Radio Traffic Policy

Introduction

The purpose of this policy is to ensure uniformity in the radio procedure and to ensure radio transmissions are on a professional level.

Radio Standards

• No soundboards of any kind may be transmitted/used by personnel.

• You may not go away from the keyboard (aka AFK) in any RTO channel longer than ten (10) minutes.

Having quick, accurate, and professional radio communication is essential to first-responder work. In order to uphold this, the following policies are to be followed completely.

• Active Dispatchers are to be referred to by the following names; Dispatch/Control/Central.

• All personnel is required to utilize their Mobile-Data Terminal (aka MDT) to update their respective status.

• Transmissions of non-emergency nature that are the length of >20 seconds or more shall be made private over a 10-1 channel.

• There shall be a break of three to five seconds between each transmission.

• Always transmit over RTO with a calm voice, however, this does not apply in a stressful or dangerous situation.

• All on-duty members of a department are required to be in their relative RTO based on their area of play.

• All radio transmissions must be extremely professional. It is forbidden to;

  • Transmit messages of personal nature;

  • Transmit unnecessary, unidentified, or superfluous messages;

  • Use profane, indecent, or obscene language or meaning;

  • Interrupt a distress and/or emergency message;

  • Send false distress and/or emergency message;