Police Suggestion Toggle Dispatch Responsibilities

[northnortheast]

Suggestion Title: Toggle Dispatch Responsibilities
Suggestion Description: Add an extra tab to the Dispatcher Menu with a checkbox to enable/disable your responsibilities, including:

- Incident Control
- Panics/Life Alerts
- 911 Calls
- Open Comms (???)

Disabling any of these responsibilities means that they will behave as if there is no dispatcher on (incidents will come through as normal, etc)

Enabling any of these delegates the responsibility to you, as currently works when dispatcher is active (calls and incidents directed to you first)

Why should this be added?:
- Allows better cooperation and teamwork between dispatchers, i.e the primary communicator can uncheck ‘911 Calls’ leaving the other 3 dispatchers (common scenario) to handle 911
- Enables various levels of involvement from dispatch and creates some subclasses within the dispatch job. If a dispatcher is feeling burnt out, inexperienced, or just not up to the task of full radio control they could instead just operate as a 911 operator and camera reviewer - supplementing radio comms instead of controlling them.
- Lone dispatchers could temporarily allow open incident access when handling 911 calls or attending to other matters instead of causing a backlog
- Modular approach allows enabling/disabling of future dispatch additions (LOL)

What negatives could this have?:
- None; provided appropriate training and policies are put in place

What problem would this suggestion solve?: See ‘Why’ section

 

[TaliaKuznetsova]

Fully support this. Dispatch focusing on cameras and shootout management can get hectic, they are focused on keeping units alive and as such sometimes incidents go ages undispatched. Those units could of self dispatched if they noticed the pop up as not everyone checks f3 every 10 seconds.

 

[Clarky]

Full server dispatch is like playing fnaf night 5 or some shit

 

[Jack P]

W suggestion

 

[Dekkrior]

I think adding a little marker to the bottom left corner if radio protocol is added here could be helpful. While it could be seen as clutter, I don't think having a colored "RADIO PROTOCOL" that shows up when a dispatcher is in and activated it would be particularly problematic

It honestly also might not be a terrible idea to have a button on the dispatch computer that pings everyone currently transmitting on radio that radio protocol is in effect, similar to the current ping system. When people are breaking radio protocol, especially if there's more than one, you kinda can't tell that the dispatchers telling them to stop unless they literally yell. I feel like a quick ping all transmitting button would be an effective easy to help plug that hole

 

[Exnem]

I think adding a little marker to the bottom left corner if radio protocol is added here could be helpful. While it could be seen as clutter, I don't think having a colored "RADIO PROTOCOL" that shows up when a dispatcher is in and activated it would be particularly problematic

Could always add a notice above the radio icon that just says "Radio protocol active" in red text whenever you're broadcasting over the general radio. That way it won't always be on your hud, only when it's relevant.

 

[Dekkrior]

Could always add a notice above the radio icon that just says "Radio protocol active" in red text whenever you're broadcasting over the general radio. That way it won't always be on your hud, only when it's relevant.

I thought about that, but I honestly think a persistent message in the corner (similar to busy) would be better not just for making sure people actually see it and remember, but would be less intrusive than the top center of the screen

People are already used to there being a few things in that corner they're supposed to look at, or at least know exists. Adding something to it like this would be fairly seamless

 

[TaliaKuznetsova]

I thought about that, but I honestly think a persistent message in the corner (similar to busy) would be better not just for making sure people actually see it and remember, but would be less intrusive than the top center of the screen

People are already used to there being a few things in that corner they're supposed to look at, or at least know exists. Adding something to it like this would be fairly seamless

That does sound like a very nice implementation.