The question for Lansing’s police officers and fire fighters is very simple. Are there still any dead spots in the emergency radio coverage for the whole city?
The reason for the question is a Lansing State Journal story today about how the city is trying to get reimbursed more than $400,000 for repairs to a county radio system that the city is part of and which resulted in dead spots in the city’s radio coverage.
The story says the deadspots were limited to the southwest part of the city. But, police officers would share at neighborhood meetings about unreliable service from the police radios in all parts of the city. They told about the necessity of carrying cellphones for those times when they didn’t work.
There were stories in the State Journal about how police officers had been reassigned to less desirable jobs for speaking without permission from their superiors.
So, what are the details? Are the radios fixed? Is the service good in the southside? Other parts of the city?
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From what I am hearing, there are still dead zones but it is not wise to publicize exactly where they are in order to protect the officers.
It’s all good – the work was done a while back, they are just trying to get reimbursement from the county. The radio system doesn’t have any dead zones like it did before.
Not 100% everywhere, of course, but not anything to worry about.
I appreciate the comments:
sosaidme–I haven’t heard anything about dead spots in many months, maybe even longer.
Rob–I appreciate your take on how this situation has improved.
For the safety of our officers and other emergency people, I feel this is an important one to pay attention to.