10-82 is the lunch code.
We aren't guaranteed a lunch, or coffee for that matter. When it gets busy, you'll get pulled from your 82. When its not busy, you can get pulled from your 82. Usually, an officer will step up and shag the call for you. After all, your 82, while not guaranteed, is prized. Working 10 hours, longer if you had court, or worked shift O.T, requires fuel. Without dinner, officers, at best, get grumpy.
Now keep in mind, a lunch break when it happens at all, is fifteen minutes, maybe twenty.. Only when it is totally dead out does a lunch break mean a 30 minute chance to sit somewhere other than your car and actually taste your food. The radio is never off, it chatters in your ear as you chew and swallow. This is not a gourmet experience, heck its not even relaxing. It is time to refuel, and write paper if you're down. There are some restaurants who cater to officers. This does not mean free food (that is forbidden), this means Fast Food. As in the officer's order gets made first, and is on the table ASAP. And if you get called out before your food is ready, they will keep it warm for you until closing in case you can get back.
If someone really loves you, they will pack you a lunch with food that can be eaten as needed in the car. Hey RD, how many times have you eaten "lunch" on your way home at 2 am?
Posted by: h. | April 26, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I did also omit most Afternoons shift officers try to wait until Nights come out on the street around 2300 hours. At that time, nutritional offering run between Jack and The Border.
H,
About once every two weeks, I eat my lunch on my way home.
Posted by: RD | April 26, 2008 at 04:05 PM
And what a pleasure it was to call "82" without adding "83, available for district"
Didn't happen often, and obviously numbers are getting lower. Good luck.
Posted by: 0701-0104 | September 23, 2010 at 01:42 PM