The JDIC system has the capability to transmit crime-related or emergency messages to one or more locations, broadcast groups, or to all Sheriff's stations and police departments on the network simultaneously. Members of this Department shall cause messages to be transmitted to their appropriate destination according to message classification.
JDIC messages are classified as follows:
- Point-to-Point Messages - these are single address messages directed specifically to another agency or to a particular Sheriff's station or facility. The message is of importance only to the agency addressed;
- Joint Messages - these are multiple address messages. They are directed to two or more agencies. They are of importance only to those agencies addressed. JDIC allows users to address a message from one up to a maximum of 20 agencies. The message must be readdressed and retransmitted if this maximum is exceeded; and
- JDIC Broadcast Group Messages - these are messages sent to specific agencies within particular JDIC broadcast groups. The message is of importance to all agencies within the broadcast group addressed.
Broadcast groups and agencies within each group are found in the JDIC system "HELP" broadcast group directory in "Help/4",
The following general instructions shall apply to all broadcast messages transmitted from any Sheriff's Department terminal:
- Messages shall be related to a crime, tactical alerts, an emergency, or administrative messages to outside agencies;
- Messages shall be brief and concise;
- Messages containing statute code violations shall specify both the statute code section as well as its correct legal description. Statute codes alone are not permitted; and
- Messages shall be directed only to those agencies/facilities which have a need to receive the information contained in the message.