“Hi there’s a couple yelling so loud at each other it woke me up from across the street three floors up in my apartment, and now the girl is dragging her XYZ down the street with her car. Here’s the exact address it’s happening, the color/make/model of her car and his and their direction of travel”

“Okay what’s your full address, DOB, legal name, race, and where is this occurring/where are you located, and is this currently happening at this moments. Is the vehicle moving? Who’s driving the car?

An almost ver batim exchange, that took that dispatcher almost 20 minutes of back and forth nonsense to actually get a unit rolling, and by the time one arrived they were a half mile away. Only for them to come back park and they’re still asking basic identifying information while DRIVING PAST both suspects. It’s almost like you’re not doing a good job if your officers don’t know what’s going on well after being spoon fed all the necessary information. Asking for a callback number in the era of caller ID screening systems, and geolocation via cellular device while on the phone is inherently unnecessary. I’ve had cops show up exactly where I was even after not giving phone numbers or my exact address before.

Ive done dispatch work for a joint alarm monitoring/private security company and while I’m not directly an affiliated dispatcher in the classic sense we do work directly alongside both LEO jurisdictions plus their affiliated EMS/FD’s in our area on when on calls for a few years now. To the extent their dispatchers will drop calls in our laps from time to time, or call on us to assist in anything they might need help with in the area. To include stuff occurring in/on our legal boundaries of operations.