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A Nextel Feature important to LEO's safety.
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I took the liberty of transfering this informative post from, another site in hopes of passing information which may be of aid for any law enforcement officer while engaged in the execution of his duties.
http://www.newsmax.com/ubb/Forum17/HTML/000038.html
"Just thought I'd share this incident with you. Maybe I'm just an idiot for not thinking of it but maybe I can save someone else similar problems.
We were searching a truck the other day. We found 65 pounds of marijuana in the sleeper.
Anyway, as we're continuing our search a Nextel cellular phone started ringing. The phone was in it's holster hanging on the dash. The phone stopped ringing. I figured it either went to voice mail or the caller hung up after not receiving an answer.
Later as we were trying to work out a controlled delivery I learned a very valuable lesson concerning Nextel phones.
The caller, who was in the Bronx, and who was the intended destination for the dope, did not hang up when the phone stopped ringing. The phone was set to auto-answer. Basically he heard everything we said while we were searching the inside of the truck. Just goes to show you, you learn something new every day. This could have had disasterous effects concerning officer safety at the time of the delivery. For those of you not familiar with Nextel phones, you can access the auto-answer feature by pressing * and then #. Then arrow over until you come to the auto-answer feature. Make sure it is set to off.
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In this day and age any information which can be shared, with the proper authorities hopefully, will help those doing a thankless job, my hat is off to those in uniform who day after day risk their lives to enforce the laws that seem to be violated by people who have no regard for others, and only live by the "ME" mentlity.
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
http://www.newsmax.com/ubb/Forum17/HTML/000038.html
"Just thought I'd share this incident with you. Maybe I'm just an idiot for not thinking of it but maybe I can save someone else similar problems.
We were searching a truck the other day. We found 65 pounds of marijuana in the sleeper.
Anyway, as we're continuing our search a Nextel cellular phone started ringing. The phone was in it's holster hanging on the dash. The phone stopped ringing. I figured it either went to voice mail or the caller hung up after not receiving an answer.
Later as we were trying to work out a controlled delivery I learned a very valuable lesson concerning Nextel phones.
The caller, who was in the Bronx, and who was the intended destination for the dope, did not hang up when the phone stopped ringing. The phone was set to auto-answer. Basically he heard everything we said while we were searching the inside of the truck. Just goes to show you, you learn something new every day. This could have had disasterous effects concerning officer safety at the time of the delivery. For those of you not familiar with Nextel phones, you can access the auto-answer feature by pressing * and then #. Then arrow over until you come to the auto-answer feature. Make sure it is set to off.
********************************************************************
In this day and age any information which can be shared, with the proper authorities hopefully, will help those doing a thankless job, my hat is off to those in uniform who day after day risk their lives to enforce the laws that seem to be violated by people who have no regard for others, and only live by the "ME" mentlity.
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry
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Thanks for the heads up. I was unaware of this issue. I'll pass it on.
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