Example of what you may hear: “1 XXXX 12”
Where: 1= Shift
- 1=A shift
- 2=B shift
- 3=C shift
- 4=shift that overlaps C and A
- 5=specialized unit
Where: XXXX= Unit Type
Where: 12= District
Unit Types:
- Able-1: Air Support Unit
- Adam: One Officer District Patrol Car
- Alpha: Auto theft Detective
- Baker: Two Officer District Patrol Car
- Beat: One or two Officers Beat Patrol Car
- High Crime areas
- Bravo: Burglary Detective
- Charles: Crime Lab
- Command: Sergeants and Lieutenants
- Command “#0” -Command Sargent
- 10,20-Northwest
- 30,40-Northeast
- 40,50-Southeast
- 70,80-Southwest
- COMMAND 1-Northwest LT
- COMMAND 2-Northeast LT
- COMMAND 3-Southeast LT
- COMMAND 4-Southwest LT
- Command “#0” -Command Sargent
- Delta: Gang Unit
- Edward: Emergency Response Team
- SWAT
- Bomb Squad
- Negotiators
- George: OPD Detective
- Henry: Homicide Detective
- Ida: Intelligence/Vice Detective
- John: Headquarters Font Desk
- King: Canine Unit
- Mounted: Horse Mounted Patrol
- Nora: Narcotics Detective
- Ocean: School Resource Officer (SRO)
- Paul: Proactive Street Patrol
- Usually does not respond to radio calls
- Precinct: Precinct Captain
- Solo: Motorcycle Patrol Officer
- Tom: Traffic Enforcement and Investigation Unit
- Union: Internal Affairs
- Zebra: Off-Duty Officer
- Example: “ZEBRA###” where “###” would be the officer’s badge number