[ScanIndiana] Greenwood PD Digital Radios

[Dave Diehl]

> very often).  The infrastructure for the enhanced 9-1-1 system in this
county
> is owned or paid for by a county agency called the Emergency Telephone
System
> Board.  Not only do they own or pay for that telephone infrastructure, but
> they also own the radio infrastructure to get the 9-1-1 calls to the
> emergency responders.

Pretty much identical here only our is owned by Steuben County
Communications...  The phone tax is a bit less but operates on the same
theory...  The trunk lines from the cell callers are rolled into the
communications center where its triangulated and determines within about 50
feel of where the call could have (should have) originated...  Last month
the SprintPCS lines failed to redirect calls properly...  I found out by
assisting them with my personal phone that the call to 911 goes from Angola,
to Denver Colorado, then to Seattle Washington , where its redirected back
to the closest 911 center that is not busy near the calls origin...  Its all
done in nanoseconds...  I had the first 2 of 6 calls that went to the
surrounding counties (try explaining that you were testing)...  After about
3 hours of test calls, it was determined that the nice new cell tower 3
miles north, was not mapped in the Sprint system as it should have been...
Wrong county or something...  Those calls went 30 some miles to the county
south...  So the point here is, just because each county or location owns
the latest and greatest, and sometimes the most expensive, doesn't mean its
bug proof on the carriers end...  Not only do you get an expensive, non
functional radio or phone system, you have no way of testing all of your
links without having a real failure...

Life would be great if there was a blowhorn on every street corner and
central dispatch...  Or at least it would solve some problems and get a fast
response...