Your Identification System / WAKE UP #2

[wonderwoman]

What types of ID do you have? Do you have Badges with assigned numbers?

How are you identified to the criminal population? Numbers? Name Tags? Nothing?

[gazza]

we have an id badgewith name and rank on it ww also cap badge with our number but it is only worn here on rare occasions spose the thing here in oz prisons are we are very small in crim numbers comparedto you guys and most old heads know us anyway, when visitors come in we have our id on cept me cause i dont know them and dont want em to know me if we are reported by a visitor the name smith surfaces a lot ha ha be good ww catch you later http://www.officer.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Darkwulfe]

As Detention Officers we were issued badges and ID cards. No numbers were assigned to officers. Everyone went by Last name. An officer was known as Officer Smith for example, and inmate was Mr. Smith. Inmates had booking numbers but they were only used for paperwork. Being a small facility it was very easy to tell who was who, not very many names and faces to remember.

[wonderwoman]

Thanks Gazza, I was running out of topic ideas... can you tell??????

Darkwulfe,
Be better if everyone went by the Last name Smith. In Ontario (prov.) everybody has a number... no names are used!!
And...... how is the new job going????

[Tackleberry]

Pretty offical looking ID cards with our picture in uniform, name, rank, badge and employee number, dept address and phone number, County seal and barcoded bottom like a drivers license. Badges are issued and numbered. Extra badges are $50.00! What a rip!

Tac
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[Darkwulfe]

The new job is going great WW. Thanks for asking. Today is day 4, loving everyminute of it. I don't miss the county jail one bit.

[JKT]

We wear a 5-point star badge (not old, Classic)

We also wear a metal name tag with first initial and last name.

We are assigned a number to be used on the radio and on reports as a badge number, but there is no number on the badge itself.

Now, the inmates have a plastic wristband. It contains their name, ID#, DOB, a bar code (which we don't have the readers for) and a photograph. The color of the wristband indicated the inmates' classification; IE: medium, maximum, minimum.

[me again]

We're issued an ID number (aka a badge number) which stays with us for the duration of our employment. It becomes your number and nobody else can use it on the radio or in the computer. The computer recoginizes the number as your identity (it is you to the computer).