How long for police to respond to accident?
- Thread starter Jim D
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Is today National Donut Day?
As an officer myself, I feel the need to respond. That question has many different variables depending on the situation. The jurisdiction that I work in is small as far as population but it is very rural. But, there’s two major 4 lane highways that run through it. There are usually 3 officers during the day & 4 at night. If nothing is going on, it’s usually a matter of a few minutes before we’d arrive to a wreck. However, a lot of times there’s calls that require all of us to be on, or have all of us tied up, for an extended period of time and everting else would have to wait. For instance, a major wreck on one of the 4 lane that blocked the whole thing. We’d all have to be there to control traffic & any wrecks that occurred elsewhere would have to wait until we were able to free someone up. Just about any call involving a gun we would all be tied up on, a couple of fights going on at once would tie us up, etc. Point being, most people have no idea what the police are doing & they expect that when they call that their problem should be first priority & everything else second. The reality is that it’s just not how it works. Police can’t just be everywhere at once & there’s usually not a bunch of backup cops just sitting around to go to stuff while everyone else is busy. Sorry if this sounded like a rant. It wasn’t meant to be. I was just trying to explain why it took so long to get to things sometimes.
Always have a couple cigars ready buddy!!! You never know when life will call for um!!!
icehog3
Outlaw Hockey Biker
Sometimes when we were excessively busy with in progress or priority calls, we'd ask the parties in the accident to come to station when time permitted. Of course, only in accidents with no injures where all the vehicles were drivable.
Not a good idea. Those 6 words have a far stronger meaning than you think.
My wife commutes over some very long/high bridges and through New Orleans East on the way to work. I can assure you if she has an accident or for that matter a breakdown either on the bridges or in New Orleans East that statement is not being alarmist.
Cigary43
Just Another Ashhole
In these days and times.....that phrase is almost a constant.
It’s really no different than a lot of other professions. Think about it like this & take the beloved firefighter for example. A house is on fire & they’re in the middle of putting it out, getting people out of the house, saving pets, etc., & another house across town catches on fire while they’re doing this. They’re not gonna stop what they’re doing, let the house that they’re working on burn up, & go to the other house to work on it. Police work the same way. Would it be great if every department was staffed with enough people to do that, HELL YES!!! And, please complain to your local city council, mayor, etc, that you need more officers for these reasons.
That seems to be pretty consistent last couple times I was involved in one.
Jfire
BoM 9/9' 9/11' 8/12'
East, Central , West district.....
Some days 16 calls going at once. (Fire response and ambulance.)
Yes we have had multiple fires going at once at the same time. Bottom line is we could always use more guys. (22K calls a year for a suburban department)
(Btw common practice in fire departments are a Mutual aid box alarm system.)
Your precinct or department doesn’t have that?
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Yeah, the CCC over the river or the Causeway over the lake can be very dangerous to break down on. You legitimately need to have the police come out to get you off of those things.