[Scan-DC] Police radios gone missing

[Alan Henney]

Newsday (New York)

January 16, 2019 Wednesday
NASSAU EDITION

Police radios gone missing

BYLINE: Newsday Staff/

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 15

LENGTH: 180 words

Several portable officers' radios disappeared from the Nassau County Police
Department in the middle of last year, and investigators have been trying
to track them down, authorities said.

The department's Internal Affairs section has started a probe, Nassau
Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder told News 12 Long Island, and the
district attorney's office will also join if "corruption issues" crop up.

"There are current ongoing investigations to recover them, and we think
we're going to get them all back," Ryder said in the interview.

Nassau police uses a radio frequency that can no longer be heard on
scanners available to the public.

The commissioner said the portable radios are encrypted and can be
disabled. "We can physically shut them down, but we need the radio back,"
he said. "That's a $4,000 radio."

The head of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association told News 12 he
is "very, very concerned" about active radios falling into the hands of
criminals.

"They can know where we are and where we aren't," PBA president James
McDermott said. "Not a good situation at all."