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The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
French, lit. "salad basket", slang for a police van (cf. fourgon de police). Parak Slang term used for policemen in the Philippines. Paw Patrol Slang term for K-9 units or Dog Units in the UK. Party Van Russian, a police car or van, especially one housing an entire squad and sent out to perform a search-and-seizure and/or an arrest at a ...
A rookie police officer. Bear A police officer. (See "Smokey" below) Bear bite/Invitation A speeding ticket. Bear cave/Bear's den A police station. Bear in the air A police officer in some form of aircraft (see "Eye in the sky"). Bear rolling discos A speeding police car with its lights flashing. Bear trap Radar or speed trap. Bear with ears
In an additional 911 call shortly before police arrived, a neighbor of Durham’s tells another dispatcher that someone outside Durham’s house “destroyed the top of his car” outside and was ...
Police dispatcher Kim Krause answered a 10-year-old’s plea for homework help last Friday. WBAY Shawano County Sheriff Deputy Chase Mason went to the boy’s home and helped with his homework.
In one of the 911 calls, first reported by CNN in the months after the shooting, a 10-year-old girl trapped in a classroom tells the police dispatcher to “hurry” as there are “a lot of dead ...
The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [ 1 ] The codes, developed during 1937–1940 and expanded in 1974 by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO), allow brevity and standardization of message traffic.
A police radio dispatcher's desk from the Netherlands. Emergency service response codes are predefined systems used by emergency services to describe the priority and response assigned to calls for service. Response codes vary from country to country, jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and even agency to agency, with different methods used to ...