I thought we would cover 10 codes and signal codes and practice radio communications. However, we spend 24 hours in comm. My experience in volunteering has been that the radio is one of the areas we volunteers shame ourselves the most. I've heard Rush Limbaugh segments that were shorter than some of the volunteer radio traffic. Hopefully they'll nip that in the bud in the comm.
Dispatchers are the unsung heroes in policing who deserve a lot of respect and courtesy.
They taught us in Academy that the dispatcher is essentially equivalent to the Police Chief when it comes to the pecking order while on duty. I took that to heart and lived by those guidelines.