Police Callsign Types
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Call sign Format
With the exception of Counties Manukau and Bay of Plenty police districts, who operate a different system, unit call signs follow this format:
- Two characters: indicating the home station, beat area or district in which the unit primarily operates.
- A character indicating the unit type.
- Up to three characters which uniquely identify the unit.
In the Counties Manukau and Bay of Plenty police districts, unit call signs are five characters in length and follow this format:
- Two characters that identify the geographical area of responsibility.
- A letter and digit that identify the unit type.
- Unique identifier of the unit: Digit = supervisory/NCO level and above; Letter = others.
Examples:
- TNI3 Takapuna I-Car (general duties), late shift.
- SVM1 Auckland Motorways motorcycle unit, section 1.
- CMT8C Counties Manukau serious crash unit officer.
Home station
For a list of the home station codes, see Category:Police callsigns for a list of each region page with police callsigns.
Special callsigns
Occasionally non standard callsigns are used for special purposes.
Code | Description |
---|---|
*Zero Alpha | Armed Offender Squad incident control point |
*Northcomm Alpha | Shift Commander, Northern Comm Centre |
*Central Alpha | Shift Commander, Central Comm Centre |
*Southcomm Alpha | Shift Commander, Southern Comm Centre |
*DCC | District Command Center |
*AVSEC | Aviation Security Service pandemic response assistance team |
*ART | Armed Response Teams |
Unit type
Unit type codes (third letter) are as follows (Trial call sign allocation types also listed):
Code | Description |
---|---|
A | Commissioned officer (inspector) |
B | Beat Unit |
C | Crime Car (CIB patrol for initial attendance at serious crimes) |
CC | City Cameras |
CP | Community Watch/Patrol |
D | Dog patrol / Delta |
E | Uniform Enquiry unit |
F | Fingerprints/Photographs |
G | Logistics |
H | Highway Patrol traffic unit |
I | Incident Patrol (Uniform); also Public Safety Team (multi crew) |
J | Combined investigative unit; also Public Safety Team (single crew) |
K | Scene of Crime officer |
L | Police Launch; also Prisoner Transport |
M | Mounted patrol (Motorcycle/Bicycles) |
N | Senior Sergeant |
O | Community Constable |
P | Team Policing Unit |
Q | Single crewed unit attends historic/non urgent incidents |
R | Rural Patrol Unit; also Road Policing Unit |
S | Public Safety Team Sergeant (PST is the new name for General Duties) |
T | General Traffic unit |
U | Motorways Unit |
V | Traffic Sergeant |
W | Misc Traffic units (Speed Cameras/Commercial Vehicle investigation units) |
X | Misc CIB units |
Y | Youth Aid/Education |
Z | Diplomatic Protection Squad; also Community Patrols |