[Scan-DC] US Park PD?

[Doug Kitchener]

Last night (Saturday), I think around 2300, Montgomery County dispatched fire / rescue units to (I think) lock 5 at the C&O canal for a vehicle in the canal... it turned out to be a pickup truck that had been involved in robbery or burglary or something like that, and subsequent police chase, in Ffx county.  Vehicle turned out to be unoccupied by the time they got there (surprise!) and was upright... apparently the water was not that deep.

I was falling asleep and gathered most of this, but didn't listen too much after I heard all that (basically the initial report).  It was down in the Canal Road / Clara Barton Parkway / Cabin John Parkway area.

I _think_ I turned on the 800-meg scanner and I _think_ I put it on the MCP Bethesda talkgroup (I didn't have the US Park channels programmed into the radio but have just remedied that), but was wondering at the time who has jurisdiction there, MCP or US Park Police, or both... does anyone know?

I looked on RadioReference and only see four frequencies for US Park... but then another four for National Park Service... the NPS channels are tagged:

National Capital Parks - Central (US Park Police Ch. 5);
National Capital Parks - East;
George Washington Parkway; and
National Capital Parks - Central

Does anyone have a little more detailed insight about how these frequencies are used, and how the Park Police operate?  There doesn't seem to be any indication of different frequencies for parks / facilities / operations in MD, DC, or VA...

Tomorrow I'll check Alan's Capitol Hill Monitors site, I think at least some of this has been addressed there...

Any info would be of interest!  Thanks!


Doug




 


 		 	   		  
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