Quincy Police

[pj61]

There is a proposal for a new .$750,000 Public Safety Communication system included in a bond authorization before the Quincy City Council.
Does anyone have any info on what type of system that is being considered? Could they be going digital?

[garys]

The PD and FD received new portable and mobile equipment about three years ago under a UASI grant. This could be a request to updgrade the infrastructure, which would include new repeaters, receivers, consoles and other base station equipment. All of which would be digital capable, but that doesn't mean that they would go digital. It might well be related to the FCC mandate to migrate to narrow band equipment by 2013. QPD always seemed to wring every bit of usefulness out of their radio equipment, so the infrastructure might be pretty old.