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Wed Jan 15 18:24:50 AEDT 2020

I know what you mean there Mike and fully agree.

It is/was however the Police’s radio network after all and Fire had to put up with it.

The Community Patrol guys have not changed much either.

You can still listen to them on the analogue channels calling Timaru Watch house if you want to take a step back in time. HIHI

Regards

Brendan

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From: Mike Trump<mailto:mtrump at orcon.net.nz>
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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.

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