I came across a couple of interesting stories involving police conduct while surfing the web and thought I'd share them with you all. If you have a comment about either, leave them in the comment section.
+ "Officers Under Fire For Radio Chatter"
Indianapolis police and an area school district are investigating claims that officers are using radio frequencies without the proper permission.
John, a licensed ham radio operator and former police, fire and ambulance dispatcher who wanted to remain anonymous, told 6News' Jack Rinehart that late at night, he hears officers have conversations on a frequency licensed to Greenfield Schools.
"It wasn't the type of conversation I would expect to hear on that frequency," John said. "They were talking about cases they were working on. They were running license numbers and talking about people coming and going from an east side apartment complex."
John said he's recorded 72 hours of what sounded like car-to-car conversations, some of them not fit for broadcast.
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+ "Training Becomes Issue After Fatal Police Shooting"
A Boone County (IA) dispatcher who asked a caller to move closer to a knife-wielding suspect has not received basic training offered by the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, Boone County Sheriff Ron Fehr told The Des Moines Register.
The suspect, who witnesses described as acting erratically, was fatally shot Oct. 25 by a Boone police officer inside a Hy-Vee Food Store.
When several people called 911 to report the suspect's behavior, Jeanie Driscoll, a dispatcher for 16 years, asked one caller, "Since you don't have visual on this guy, is there any way you can get to him?"
The caller replied: "Sure. Let me go down. I'm upstairs right now. I'll be just a sec, OK?"
The dispatcher failed to follow internationally recognized standards when she asked the caller to try to locate the suspect, a national group said last week.
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