Unit Order #25 - Call Signs For Reserve Patrol and Montrose Search and Rescue

The Crescenta Valley Station has an extensive Search and Rescue program, as well as a Uniform Reserve Patrol Deputy program.  To ensure that the Montrose Search and Rescue operation is clearly identified as a separate operation from the Reserve Patrol function, it is the policy of the Crescenta Valley Station that the following call signs be used with regard to their functions.

All Montrose Search and Rescue call signs shall only be “120" units with an “R’ identifier. i.e. 120R, 120R1, 120R2, etc., up to 120R8.  The only exception during a search and rescue operation are the call signs for the Station’s Reserve Coordinator (sergeant) and the Assistant Reserve Coordinator (deputy); their call signs will be 120PS and 120P, respectively.

All Uniformed Reserves working a patrol assignment shall use the call signs of 122R, 122R1, 123R and 123R1. 

This revised unit order supercedes the previous order which designated a “B” identifier for this function.