[TheList] Emergency Services Protocols and Call Signs

Mon Apr 13 13:11:44 AEST 2020

Without stating what is probably fairly obvious to most, Fire and Police 
do share channels at times out in the wop wops.

On 13/04/2020 2:53 p.m., James Nicholson wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Grant, apologies, from my home in Auckland, I can only hear Police on 
> the Area 1 Waikato Rural channel. Occasionally hear Area 2 Northland 
> channel from the North Shore. Being able to hear metro channels on the 
> scanner back in the day was great.
>
> Regarding Dunedin and Central Otago channels, thanks for the response. 
> That will have to satisfy my interest for now until I can travel 
> again! I have taken a look through The List Archives, and can see 
> there are several articles to peruse through.
>
> I do know of a firefighter who used to be based in the Nelson area 
> about ten years ago, and they described there could often be times 
> when Police and Fire would want to talk at the same time.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James.
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 13:57, Grant Carroll <grant.carroll at xtra.co.nz 
> <mailto:grant.carroll at xtra.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys,
>
>     I travel up to Nelson and Blenheim regularly with work and listen
>     to the Tasman police channels up there and occasionally down to
>     Dunedin where you can hear both the Dunedin and Central Otago
>     channels.
>
>     There is definitely a range of informality but I think this
>     relates more to the Comms operator. There are a couple of guys who
>     do the Tasman channels (the funniest one is Sean) who are total
>     crackups and keep everyone amused (even those using scanners!). I
>     also heard these guys on Canterbury channels before they went
>     digital and they behaved the same way.
>
>     James - you mentioned that the Auckland metro police channels are
>     quite disciplined and if you are commenting about things currently
>     it raises the obvious question of how are you managing to still
>     listen to them?
>
>     Cheers and hope everyone is staying safe.
>
>     Grant.
>
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