The $40 million project will replace equipment at dispatch centers and mountaintop relay sites and buy more than 2,000 new radios that will go in the car and on the hip of every trooper. It’s scheduled to be in place by Jan. 1 to comply with a federal mandate calling for reduced use of bandwidth by law enforcement to free up space on the radio spectrum for more users.
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State Patrol begins switch to $40m radio upgrade
The $40 million project will replace equipment at dispatch centers and mountaintop relay sites and buy more than 2,000 new radios that will go in the car and on the hip of every trooper. It’s scheduled to be in place by Jan. 1 to comply with a federal mandate calling for reduced use of bandwidth by law enforcement to free up space on the radio spectrum for more users.
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