I worked the front desk the other night, There are 5 “inside” jobs, they are:
1)Dispatcher
2)Calltaker
3)Leaps Operator
4)CellBlock (Beastmaster)
5)Front Desk
The first 3 jobs are all in the communications center/ radio room. The good part about those jobs is that you have companions and TV. The bad part is the NCLV (Nitwit Call LevelVolume) It is very high. I don’t do well with nitwits.
Cellblock is not a bad inside job however once in awhile you get a night where the prisoners will get on your last nerve.
Which brings me to the front desk guy which was me the other night. As the deskman your job is to meet and greet the public when they come in for whatever assistance they seek. While it is true that you have to actually speak with nitwits who quite literally could not chew gum and walk at the same time, You don’t have to actually help them. You as the deskman are a conduit for them to be brought together with the proper patrolman who can help them.
And god help the patrolman who pisses me off when I’m working the desk, Payback is a bitch who aint got none in awhile………
Occasionally though there are jobs that you can at the desk take care of such as :
Stolen car reports
Malicious Damage reports
And Occasionally you get a guy or girl seeking assistance at the front desk who has warrants and you get to arrest them.
Well, I had a nice uneventful night working the desk right up until 00:55 Hrs. five minutes before quitting time, this guy walks in and asks me: “Hey buddy, can you check for me, I think I may have a warrant and I want to clear it up.”
Yup, you guessed it. He had warrants, lots of em, for so many offenses too, there were straight warrants and default warrants, so I bring him downstairs, process, picture and print him, allow him his phone call and with the assistance of the booking officer put him in a cell.
Good part is that I got some overtime pay for the troubles. But my question is as follows:
Who the hell comes in at five till one in the morning to turn themselves in?
Crazy People I tell ya…………..
but you gotta love it, Frankie. You don’t have to go looking for these people, they come to you to be arrested. And not that I think of it, that’s not normal. Who in their right mind would think to do something like that? I heard criminals or the bad guy is stupid, and I guess its true.