Vocabulary
Codes
Time Conversion
Maps
Radio Protocol
100
A tax added to your phone, internet, cable, or other bill, used to fund 911 system infrastructures.
What is a surcharge?
100
420
What is Homicide?
100
Military time for 10:00am
What is 1000hrs?
100
Department that uses 100 block system.
What is LVMPD?
100
The officer identification number on the radio.
What is a call sign?
200
As a LVMPD officer is sworn in, they are given this to identify themselves with, and it never changes throughout their career at LVMPD.
What is a personnel #?
200
Traffic Problem- Department Exercise
What is 438X?
200
Military time of 6:45am
What is 0645hrs?
200
System that does not use the numeral 0.
What is the District/Phantom system?
200
The first number in a call sign giving this information.
What is the shift?
300
Mapping system by Emergency Medical Services to pinpoint locations quicker and more efficiently in response to medical emergencies.
What is the District/Phantom system?
300
D, G, S, X, and Z.
What are letters that can be added to any code to define the incident further?
300
Military time for 6:30pm.
What is 1830hrs?
300
Number of Phantoms in each District.
What is 81?
300
Radio terminology used to ask for a tow truck.
What is request a wrecker?
400
Center responsible for answering calls to an emergency telephone number for police, firefighting, and ambulance services.
What is 911 system?
400
Rolling code.
What is responding with lights and siren?
400
Standard time for 2222hrs.
What is 10:22pm?
400
The higher the addresses get in the 100 Block System.
What happens the farther you get from the center of town?
400
The number of LVMPD Area Commands
What is 8?
500
Telephone equipment that routes calls to the nearest public safety agency communications center and in most cases displays the caller’s location and telephone number to the dispatcher, thereby ensuring a quick and accurate response to emergencies.
What is ALI?
500
Code Red
What is emergency exists - emergency traffic only?
500
Military time for midnight.
What is 0000/2400hrs?
500
The purpose for utilizing either mapping system.
What is first responders ability to respond to calls in a timely manner?
500
The sectors located in the Downtown Area Command.
What is Adam, Baker, Charlie, and David?
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