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  2. Call for service - Wikipedia

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    A call for service (CFS, also known as a job, hitch, incident, callout, call-out, or simply a call) is an incident that emergency services or public safety organizations (such as police, fire departments, and emergency medical services) are assigned to resolve, handle, or assist with. Operationally, a call for service is any incident where ...

  3. Computer-aided dispatch - Wikipedia

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    This helps to disambiguate calls for service and reduces the likelihood of dispatching two reports of a single call for service as two separate calls. Another problem comes from technologies using differing datums or coordinate systems. For example, suppose your AVL system uses degrees-decimal degrees format.

  4. Voice over IP - Wikipedia

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    Example of residential network including VoIP. Mass-market VoIP services use existing broadband Internet access, by which subscribers place and receive telephone calls in much the same manner as they would via the PSTN. Full-service VoIP phone companies provide inbound and outbound service with direct inbound dialing. Many offer unlimited ...

  5. Dispatch (logistics) - Wikipedia

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    There is a limit to how many field units can be managed. This varies with circumstances. For example, a parcel delivery service dispatcher may encounter higher traffic around Christmas. Work is not evenly distributed across time: in any dispatch system there are traditional peaks or busy hours in requests for service.

  6. End of Watch Call - Wikipedia

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    The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.

  7. Ten-code - Wikipedia

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    A simple code for service dispatches relating to corrections, repetitions, etc. A standard arrangement of the context of messages, (for example, name and description of missing person might be transmitted as follows: Name, age, height, weight, physical characteristics, clothing; if car used, the license, make, description and motor number.

  8. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    An example of a P6 call is community outreach, patrols or property to collect. The KPI for attendance of P6's is 30 days. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services have two response codes: [10] Fire Call is the response that authorises lights and sirens, and disobeying road laws within reason.

  9. Telecommunications relay service - Wikipedia

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    A typical relay service conversation. A telecommunications relay service, also known as TRS, relay service, or IP-relay, or Web-based relay service, is an operator service that allows people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or have a speech disorder to place calls to standard telephone users via a keyboard or assistive device.