The Ramsey County Emergency Communication Center (RCECC) sends and receives all administrative messages (teletypes) and is responsible to ensure all system guidelines for administrative messages are adhered to.
An administrative message is a free form message enabling users of the Criminal Justice Data Communications Network (CJDN) to communicate with one another. This type of message may be used to ask for information, assistance, or to respond to requests from other agencies. Administrative messages are used to transmit virtually any type of official criminal justice information not associated with a specific message type. An administrative message may be sent to any criminal justice agency within the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
An administrative message may also be used to request a statewide, regional, or all points message. The regional broadcast allows an agency to send an administrative message to a regional area or areas of the United States. Each state within the region(s) addressed will decide whether or not the message will be broadcast statewide.
Since much of the success of the system depends upon the quality of information exchanged between user agencies, guidelines have been developed that define “appropriate” administrative messages and will be adhered to when transmitting any type of administrative message.
Messages can be sent in a variety of formats to include statewide and/or national broadcasts, regional broadcasts, point to point, and agency to agency messages.
Administrative messages will be referred to as “teletypes”. If an officer would like RCECC personnel to send a teletype they will contact “data” by phone or send a message via fax or e-mail and provide the following information:
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Where to send it (i.e. specific agency, metro area, regional, statewide, etc.).
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Purpose of the teletype (i.e. check an address).
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Officer’s name and contact information.
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What the officer would like the receiving agency or agencies to do in the event they locate the subject of the teletype.
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In the event the teletype is in reference to a temporary situation (i.e. pick-up and hold) the officer must indicate in the body of the message the date/time the request expires.
In the event a teletype request fits guidelines for Keeping Our Police Safe (KOPS) messaging, the tele-communicator will send a KOPS message in lieu of a teletype.
The content of the administrative message is the responsibility of the officer making the request to the RCECC. The officer should verify the information is sent and removed when they ask the RCECC assistance on administrative messages.
Revised April 27, 2018