Thread: Police Expedition with an Identy crisis

A black and white Battalion chief truck?

What State was this in?

Illinois.

Fire Marshals in Texas are Police Officers as well, they are fully commissioned police and carry a side arm so they can investigate arson and make the arrest. It is not uncommon for a Fire Marshal here to also be a Battalion Chief in smaller communities. However I have never seen their vehicles being B&W, but I have seen some of the vehicles with "POLICE" on them.

I know of a fire marshal who made a traffic stop in an engine once.

Originally Posted by MEVS06

I know of a fire marshal who made a traffic stop in an engine once.

Epic. My hero!

I'm going to guess it's a Public Safety Dept. Much like am I going to, they run LE/Fire/EMS with cross trained staff.

Ding ding ding... we have a winner.. You dont see too many BC buggies with shotgun racks this side of Texas. The dont do EMS though they have dedicated Medics from a contract company. This is the same place with the locking long gun vaults in the engine and truck cab.

looks sweet, in the department where i worked they run a unit like that
it has both departments patches on it and its driven by the fire marshall

Originally Posted by Respondcode3

Ding ding ding... we have a winner.. You dont see too many BC buggies with shotgun racks this side of Texas. The dont do EMS though they have dedicated Medics from a contract company. This is the same place with the locking long gun vaults in the engine and truck cab.

Hell, I thought EVERY vehicle in Texas had a shotgun rack in it....

This truck is driven by a LT ,Captain or rarely a Sgt. It is the shift commander on the Fire side of the department.The mutual aid division only recognises the name Battalion chief in ICS. The officers working the fire side are on 24/48 shifts for 2 year periods then back into patrol rotation. Any officer can fill in on either side fire or patrol as necessary for overtime. This is one of the 4 my shop did. this is the only one with a lightbar and marked. All the others were plain black. All the lights are Red/Clear.

2 R/C predator II's in the grille.
2 R/C Sound off HAW LED's in the turn signal
Sound off HLF
1R /1C Par36 LED fog lights
Code 2 2700 R/C/R opticom R/C/R Rear all Red
Whelen Vertex R and C on running board
Code 3 XT4's R/C on Mirrors
R/C Predator II's in side window
Code3 narrowstick with Red on ends
2 R/C Predator II in back upper window
2 R/C surface mount ghost lights next to plate
2 R 2 C Sound off HAW LED's tail/reverse lights

2 CPI speakers 2 Dynamax speakers 2 rumbler speakers
Federal EQ2b siren
Code 3050 siren wired to FS rumbler on yelp wired to Horn ring

Kussmal auto eject with Kussmal charger

Havis sheid Expedtion console with custom switchplate.
3 Motorola CDM1250 2 VHF 1 UHF 1 Motorola XTL5000 ISP starcomm radio
GamberJohnson ULTP Laptop mount with Expedtion baseplate and 7 in upper
Big sky AR Rack overhead.

Lund storage box for Expedtion in back with custom command board and CDM1250 VHF fireground radio, Motorola XTS rack charger and Sound off litebox.

The unmarked had an extra set of sound off predator II's in the grille, opticom in the headlights, Sound off pinacle R/C/R in the front window the narrowstick was moved in the cargo hatch and no command board, XTS rack charger or starcom radio.

Mixed departments are pointless. NIce looking rig if you dump the references to fire.

Go to Florida, the fire trucks around Ft Lauderdale say Borward County Sheriffs Dept. on them

Originally Posted by 11b101abn

Mixed departments are pointless. NIce looking rig if you dump the references to fire.

Oh really? And you have some experience with them? Both places I've worked would be royally screwed with cross trained staff.

It has been a public safety department since the 50's it works for them. The town is 5000 people and daytime population is over 70,000 tons of hotels outside O'hare Airport with 2 large concert / sports arena's.

Originally Posted by MEVS06

I know of a fire marshal who made a traffic stop in an engine once.

Butler county, ks did this in a ford f350 brush truck. The Fire Police was in shorts and a tshirt with a glock 21, it was freaking epic.

Back when Maplewood MN had mostly police medics, I got pulled over by a patrol ambulance, for having a license plate light out.
Clarence

Originally Posted by Clarence H

Back when Maplewood MN had mostly police medics, I got pulled over by a patrol ambulance, for having a license plate light out.
Clarence

Some serious offense indeed...

There are a few Public Safety Officers here in Ohio. Not being from a dept that did both jobs we ended up having several hand me down PD cars that were driven from the chief on down thru the ranks. Unless it was a sound enough car with decent mileage it was left Black and White, with the graphics changed, If it was a good one, which was few and far between, then it got done up right, paint job and new equipment. Those days just ended with the last tax levy that passed now the chief has a new excursion and a new 3/4 ton pickup with plow and a 1 ton with a utility bed. Things are looking up.

Public Safety is a terrible systems to work under, more so for the fire side of the operation. I worked for a DPS as my first paid gig and currently volunteer with another. In both situations the department is run by a police chief who has to worry about a fire department. Minimal staffing on the fire side which often consists of a driver for the engine and road patrol coming to help. This eqautes to a bunch of cops who aren't worth a damn as firefighters (and don't want to be anyway) who take twice as long to get dressed and ready at a scene.

It is usually a money saving venture which ends up costing more in the long run. Concept should be outlawed.

They run it different. They have a fully staffed station with 9 guys and 2 paramedics at one station and 3 guys and 2 medics at at the other station. The Fire side is dedicated to running fire calls. The patrol is the enforcement and usually has 11-12 officers a shift. If a working fire comes in certain officers come in to the station and man the reserve or respond to the scene. The others cover the town for PD calls. The superintendant of PS oversees the whole Department, The patrol has a Dept supt. The fire has a dept supt. ( fire chief). EMS has its own coordinator who is a Contract employee. Medics work for a contract company who do no Firefighting but respond on fire calls.

Now on the other hand there is a department in the same area who is all 3 and runs PD ,FD and EMS calls. I have seen where the CSO has had to bring the ambulance to a call and meet the 2 officers at the call to provide care.