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Wed Jan 15 18:47:33 AEDT 2020

Community Patrol Radio procedure in all the regions ive listened to 
Police channels are absolutely atrocious. Do they not get given any 
training??

On 15/01/2020 8:16 p.m., Mike Trump wrote:
> 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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