"Communications is a life or death situation"

Public safety personnel concerned about digital radio transition



"We don't want to be on the news for having a line of duty death," Altman
said. "That's nothing anybody wants, and the radio system is a big key with
preventing that."




Maybe if our Command Staff at CPD actually carried radios then they would know they don't work and would do like the Philadelphia Chief. That means they would actually have to come out of the palace.



15th failure of the Philadelphia digital police radio system
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eloDbosA ... re=related



The radio issue was at its worse level last night. Transmitting issues on a Agg. Assault/Shooting, Domestic Battery involving a knife and an assortment of Robbery calls with a firearm. We can not stand by why Command Staff drags their feet with the decision to fix this issue. We responded to potential life threatening situations that could have ended badly for our troops.


"In some cases, public-safety executives issue gag orders that bar employees and contractors from discussing system shortcomings. Employees face disciplinary action for talking about the communications systems that they rely on for personal safety."


public safety radio system problems.

http://blog.tcomeng.com/index.php/2008/ ... -failures/





http://Philadelphia - July crash of ...acement (2002)

Hasbro Toys called they want their radio back..... This Suks..... :evil:

Hey Sid if you spent has much time and money on the radios as you did that stupid t.v. show of yours it might actually work. Never a problem with the show transmitting, to bad no one watches it, what a waste of money.... However I did like the the "Clamp the Amp." section good job Stiffy....

CPD is the only city in Pinellas County that is independent of the Pinellas County Motorola radio system. The sytem CPD uses is a POS and everybody knows it. Probably would be a lot easier to communicate with other agencies as well as yourselves if you all got on board with the rest of the county instead of trying beating a dead horse with your behind the times EDACS system. When one of you gets shot to death becaue PCSO or Largo chased a armed subject in to your city and u cant talk to them at a turn of the dial than I bet something will get done about your radio woes. Wouldnt it be nice to talk to PCSO, FD, Largo and the whole rest of the county. It's pretty sad when even campus police is on the system.

[Lenny Briscoe]

Yea, but we are going to have a horse path, and we own the BLUE CHIP. We also got over $800,000.00 worth of palm trees. Oh, I forgot we got a broken down old movie house and Ms. Lokey's store. What do you want EVERYTHING?????

Well if enough officers got together with represenitives from the FOP and went to the city commision im sure the point could be stressed enough that the current CPD system sucks and that the County system is the way to go for interagency communications. Why not put CPD on the county system with everyone else. That way in times of disaster and multi jusristiction incidents you can talk to everyone from PCSO to FD to PSTA to Parks. Keep your current sytem for use by Public works and put CPD on the big boy system.

The issue was that we were going from analog to digital. We would have been the first agency with this being used in the Pinellas County, but unfortunately testing was limited and it had to be pulled off line and put back to analog until such time as the issues with digital can be made safe. PCSO or any other agency in this area is not digital on this side, and the issues we experienced are the same ones that are being experienced around the Country. It is very new technology and the system still needs to be worked out.

I understand the situation about going digital. Actually The county motorola system has had digital talkgroups which have been used by PCSO CID for a few years now. I mean seriously though rather than invest all this money in a radio system that is useless and imcompatibale wth every other agency in the county, Clearwater should have just bought Motorola radios and could have been on board a countywide system that has been working for almost 20 years. Clearwater however choses to be independant of everyone else. The bottom line is your EDACS system sucks and the sad part is the city got suckered in to selling the system under a contract to a private company. All those radios you just bout would be great if you could talk to other people other than yourselves and they city garbage trucks. you should tune to the solid waste group and have a garbage truck come pick up all those radios and take them to the dump. And besides what is so secret that CPD needs digital? All CPD does is work traffic at Gulf to Bay and 19 and respond 20 units code 3 to domestics and car accidnets that inconvienence the public. Motorola is the way to go. you should push the city to get on the county system so everyone in the county can have total interoperbilty at the turn of a dial without a patch that sounds like shit. One day one of your officers is going to get it because of your ill equipped radio system... You should listen to the county system and hear how good the coverage is both analog and digital and listen to everyone who uses it.

Yea the radio is great at PCSO, but I guess those (50) deputies you laid off last year don't care about it, since they had to go to Hillsborough to keep a job. I hate to see what is coming for the rest of you after your new budget cuts, but you're right those radios will sound great in storage...

well maybe PCSO could loan those 50 radios to CPD so they can see the difference between night and day and maybe than the officers would realize they are 20 years behind the times and the only reason they use EDACS is because the higher ups got a kickback from selling they system to a private company. The system they are on now isnt even P25 compliant which is the current standard by APCO for public safety. Cmon guys is it really worth risking the lives of those dedicated to protecting the community?