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Officers use mobile electronic devices to: - ✔✔-Access information
regarding criminal records
-Driving history
-Agency records
Most Common Electronic Device - ✔✔Radio
You will use the radio to: - ✔✔-Send and receive vital information
-Call for backup
-Identify a Suspect or wanted person
Police radio communication generally relies on: - ✔✔1. Dispatch console or
base station used by 911
2. Vehicle-mounted Radio
3. Portable/handheld radio
Public Safety Telecommunications (PST's) - ✔✔Generally non sworn
personnel who operate the radio and telecommunications systems.
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Their duties include answering, receiving, transferring, and dispatching
functions related to 911 calls.
PST's - ✔✔-Dispatch law enforcement officers
-Dispatch fire, rescue, and emergency medical services
-Dispatch other public safety services to the scene of an emergency
Provide real-time information from federal, state, and local crime databases
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibits: - ✔✔-Transmitting
nonessential or excessive signals messages or communication.
-Using profane, indecent, or obscene language
-Willfully damaging or permitting damage to radio apparatuses
-Maliciously interfering with another units radio transmission
-Making unidentified transmission
-Transmitting before the air is clear and interfering with other transmissions
-Transmitting a call signal, letter, or numeral not assigned to the station or
unit
-Adjusting, repairing, or altering a radio transmitter
Florida's Secretary of State requires - ✔✔All radio transmissions be
retained for 30 days.
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Appropriate radio system use includes relaying: - ✔✔-Law enforcement
related massages to other agencies within the state, or another state
-Drivers license status and driver history
-Facilitating calls for service
-Criminal records checks
-Hazardous material queries
-Vehicle, boat, and aircraft registration queries
-Road condition and weather queries
Radio Protocol - ✔✔Describes the customs and regulations for constructing
and transmitting radio messages.
It also includes the proper use of codes and signals, which may be different
among agencies and regions.
Radio Codes and Signals: - ✔✔Save airtime and express exact and
definite meanings.
4 Basic Radio Codes - ✔✔1. Signals
2. Phonetic-alpha code
3. Ten or Numeric Code
4. Alphanumeric Code