“They sure as heck ARE LEO and you ignore them at your own peril.”
I don’t think they are law enforcement, and they most probably aren’t officers. They didn’t give an order, and I don’t think it would have had any legal force if they had. Since when can cops, assuming for argument’s sake that they were cops, order you to stop following someone over the phone? Anyway, finally I’m still waiting for evidence that he ignored the order, pretending for the moment it was an order.
A friend of mine works for WSP, I know of what I speak. And it has been confirmed to me by other FReepers that it is the same in their state.
Police dispatch IS, in many places, officially, legally, statutorily, an LEO position, with all the force and effect of law behind them.