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

[Kenneth Fowler]

What they are still trying to prevent is the officer standing next to
a wanted person and the dispatcher just comes out saying, "yep, he is
wanted" without the officer securing his radio first.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:14 PM, David Lloyd <lloydde at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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?
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>
> 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
>
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