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Posted: Sun Aug 27th, 2006 02:45 am |
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WOW! Iv met a lot of NYPD guys on here but no one from LAPD! So Iv always wondered how LAPD’S radio call sings work? See here in Richmond a small college city are officers all go buy 3 number call sign’s. 100’s are chefs and Major’s 200’s are Lt’s 300’s are Sgt’s and 400’s are officers. But in Lexington witch is a bigger city at al depends on your precinct so how does LAPD do it? Thanks
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Posted: Sun Aug 27th, 2006 02:59 am |
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Okay, pretty simple. The calls sign of any unit is a three part designation: Like 1A12. 1-A-12 The first part tells you what division they work:
1 Central
2 Rampart
3 Southwest
4 Hollenbeck
5 Harbor
6 Hollywood
7 Wilshire
8 West Los Angeles
9 Van Nuys
10 West Valley
11 Northeast
12 77th Street
13 Newton
14 Pacific
15 North Hollywood
16 Foothill
17 Devonshire
18 Southeast
19 Mission Area
24 Central Traffic
25 South Traffic
34 West Traffic
35 Valley Traffic
So, we know the first part - of 1A12 means the unit is assigned central division. The second part -A- or Adam is the type of unit.
Adam Two officer patrol car
Boy Two officer patrol van (typically the drunk wagon)
Crash Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums
Cycle Bicycle patrol
David Support staff
Edward Traffic enforcement
Frank Felony enforcement
FrankBoy Foot Patrol
Henry Administrative Services
John Juvenile Investigator
King Detectives
Lincoln Lone Officer *
Mary Motorcycle
Paul Special events supervisor
Queen Special events
SLO "slow" Senior Lead Officer
Tom Traffic Investigation
Union Report taking "U-boat"
Victor Vice
William Divisional detective
X-ray Extra patrol
Young Special services
Zebra Special patrol
So, now we know that 1A12, was a two-man unit (Adam) working in Central divsion. The twelve part tells you something also. Odd number units are regular watches, like days, PM and AM. The even number units are Mid-watches, the start work at times like 1000, 1800, etc. Also, the 12 refers to the beat the unit works....so, in central divison, you could have a 1A12, 1A44, 1A66, and so on...just different units in the same division on the same watch...now, units ending in zero mean some kind of supervision -
10 Watch commander
20 Field Supervisor
30 Field Supervisor
40 Field Supervisor
50 Field Supervisor
60 Field Supervisor
70 Field Supervisor
80 Public Relations
90 Station
So, 1L10 is the central division watch commander.....
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Christopher
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Posted: Wed Oct 4th, 2006 03:43 am |
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My San Gabriel Valley, CA agency is similar, but on a much smaller scale
1)Every call sign starts with the #4, no one is quite sure why, but it is often omitted when the radio gets busy
2) the second number is the shift 1, 2, 3 for graveyard, day shift, swing shift
3) is the beat 1, 2, 3 or 4. If there is an extra unit that does not have beat responsibility he would be 5.
For non patrol officers the 3rd number would be
8- Patrol supervisor, or Sgt when there is no LT on duty
9- Watch commander or LT when no Sgt is on duty
Specialized units work like this for the 2nd and 3rd number
Traffic officers/motors
91, 92, 93, 94
Civilian report takers
81,82,83
Detectives and and others that don't use the radio often use the last 3 numbers of their telephone extension as their call sign.
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