Why Aren't Public Safety Communications Already Interoperable?
- Incompatible and antiquated communications equipment;
- Limited and irregular funding;
- Extremely bad planning;
- Insufficient coordination;
- Fragmented radio spectrum.
Did you know
- That when second tower of the World Trade Center collapsed police received the radio message that the building was going to collapse, but firefighters never received that message because they use different radios
- First responders sometimes have to juggle as many as five different radios
- Police, EMS teams, and firefighters sometimes had to use runners to carry messages from one team to another because they do not have common radio systems
- Agencies cannot talk to one another or to another agencies in their neighboring cities, counties, or States?