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Wed Jan 15 18:16:23 AEDT 2020

Yup,
Quite right there, Brendan, Fire here in Ashburton used to share with 
Mid/South Canterbury Police.
Don't get me wrong but, it used to be a real pain listening to the 
Police side of things, it would be all drunk drivers,
domestic incidents, driver checks, you name it, I was a Fire-fighter for 
a number of years down here and you'd be at the pump panel operating the 
pump, talking to the people involved in a given incident, when there 
would be a police officer turn up on the radio explaining that a guy had 
beaten his wife up or whatever, it really used to make me cringe....
And then later on in the evening of a weekend, you would have the 
"Community Patrol" guys on there, calling the Watch-house in Timaru,
it was painful to listen to and I would often just shut the radio off 
and do something else.
These folks do a great community service as volunteers, however their 
radio procedures were (and probably still are) terrible.
I'm quite glad the Police went Digital, things like that shouldn't come 
out on other Emergency Services radios, unless the OIC changes the 
channel in the appliance.

Cheers,
Mike T.