Guest guest Posted June 16, 2003 Report Share Posted June 16, 2003 , Just a thought: I was looking through my SOPs to see if we addressed Nextels (or any secondary means of communications other than our primary radio system) and you might want to just make sure radio system useage expectations are clearly covered and not add " another " policy to the deck. I'm not always in favor of another new edict (although sometimes it cannot be avoided...) I can email you a copy of our police communications manual off list if you want to get an idea (I'll reference the items I am referring to). It is up to you. I'm begining to see the need to streamline policies (having more is just that...more.) Also the goal is to have them operate on the primary radio system properly and a policy like that may only serve (as one comrade puts it) to " fight the octopus by its tentacles... " instead of going right for the head (or the root of the problem). We not only have Nextels , we have other cell phones, local " township " radios where our units can talk outside of our radio system (we are a consolidated center not one department - thus, this may or may not relate). If they want to use the county system they must abide by the mutually agreed upon policies approved by their representatives to our advisory board. Let me know, I'd be glad to send you a copy. Respects, Steve R. Bucks Co 911 (PA) > I too am in search of Nextel Policies. We are a center (almost off the ground) that will dispatch for 5 police & 5 fire departments, Nextel is the choice of device for the Fire command side and a few of our Police Admin people have them. One of our cities just entered into an agreement in which they received 50+ phones, so I want to " nip it in the bud " before they get out of hand. > > Any policy I write will designate the Nextel system (at least in our center) as a secondary communications device, mainly used by us to contact them, not vice versa. We will also have a Nextel console phone that I have the ability to record any conversations that are specifically with out agency. > > > > > B. > General Manager > East Central Dispatch Center > St. Louis, Missouri > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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