispatchers will at least voice the call to the area 
supervisor. The whole process usually takes under 1 minute.

That said do mistakes happen?, sure they do, but you asked for the average 
response and that sir is the average response.

>From: "Bob Brubaker" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "Bob Brubaker" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Scan-DC] How quick are snipper calls being dispatched.
>Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:38:50 -0400
>
>Anyone know the delay in the various PD's from the time someone calls in a
>sniper shooting till the word gets radio dispatched ?
>
>I live in Fairfax Cnty.  Back when FCPD was still analog, I noticed long
>processing times (5- 7 minutes) between when a call came in and when it got
>dispatched.
>
>This happened even for serious events.   A few years ago a person was being
>robbed at gun-point at the far end of the Springfield mall parking garage.
>One witness called it in on a cell phone as it was happening.  Another ran
>to FCPD annex in the mall.   I don't know how long it took for that person
>to find an officer but the officer used his radio to call in the robbery.
>About 5 minutes later the dispatcher came on with the "real-time" call from
>the cell-phone witness.
>
>I wrote to FCPD but they denied my observation and said emergencies were
>dispatched ASAP.
>
>Bob W4NNG
>
>
>Metroped Inc.   P.O. Box 15077   Alexandria, VA.   22309-0077
>[email protected]     www.metroped.org
>
>
>
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