Philadelphia Police Radio - Circuit Switched Communication Systems

Philadelphia Police Radio FAILS City Wide
We are going to watch this one closely. This will come down to one of three organizations taking the blame here. They are: Verizon Communications (Circuit Switched Radio Communications Provider), Motorola Corporation (The Manufacturer of the Radios) or the Philadelphia Police (End User of Each Service).

Here is the write up on KYW 1060's web site. This is a 24 news AM radio station based in Philadelphia, PA.

Philadelphia Police Radio System Fails
by KYW's Pat Loeb
Philadelphia police are investigating what went wrong on Tuesday when radio communications went out all over the city for about 40 minutes. Police say the radio communications system went down about 10pm. Communications were affected in districts across the city, though some citywide bands continued to operate. Officers were called back to headquarters and assigned to two-person units for the rest of the night.
Full service was restored shortly after 10:30pm.
Fraternal Order of Police president John McNesby was disturbed by the situation. He says the radio system has been a problem for the past four years:
"It's a disgrace, I mean, what we have here is a $52 million failure. They can turn around and give every excuse they want but the bottom line is when police need the radio system the most, it's not there."
Tuesday night's radio outage was the latest in a series of problems in recent years with the department's communications systems.
McNesby says it's essential that the department figure out why the radios went down and fix the problem:
"I'm hoping they revisit it but it's a $52 million system. Are they going to replace it with $52 million? I don't think so. What are we going to replace it with? Where do we go from here? When we need help out on the street, it's our only lifeline and it's not there."

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