Hi new to the forum

Hi everyone

Just stumbled across this forum today so joined up. My names Harry im 23 and a current police employee in chch comms and also on the waiting list for college (aprx 18 mnths now)

any recruit applicants out there looking for an awesome stepping stone to college apply for comms!! its a great job and you learn heaps before you head off to college

All the best for the wait. And welcome.

Welcome aboard.

Hi and welcome aboard.

Hi Mate.

Hows your building holding together?

Redrooster wrote:Hi Mate.

Hows your building holding together?

Its all right - alot of rumours going around saying its on a lean etc but it looks ok to me - a fair bit of superficial damage to the interior like ceiling panels down and cracks in the expansion joints but building seems pretty solid. Its looking alot better than plenty of other buildings in town.

One of our boys has just come back from a stint down there; reckons the cracks are so big you can fit your hand in them, annd there's a spiral crack gong through the staircase.

Methinks you are using one eye only.

riksta wrote:One of our boys has just come back from a stint down there; reckons the cracks are so big you can fit your hand in them, annd there's a spiral crack gong through the staircase.

Methinks you are using one eye only.

Yea there are some pretty big cracks and some you prob could fit your fist in but they are in non structural walls. The building has non structural walls around the central structural pillars during the quake the pillars knock the non structural wall causing it to crack and plaster to come off (it looks bad but really its not) we in comms spend the most extended time in here at the mo and i am not worried about the building falling down

I heard that SCC was practically empty and that North Comms had pretty much taken over all the calltaking and dispatching, bar a couple of channels?

Sam wrote:I heard that SCC was practically empty and that North Comms had pretty much taken over all the calltaking

Central comms is getting it's fair share of south comms calls too - I feel sorry for the calltakers, they're getting slammed at the moment!

Apologies, you would be, my NCC source said SCC was practically empty was all.

I've just come back from inspecting EQ damaged properties (not inside the cordon) and to be honest the shakes were giving me the sh*ts. Don't know how you are living with it to be honest - and god knows how we are going to rebuild the place. I'll be back in a few weeks and don't really know if I want to!

Hey Mattz, sorry to go off topic here but are you any closer to college this year?

Oh and welcome Harry!

Kimmy - I'm still waiting. Sent ya a PM.

Now back to Harry

Sam wrote:I heard that SCC was practically empty and that North Comms had pretty much taken over all the calltaking and dispatching, bar a couple of channels?

yes, I have been dispatching the mighty Invercargill since the EQ. Went back to SCC Monday week.