I saw the thread title and immediatly pictured Dan Rather having a mental breakdown.
Actually, just for the record, that was MRS. Virginslayer . . how the hell did she get my password? 
Um, Mrs. Virginslayer?
I’m NOT a cop. I’m a DISPATCHER. And all the reporters in the area should by now have cottoned on to the fact that WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DISSEMINATE ANY INFORMATION WHATSOEVER, except for the press releases that have been faxed to them already. In other words, it also does no good to call me to ask for further information on a press release you already have. Better paid minds than mine have decided that that’s all the info you’re gonna get. And we can’t be rude to them, because that might make the body of elected officials who have hired us on an at-will basis look bad. I have no objection to a reporter doing his/her job. What I object to is reporters disrupting my job morning after morning when they KNOW what the answer is going to be. Most mornings it’s no big deal, there’s usually not that much going on. But on mornings like yesterday, when all hell breaks loose in four different places, it’s a pain in the ass. If a reporter calls me and wants to speak to an officer, I’m more than happy to either patch them through or e-mail the message on. If they need a phone number for a sheriff’s office in Bumfuck, Egypt, I’ll look in my little law enforcement directory and give it to them with a smile. I’ll gladly do any task for anybody that it is in my power to do, because by and large, I enjoy my job. But they’re wasting their Sprint minutes calling me for news, and I would think they’d know that by now.
Bosda, you’ve got me pegged. You bring the marshmallows and I’ll pour the gas. 
Yes, I accidentally posted under my hubby’s name.
Now I understand. Yes, any reporter who hounds a dispatcher is out of line. Any rookie reporter should know that dispatchers can’t release details. They’d get in huge details-related trouble.
By the way I once called a dispatcher and asked “Is there anything going on?” and was told “NOTHING!”
I later found out they were busting up a mob ring next door to the police station.
I called back and asked him if he considered that “NOTHING”
and he replied “Oh I didn’t realize you were talking about that.”