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Permalink Reply by Todd Parker on June 13, 2008 at 12:35pm

The standard is all covered in N.I.M.S. it clearly states that all emergency response agencies should use plain english......i am even pretty sure that NIMS was a presidential directive by President Bush following 9/11 and is tied to federal grants programs and if your dept. is not NIMS compliant then they will not be considered for any grant money from the federal government.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on June 13, 2008 at 12:43pm

Our county is in the middle of changing over to plain English from the 10 codes. Here's the main reason:

Last year, one of our sheriff's deputies responded to a call for a possible unattended death, which turned out was located just into the next county. The deputy reported a 10-56, and for the next county to respond to the location.

After a period of time, the next county's haz-mat team showed up! Turns out that what we call a DOA in our county means a Haz-Mat incident next door. I suspect it may have been the dispatcher who relayed the information just by saying 10-56 to the neighbors.

So yeah, the 10 codes have got to go.

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Permalink Reply by Jammi Bruno on June 13, 2008 at 1:52pm

in washington county maryland we dont use 10 codes for fire/ ems, but police still do

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Permalink Reply by LT Lake on June 17, 2008 at 8:58am

no 10-codes all plane text. we dont even use department/truck numbers or officer numbers anymore. where i live we use to use a four diget number for radio traffic. the first two number where your department and the last two where the type of truck you are in or the officer and now its department and truck and rank.

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Permalink Reply by mark on June 17, 2008 at 9:32am

I Think That It Got Wrote Into A NFPA Standard For Radios That Your No Longer To Use 10 Codes

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Singletary on June 18, 2008 at 8:43pm

Our dispatch center phased out 10-codes a few years ago, some of the guys will still use them when transporting to the hospital, but not often.

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Permalink Reply by Katherine on June 18, 2008 at 9:17pm

My Dept still uses 10 codes, although we were suppose to phase them out at the begining of the year.

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Permalink Reply by Ming on June 18, 2008 at 10:42pm

well in pa we turned to nurmal talking over the radio some peopel let 10-4 (ok) slip but every one knows that one from using a c-b

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Permalink Reply by SHALL on June 21, 2008 at 4:51pm

We slip in and out of 10 codes...its just a habit i assume...but we use clear speak also...i believe they should have a central systme for all...mostly clear speak, becaseu what some ten codes mean here do not follow the same pattern as fire departments down state from us

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Permalink Reply by kenny on June 21, 2008 at 8:14pm

We are still using the 10-codes here to in south ga.

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