Little orange button? What does that do?

The emergency button on your radio that opens up the airwave to your panic and screams.

Cool, thanks.

Yup, our old motorola's had them aswell as our new airwaves. Once pressed, you get 10 seconds uninterrupted to repeatedly shout your location and give any important details about the situation.

But LOCATION is the key. Lost count of the number of times we get the panic alarm then get an officer telling us all the problems but not giving the location ... impossible for us to help and very worrying.

To be honest, more times than not it's a false alarm where officers have pressed it by accident.

You can see the "panic button" on the top of the GP340 below: (the speaker/microphones also have a panic button on them)



And below: pic of the panic button on a speaker/mic.

Topic split from the CO19 thread to keep that on topic

My orange button is quite dirty where I keep pressing it

You wuss

Hmmm a little fiddly thing it is too especially with my fat fingers

I would recommend that perhaps Firearms wouldn't be for you ...

Or you slagging off the guvnor/skipper. And other stuff you don't want to have heard.

Not a wuss, just making sure it works. Seem to have that sort of face for fights.

Pressed it a number of times by accident. 8 months in and no genuine need yet, happy with that. You shold hear my supervisor when I do. Usually goes something like "you ever hear about the boy who cried... " .. SAVE IT.

Thing is with airwave, you can't interupt anyone if you need to get in quickly.
The only waffle is the edible kind

We have a short cut on our airwaves, if you press 1 it sends an urgent callback and control then get back to you ASAP.

We also use - Press and hold 4 for a call back. If you want to do a check and the operators are busy do it an they will call you back! (NON urgent)

That sounds Ok, ours are pretty outdated sets now, nearly 3 years old.