"L Sternn" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:52:40 GMT, "jaybird" > wrote:
>
>>> What's an 18-year veteran doing answering the 911 phone? From
>>> everything I've heard, in spite of its importance, that's not exactly a
>>> job that requires 18 years of training and experience.
>>
>>It's not a job that requires that much experience at all. It is probably
>>a
>>position for someone close to retirement who wants a break from the
>>streets
>>for his last few years.
>
> There's a regular over in a stoner newsgroup who used to be a 999
> operator (The UK uses 999 instead of 911).
>
> But he's moving up in the world. Now he's works in collections for a
> credit card company.
>
> 911 operator is a job that shouldn't be given to some cop who is
> close to retirement unless he's willing to take a big pay cut.

See, this is another issue I'm having with you, and I don't mean to sound
condescending, or "cavalier" as you put it before, just irritated. You keep
interjecting your personal opinion on how these things are done, yet you
don't have any practical experience on the procedures and you get yourself
all worked up.

Some departments rotate cops in and out of dispatch just so they'll have
someone there for legal advice on assigning calls. Dispatchers don't
usually have much formal criminal law training so they might have a cop or
two assigned on a temporary basis but there could be many different reasons.

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jaybird
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