Weapons Reported On-Scene by Callers to Emergency Police Dispatch
Meghan Broadbent, MS, Chris Knight, David Warner, Nathan Williams, BS, Greg Scott, MBA, EMD-QI, Jeff J. Clawson, MD, Isabel Gardett, PhD, Christopher Olola, PhD
Apr 03, 2018|AEDR 2018 Vol. 6 Issue 1|Original Research
Providing information about possible weapons on scene is an essential objective of police dispatching and clearly valuable to officer safety. However, up to now, no information has been available about how often callers report weapons as "involved or mentioned" in an incident, what types of weapons are most commonly reported, or which incident types most commonly have reported weapons associated with them. The primary objective of this study is to determine which types of weapons are reported most often and on which Police Priority Dispatch System (PPDS®)...