raccoon
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Mon Jan-04-10 02:26 PM
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"Communications specialist" for a police department--does this mean a dispatcher? |
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Anybody ever worked as a dispatcher/communications specialist?
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Mon Jan-04-10 02:30 PM
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1. No, that's the guy who calls in the orders for Duncan Donuts. |
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Mon Jan-04-10 09:35 PM
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6. I thought it was Dunkable Donuts. dc |
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Mon Jan-04-10 02:33 PM
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2. My guess would be someone who could interpret from police to english |
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Mon Jan-04-10 02:39 PM
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3. Sounds more like P.R. person |
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My county's sheriff's department has one until he died in a car wreck year or so ago. Whenever something department-related hit the news (murder, fatal car wreck, officer screw-up, etc.), he was the spokesperson who would answer reporters' questions. They never replaced him, likely due to budgetary issues.
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Mon Jan-04-10 04:35 PM
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4. that's what we call our dispatchers... |
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never worked as one, I can't sit still that long
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Mon Jan-04-10 04:41 PM
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5. in my experience it does |
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i know one current and one former dispatcher. the experience, of course, depends on the size of the department. one of my friends works overnights for a small campus pd, so she has a lot of slow nights. my other friend and i haven't spoken much about her experience.
but i've spoken with a lot of dispatchers in the past who say it can be an extremely stressful job.
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