Another biggie are transient hotels in bad parts of town even the police hesitate to go to!
I'm wondering how this volunteer relationship might change if we get hit in the next few months. Normally, we just act as extra eyes and ears. Additional training allows participation in taking reports of property crimes, non-injury accidents and directing traffic. Anything to free up the two sworn officers on duty at any given time. It's not unusual for me to have my wife running dispatch during her regular shift while I'm out in the COP patrol. We might pull the local ham operators in to help if things get bad. My wife and I both have ham licenses. She could double as emergency services net control on a ham frequency while dispatching police/fire/ambulance on the PD radio. We did that in San Diego at the Sheriff's Dept.