Mental Pluff Mud

The police department in cash-strapped Vallejo, Calif., may have found a way to save a little money.

The Police Department is now using a transcription service based in Tennessee — Nashville-McLintock Transcription and Consulting Services — to write up its police reports.

The reports are dictated into a digital audio file then sent via a secure connection to Nashville-McClintock, where retired law-enforcement officials write them up.

The practice is less expensive than hiring new personnel and could possibly elicit more details from officers who might otherwise keep it brief if they had to do the typing themselves.

I well appreciate the practical sense this makes, but it *still* made me *laugh*.

Oh! How I wish we had this when I was a patrol officer.

Is there anyone who doesn’t think about the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami when reading/hearing the word “tsunami”?

Keeping my fingers crossed that this is a minor threat.