Shaaron Claridge, now retired, was a second-shift radiotelephone operator or police radio dispatcher at the Van Nuys Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Women were primarily desired as police radio dispatchers because LAPD Psychologists thought that women's voices would have a more soothing and calming effect over the airway. The idea was that should an officer (male) have been pinned down, or wounded, yet was still within radio contact, hearing the female dispatcher's tone would help keep the officer from panicking until back-up arrived. For a time from the late 1960s into the 1970s she was a voice actor credited with providing police dispatch voice work for Adam-12, Dragnet, and a few other shows for actor-director Jack Webb's production company Mark VII. Her husband was an LAPD motorcyle officer. A dispatch can be: A report sent to a newspaper by a correspondent. ... Parker Center-LAPDs Headquarters LAPD redirects here. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Adam-12 was a television program which ran from 1968 until 1975 on police officers, of the Rampart Division , veteran Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie Jim Reed (Kent McCord), and their sergeant, played by William Boyett. ... Dragnet opening frame from the 1967 version. ... The Los Angeles Police Department (usually known as the LAPD) is the police department of the City of Los Angeles, California. ...

Her voice work as the police dispatcher ("1-Adam-12, 1-Adam-12, see the man . . .") was featured in all but one or two episodes of that series. She also had a cameo appearance in the fifth season episode "Suspended."