Philly Cops No Longer Responding To Fender Benders
Starting this coming Monday, Philadelphia Police officers will no longer be responding to minor fender benders.Motorists will have to fend for themselves and call the nearest police district on their own.
Philadelphia Police officials said they respond to nearly 70,000 auto accidents each year, adding about 10,000 do not require a police officer.
"We can save police response time and have officers available for more important, pressing issues," Lt. Frank Vanore explained.
Beginning Monday, accidents that involve vehicles that can be safely driven away and no injuries to report can now exchange information and file a police report on the phone.
"If there's an issue that you don't feel can be resolved without the officer there, the dispatcher will evaluate that on the phone when you call 911 and then he/she will have an officer respond," Lt. Vanore said.
Several other cities, including Chicago, are already utilizing the policy.
11 comments:
It will never work in DeKalb, people will always want an officer to respond. Everyone has a different story on who caused the accident. Just think of how many people will exchange information and it ends up being false on one of the parties.
What if it was your family or friend who was involved in an accident.
Why is DeKalb different? It works in such places as Chicago and now Philly, but it won't work in DeKalb?
When it comes to innovation, DeKalb always seem to have the petty answer.
Just look in the ruin of county you live in.
You may be right. People in DeKalb may not exchange information, but they sure as hell will exchange gunfire!
It sure would work in Dekalb, we just need to implement it. Its no different than with the false alarms we waste our time responding to. Again theres something Dr. Bell has let fall through the crack, when we were supposed to be charging for false alarms Dr. Bell forgot to implement a billing system (what a genius) just like he didnt know Recorders Court was not collecting fine. I say let the persons involved in an accident work it out with there insurance company's not the police, and if an officer needs to respond had out a SR13 and let it be a civil matter not a Revenue Collection for the County like it is now. Then the Officer can bill the Insurance company's for his testimony as an expert witness ($75.00) an hour since they will 10-99 us.
Lets start with who going discuss the accident with the drivers.
Then later when they call to make the report over the phone.
Then when the drivers dispute the each other accident versions.
Then they will complain and guess what, we will put hours into investigating and writing this report.
Now it becomes a waste of time for everyone.
Cause our pissed off Operators will automatically say, Complainant request PD to 59
Ok obviously some of the Anonymous writers are part of the Command Staff "We do it that way because we've always done it that way rookie". Unless it involves a fatality we don't go period. The insurance companies have investigators and accident re-constructionist. Let them figure it out. The only reason we go now is because thats what we did when Bobby (and further back) was in charge and if we were not concerned about the money generated from tickets then how come every time a poor beat officer doesn't issue a citation he gets his a@% handed to him.
Let the alarm company's respond to the alarms and the insurance company's respond to the accident sense.
Sounds like some of you are afraid you will have to do some real police work. And stop beating up on radio. The only reason most of you have a job as a cop is because your to stupid to work communications.
See I've just solved two of your biggest problems and insulted most of you in one post.
Wiseguy perhaps you don't understand. The PUBLIC will demand that we respond to their accidents. Just like they demand we respond to their alarms.
And I'll be honest, if I'm paying for police services and have a fender bender I expect my police department to show up. Try filing an insurance claim otherwise. The whole exchange information and file later becomes a huge problem later on. How can anyone determine fault if you don't see a scene. Now if Georgia becomes a no-fault state then that would change. But I'm guessing you don't even know what a no-fault state means. You'll find 95% of all departments respond to accidents.
SOMEBODY ALWAYS HATING ON RADIO..SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE THE ONE PISSED OFF, I AM NEITHER A RADIO OPERATOR,NOR DO I DATE OR MARRIED TO ONE,IT IS ALWAYS ONE BROTHER IN BLUE THAT HAS AN ISSUE W/OUR OPERATORS..THIS POST HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM,IT IS ABOUT ACCIDENTS... RADIO HATER GET OVER WHAT HAPPENED..
Caps. Shouting. Call your EAP.
Better yet, Dekalb can do what Atlanta did, outsource highway patrol to Georgia State Patrol. You will still get your beloved ticket money as GSP will refer the offender to the court of the jurisdiction and it will free up DKPD officers to respond to calls. However, don't expect the thousands of tickets daily as GSP is not going to send every trooper to Dekalb to make your money for you. For you officers who love traffic duty, you can work radar on the surface streets like APD has done.
To the radio operator posting in all caps: you're not fooling anyone. The content of your post and your pathetic grasp of the English language are a dead give away.
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