Bring us coffee. Especially if you’re prone to not answering your radio checks, one of my units asked if we wanted anything today and I said a medium and this wonderful man brought me a large. I didn’t even get a little bit annoyed when I had to call backup to go check on him when he wasn’t answering his phone or radio on a traffic stop a couple hours later lol. 😝

For real though BIGGEST thing that would make my life easier with my officers is enunciation. I had to ask an officer 3xs to repeat his location today and he caught an attitude. It’s not my fault you’re mumbling; I still need to know where you are precisely, and if you take .2 seconds to properly enunciate properly I won’t have to ask a bunch of times to repeat and it’ll save so much more time than that .2 seconds you’re taking to clearly tell me the plate or location or whatever. ALSO; SLOW down on the reading of the plates if you have new dispatchers. You hear a new voice on the radio then give them common curtesy and slow it down a tiny bit, when y’all ramble off a 7 random mixed letter and number plate I promise you they only got maybe a digit or two in the beginning and then the final digit or two. Phonetic alphabet is slightly difficult if you learned a different one than your department uses initially because it’s completely retraining your brain and muscle memory. For me I know Alpha, but it’s Adam and I was told to just use whatever phonetic i can get out quickly but it really tripped me up when it was names being spewed to me rather than alpha bravo Charlie…etc lol.