Policy Text
University of California, San Francisco
Police Department General Orders
8.1 Communications: Administration
8.1.2 Communications Functions (Revised : 11/3/25 )
ECC personnel are responsible for:
A. Answering, evaluating and coordinating public safety response to emergency and non -
emergency calls for service for UCSF and its affiliates.
B. Monitoring, coordinating and responding to radio traffic generated by public safety
personnel.
C. Access to the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS),
National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) and National Crime
Information Center (NCIC), all of which provide vital communications links with state
and national law enforcem ent agencies, along with the ability to access automated files,
which is a necessity for criminal justice operations.
D. Monitoring panic alarms, fire alarms, freezer alarms , intrusion alarms, and building and
office perimeter alarms.
E. Making accurate and timely entries into the Department’s CAD system in order to record
all relevant information on calls for service or officer -initiated activity.
F. Making accurate and timely entries into various Department of Justice databases.
G. Dispatching officers in the field via radio and maintaining accurate unit status.
H. Receiv ing and transmit ting the above information by operating communication consoles,
two-way radio, telephone, various computers including both manual and computer -aided
dispatch systems, fire alarm and intrusion alarm equipment and other public safety 9 -1-1
equipment and applicat ions.