"None of that juris-my-dick-tion crap!": Question for law enforcement Dopers.

[Fiveroptic]

@Loach

@Fiveroptic

I think I read once (probably here) that in an emergent situation requiring that the Fire Department be on scene, the FD runs the show, not the cops. The cops are there basically for crowd control and other ancillary duties. Is this true? It makes sense.

[…] Where I work it usually goes like this. The police are usually the first ones on the scene. All initial action will be taken by the police on the scene. Closing roads, assessing the scene, saving babies, the usual.

Gotcha. Sort of similar to throwing stock at Kroger on the midnight shift. I swear, if I had a dollar for every baby I saved from a burning aisle at 3AM in that darn store…