yes...at my agency the night shift from 0300 till 0600, day shift from 0600 till 0800 and afternoon shift from 1700 till 1900 wea are ALONE!!!! small agency, have highway patrol.in the area..sometimes

We provide 24-7 coverage within the city, however, the county patrol and dentention deputies go home about midnight. So after midnight, I'm the only person on in the entire city and county. I fsomething happens in the county, dispatch has to call a deputy out, that is if the sheriff will authorize the overtime. And if something big happens in my city, I have to call someone out.

we have minimum 7 on our night team.....buti tell ya some nites its a ghost town....noone out...no radio traffic for hours....

YUPP...and most nights this is ACTUALLY true....

gvbpilot said:

Were also normally one man out. County is available for back up but it always seems they are on the other end of the county when we need help :-)

I can say yes, but I was. I'm a trooper working Operation Border Star on the Mexican Border. I am about 500 miles South of my normal duty station. We are assigned certain areas to work down here over a 5 county area that are known drug and alien smuggling route. I work from 6p-7a. The other night I was assigned to this FM road in the middle of fu*%#ng nowhere. I was bored, around 3 AM I turned down this dead end county road and drove for about 5 miles. Middle of some 50,000 acre rance, out of my element, AND ALONE! Closed back up was at the Border Patrol Checkpoint about 30 miles away. Found a rattlesnake crawling across the road, got out and took several pictures of it. Very desolate, kinda eerie!

On midnights we work alone also...and sometimes afternoons, like right now.

get the feeling? I know I'm the only one out there bout 4 days out of my week lol

We have two units on day and night, but one has the north half the county and one has south half could be 30 mins before help arrives. We have 4 cities but only one that has 24 hour coverage.

You are it. There is no one else. It is a continuing education in Policing 101. Back up is usually in bed or at best the next county and in my situation the next State. Yes you feel alone and isolated but i will have to give props to PL it does allow for some connection with the rest of the civilized law enforcement community.

We generally have 2 Troopers out for mids for 3 counties, but sometimes 1 will blow in sick and leave one guy covering all 3 counties. We have local S.O.'s in each county that will come running if we get in a bind! Thankful for that!

OH NO, is that dork back?

While many of us were in one man units and spread over the city if you called on the horn for help or the call was hot you knew that your brothers would bust their butt getting to you fast. I preferred my single unit be be honest but loved to see my brothers just happen to ride by as well.

bpd4 said:

My department is small and we only have 1 officer working at night, and there is only 2 county deputies working the entire county one on each side. If I get into anything it would take either deputy close to 20-30 minutes at times to get to you depending on how far out they are. Some nights its quiet but most of the time I stay busy, we have the Interstate 10 running through our city and the main road going through it the direct access route to Panama City Beach...So you can only imagine the traffic going through our city. Spring Breakers think it is a race track to the beach...until they get hit with the laser.

yes b/c i'm one of only a handful that go out and job it all the time