Re: Thought you would like this...
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:17 am
yes, I really enjoyed reading it .....well done
Captured very nicely! I hadn't really thought about it that way. If the MWAG did turn out to be a bad guy, then the news would be all over the 911 operator - and police department with the "tragedy that could have been avoided" shpeel, and the naughty, naughty gun rhetoric.Fyrfightr wrote:Werz wrote:I think you have captured that quite nicely. Next come the road officers who are too busy on another call.Mr. Glock wrote:I don't know the first thing about being a dispatcher..like 99.9% of folks on this forum.
But I can guess.
I like my job, lots to do, good benefits. A call comes in from an 18 year old girl at a local suburban retail store. MWAG. I have two choices. I can attempt, over the phone, with a semi-literate retail worker, try to determine the nature of the situation (ending up on the news if I choose wrong). Or, I can send an LEO to check it out, at no risk to my job or anything else.
Easy choice, that.
Add to that when 3 other 911 lines are ringing.