Whats your departments dumbest/strangest policy?

[u/TigerBack56]

So i come from a military background and I know how stupid some policies can be. Our department has a few i can think of but I wanted to here from the community, what is your departments dumbest/strangest legitimate policy?

[u/Unwitnessed]

Not enough radios for every interior firefighter. Not really a policy, but pretty idiotic.

[u/Barabarabbit → u/Unwitnessed]

That is not good at all. I would not be comfortable going interior without a radio.

Radios are also not as expensive as other things like turnouts. If your department is skimping on radios, what else are they cutting costs on?

[u/Datsunoffroad → u/Barabarabbit]

Our radios are $5000, our turnouts are $2800

[u/Barabarabbit → u/Datsunoffroad]

Wow.

You clearly have way better radios than we do

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 → u/Datsunoffroad]

For that kind of money that radio had better be able to transmit my gps location, let me do my run reports, be able to transmit simultaneously on CB, AM, FM, Low band, mid band, mid band, high band, 800 mhz,  cellular, & satellite. It had better be able to scan all those bands, and automaticly pull me into any frequency transmitting.

And automatic know to let my wife I’m going to be home late and why.

That is a 5,000 dollar radio.

[u/Tasty_Explanation_20 → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

Been a while since you’ve priced radios huh?

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 → u/Tasty_Explanation_20]

Personally? Yea. 

But a lot of radios are a lot fancier then what it needed.

[u/Agreeable-Emu886 → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

There aren’t a lot of options especially if you’re looking to buy NFPA compliant radios

[u/fish1552 → u/Agreeable-Emu886]

I think a LOT of people don;'t know as much about their dept radios as the people who manage the program. That is one of my duties and there is so damn much I've learned over the last 10 yrs on it.
That little sticker on there showing it is Intrinsically Safe is important. That isn't on police radios as they will not be in the same environments as we are. Our biggest concern the few years I was in LE was not using the radios at a bomb scare.

[u/Fif112 → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

Our radios are $6500, Canadian, and can transmit gps.

They can, but the department just doesn’t use that function.

For… reasons?

[u/Impressive_Change593 → u/Fif112]

we have GPS but I've seen it get used once to get coordinates for a landing.

the reason it's turned off by default is it eating battery life insofar as I know.

[u/randomlyanonff → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

Motorola 6000xe. I was told the model number is the price 😂

[u/fish1552 → u/randomlyanonff]

Maybe they said that humorously, but our 6000XE and the 8000XE are around the same price.

[u/L_DUB_U → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

The Motorola's we use are 5k dual band 700/800 mhz. I have swam in my radio and it worked fine. We lost one off the side of a boat during flood, went out the next day after the water went down and it still worked. Expensive but worth it.

[u/fish1552 → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

Ours are about the same. We run the APX 6000XE from Motorola with standard batteries.

[u/Hopeful_Shelter_4218 → u/Datsunoffroad]

Same