Hey guys- I work dispatch for a moderately small PD, and a corpral told me I made a few of the officers dislike me a hair by doing the following... and I wanted your input why Id seem like an --- for doing this...
Sense I got hired by the PD a few months ago- Ive started driving sections of the city at day and at night to learn the road and whats on them... to visually see them helps me remember where they are, and my trainer said he thought it a good idea when I suggested my doing it.
Well we have this one buisness thats near the end of a dead-end road near an interstate. The buisness had asked for extra patrol recently because of break-ins. I just happened to go down this road tonight because it was on my way home, and it was just on my list of roads for that section of the map.
When I went down it I noticed a vehicle at the very end of the rd... could not tell what it was, but it wasnt another officers- so I went a loop around the buisness and came up behind the vehicle... it was a dark colored truck with a large trailer on the back- on the trailer was a honda motorcycle. the vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle had out of state plates. it is 3am...so its definatly not the owner if its out of state plates, and he is parked in front of a honda motorcycle dealership- and there have been reports of recent breakins (though unsure if anything was stolen).... I could not see anyone i the vehicle, it looked like it had been temporarily abandoned.
I decided it was enouhg to warrent further info, so I called the dispatcher on duty and just told her that there was a vehicle that appeared abandoned in front of the shop, and it had a motorcycle- ect. if they wanted to send someone to check it out.
I went ahead and left the area after that, but I was told some guys got mad at me for reporting that vehicle like that... it ended up being some guy just looking for a place to sleep for a while, nothing more.
What did I do wrong? I mean- if it was simply a vehicle sitting there I might not have said anything- but there seemed more to it- do you consider it just 'another stupid call'?
This has been bugging me a while.
Sense I got hired by the PD a few months ago- Ive started driving sections of the city at day and at night to learn the road and whats on them... to visually see them helps me remember where they are, and my trainer said he thought it a good idea when I suggested my doing it.
Well we have this one buisness thats near the end of a dead-end road near an interstate. The buisness had asked for extra patrol recently because of break-ins. I just happened to go down this road tonight because it was on my way home, and it was just on my list of roads for that section of the map.
When I went down it I noticed a vehicle at the very end of the rd... could not tell what it was, but it wasnt another officers- so I went a loop around the buisness and came up behind the vehicle... it was a dark colored truck with a large trailer on the back- on the trailer was a honda motorcycle. the vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle had out of state plates. it is 3am...so its definatly not the owner if its out of state plates, and he is parked in front of a honda motorcycle dealership- and there have been reports of recent breakins (though unsure if anything was stolen).... I could not see anyone i the vehicle, it looked like it had been temporarily abandoned.
I decided it was enouhg to warrent further info, so I called the dispatcher on duty and just told her that there was a vehicle that appeared abandoned in front of the shop, and it had a motorcycle- ect. if they wanted to send someone to check it out.
I went ahead and left the area after that, but I was told some guys got mad at me for reporting that vehicle like that... it ended up being some guy just looking for a place to sleep for a while, nothing more.
What did I do wrong? I mean- if it was simply a vehicle sitting there I might not have said anything- but there seemed more to it- do you consider it just 'another stupid call'?
This has been bugging me a while.
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