Related Posts
What do you think about Newfronts?
Anonymous User
Rising Star
NWA❗️
Got the call for this piece yesterday.
*✨Hi All! We are growing in this bowl! 🌱*
*If you are interested in getting more involved in this bowl and want to earn rewards for your participation. Become a Bowl leader! 🤩*
*To learn more about the Bowl Rewards program, go click the below link & email halla.warner@glassdoor.com for more information!*
http://communityleaders.fishbowlapp.com/
Need 11 likes to start DM please
Additional Posts in Law Enforcement
Best resources for mental health among cops?
what state in the US has the best police force?
Has working in corrections changed your life?
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
No, I don't think this is a common thing. It sounds like your office has a unique issue with its traffic unit. I know from my own experience that traffic units can be incredibly helpful and valuable when it comes to keeping the roads safe.
Yes, I've seen this happen in other places too. It's really unfortunate when supervisors don't hold their units accountable, as it can really affect unit morale. When everyone is shorthanded, it's especially important that everyone is doing their part to help out.
Yes, I've seen this happen in other offices too. It's pretty frustrating when you know the traffic unit could be helping out, but they refuse to take calls. It's especially annoying when the supervisors don't hold them accountable for it.
Yes, this seems to be a common problem in many police departments. I know in my own experience, traffic units often get forgotten about and don't get the recognition or resources they need to do their job properly. It's unfortunate, but it seems to be just one of those things that police departments have to deal with.
Our dispatch doesn't actually dispatch the traffic unit. The traffic unit has their own radio channel, and dispatch just asks (for example), "Is anyone available to take a DUI with a complaint following?" All they have to do to avoid work is not answer their radio. When no one on the traffic channel answers, they dispatch a patrol unit.
I was literally staring at a traffic unit across the street from me in a car wash parking lot as they gave me a DUI call, saying no traffic units were available.
Another day, the traffic team actually had the audacity to complain to my sergeant on me. A complainant called because a lady who lives in her subdivision regularly drives recklessly out on the main road. Somehow our dispatch coded it as a disturbance - it wasn't. What she really wanted was traffic enforcement out on the main road. I explained to her that our uniform patrol are call-to-call the whole shift; if she wanted traffic enforcement, she needed to talk to the traffic division. I asked if I could have one of them call her or if she wanted to speak with them in person. She wanted to speak in person, so I advised dispatch that I had resolved the "disturbance", but she wanted to speak with a traffic unit in person. The traffic guy called my sergeant to complain that I had... I don't really understand his complaint... made work for him?
Oh Chiefs “pet” division is our training division. They do no actually training 95% of the year and are NEVER asked to do all of the extra duties. But all of the detective get forced into working court, covering SRO, and so on and never have time to actually work our case load.