[Scan-DC] Fw: FW: Fw: "Signal 13" - Montgomery County Police?

[David Lloyd]

I kind of like the idea of the officer doing a traffic stop and the warrant
check coming back in plain voice "Yup! That subject is wanted in 10 states!"
To me, it would make sense to only use plain voice in times where
multi-jurisdictional response occurs. It still pains me when the dispatchers
call for "priority response" and "restricted air". One element of good
police and investigative work is the element of surprise, which plain voice
eliminates.  I'm not saying that crooks don't know 10 codes, but it would
seem less likely. 

Of course, there was that time when Monkeygomery tried to use the EMD
Dispatch codes.  "We're responding to a what-the-heck-is-a-9E1??"

Ah well, it's their world, we just listen to it :)

David



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Subject: Fw: [Scan-DC] FW:  Fw:  "Signal 13" - Montgomery County Police?


Come on! Signal/10-13 is a universal (almost) message for: "I'm in deep
s***. Sent me help 
FORTHWITH !"
The powers that be on Mt. Olympus want to change it to Signal-1, or some
such generic crap ? Since we're all going to "plain English" (for now; if
we're going to be PC we'll have to have bilingual radio runs), why don't we
have them scream the aforementioned sentence over the channel ?
-GM