Dispatching on the police radios is one of the most stressful things you can do as a 911

dispatcher. It can be way more hectic than any 911 call that you take.

When you're on the phone with someone calling about someone involved in a vehicle collision

or a theft or even someone shot, you're dedicated to that one single call.

Nothing else is going on and that call has your complete attention being on the radio you don't have that luxury you have multiple units a lot of time several dozen who all want something from you bits of information they need to do callbacks to find a better location for a caller or suspect,

you're running numbers for driver's license or tag info,

and you're dispatching calls to other officers to get them on the way.

And you're doing all of this, all of it, at the same time,

sometimes having to constantly talk and type, while a headset is on one ear,

and a telephone's on the other. Once you add in a large-scale incident, everyone is running

emergency and one of the info for suspects or victims as soon as possible, and everything just ramps up even more.

One thing that fits square in with all those things I mentioned

are police pursuits.

Out of all the things I enjoy the most about my job,

it's a good pursuit.

It's extremely fast-paced.

It's very interesting to listen to, and chances are you're going to give some help in catching a bad guy. But even as fun as they can be,

they're very dangerous for everyone involved. Officers trained at high-speed emergency driving

have to not only keep their eyes on the

suspect, but every other car around them. The suspect, a lot of times, they have zero regard for

anyone else's safety but their own, so that makes it dangerous for anyone that's out there around

them once the pursuit reaches those high speeds, and this untrained suspect is weaving in and out of lanes or driving the wrong way on a roadway.

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