Stockbridge Village Police Comming Into Service Soon.Radios?

[i5adam8]

I live in the Stockbridge area ..and as many area residents already know,The Village has formed a Police Department.The projected date that they are supposed to take over Law Enforcement Operations is scheduled to be sometime in early February,as The Contract between The Village and,The Ingham County Sheriff's Department is supposed to Expire soon.
According to The local newspaper,The Village has already obtained most of The equipment for new the Police Department.Some of this includes..,Radars,Uniforms,Badges,Portable Breath Tests,Cameras and, Two Patrol cars.
Of course the local newspaper has also stated that they have obtained Radios.As for the projected timetable the Village has put for the Police Department to be "fully Operational"Their has been some question among locals about this being an accuate "start up"date for the Police Department.I remain Optimistic and, hopefull that The Village and,The Police Chief will be able to meet this Goal
I am curious about the Police Department's radios,as I am sure other people are.Because the Police Department is expected to be Operational early next month and,their is always the possibility that some unforeseen setbacks could arise and,cause delay in The "Start up Date".
Ingham County is set to have The new EDACS System up and,running very soon,and Stockbridge is set to have the Police Department up and,running soon also(maybe around the same time).I am curious about the Police Department and,the new radio system comming on line and,very Exited to see how the Transition will play out.
Just wondering if anyone knows what kind of radios the Police Department currently have and,will install in the Patrlol cars when They take to the streets?...

[Thunderbolt]

More than likely, they will have MA/COM radios that can operate in conventional mode or trunking. This would allow them to communicate on the current and future radio systems. Nevertheless, I expect that they will use either the Jaguar 725M or the lesser priced M7100IP for mobile radios. However, when it come to portables, I would suspect that the P7100IP would be the most logical choice.

73's

Ron

[i5adam8]

I am a Volunteer for the Lansing Police Department and so far,They havn't got any of the new radios,and none of the Supervisors have any idea as to when the will have get them...As for the County Sheriff's dept. I don't know what they have.I have heard somwhere,that the East Lansing Police Dept.Have some of the new portables that they are using in conventional mode,but I don't know if that is true,or just a rummor..

[1002]

they will start with the current 460 system as the Edacs is not expected now until April per the last Ing Co Fire chief' meeting this month

[scannerman5000]

from what I heard, LPD and LFD will be the last to get the new radios, since all they did was sit on their butts and not want to update their current failing system. my source is confidential.

[rdale]

"rom what I heard, LPD and LFD will be the last to get the new radios, since all they did was sit on their butts"

??? LFD is part of MPSCS. The original plan was to move all Lansing (and likely Ingham Co) public safety to MPSCS, but since the system is so bad in this area due to lack of towers those plans were nixed and a standalone system came to be.

The big delay on the current system has nothing to do with LPD/LFD - it is because the BWL tower was not properly surveyed, so when time came to put the antenna on it was discovered to be overloaded so a new tower had to be built.

- Rob

[i5adam8]

"[The big delay on the current system has nothing to do with LPD/LFD - it is because the BWL tower was not properly surveyed, so when time came to put the antenna on it was discovered to be overloaded so a new tower had to be built."


I believe they have got a tower transmitting data somewhere in the Dansville,or Leslie area so far,but I don't know if they have one in The City yet. -Rob,have you heard anything about exactly where the tower/towers are located in the south side of the county,I have been getting some really strong signals transmitting (what sounds like data)on one of the freqencies.I think it has been on 460.600 that I am hearing the strongest signal on.
I noticed that there has been a microwave dish and,an antenna placed on a tower located on the far southwest edge of the Village in Stockbridge (the tower is visible from the road on M-106,just south of M-52,on the west side of the road).The Dish,and Antenna were installed just about 2 months ago.Just wondering if anyone knows if that particular tower is part of the EDACS system?

[rdale]

The list is in another Ingham EDACS thread here, I'm not sure offhand. All towers are up now, but I'm not hearing anything in Lansing the last few days. They are still in very early testing.

[1002]

The cell tower on the south side of the village with the micro dish and antenna are indeed part of the EDACS System. Although there are several towers in the county, they all do not serve the same purpose. Some are for transmitting and others only recieve and send the signal back via microwave. The Stockbridge tower is a recieving tower. Stockbridge Fire and Stockbridge Ambulance serve into Waterloo Twp. located in Jackson Co. Hence the location of the tower on the south side of Ingham Co.

[Thunderbolt]

Originally Posted by 1002

The cell tower on the south side of the village with the micro dish and antenna are indeed part of the EDACS System. Although there are several towers in the county, they all do not serve the same purpose. Some are for transmitting and others only recieve and send the signal back via microwave. The Stockbridge tower is a recieving tower. Stockbridge Fire and Stockbridge Ambulance serve into Waterloo Twp. located in Jackson Co. Hence the location of the tower on the south side of Ingham Co.

Stockbridge Fire and Ambulance, use to serve the very northwest part of Washtenaw County, north of Boyce Road. I believe they still cover that area.

73's

Ron

[1002]

Stockbridge Fire no longer covers Lyndon Twp. (Wash Co.) That is covered by Chelsea Fire Authority.

[i5adam8]

Update on the progress of the Stockbridge Police Department....

The Stockbridge Town Crier Reported today that The Stockbridge Police Department is "Officially on Patrol".The newspaper reported that as of Monday,January 23 The Stockbridge Police department is on patrol.Police Chief Michael Ellis stated that The Ingham County Sheriff's Department will provide support in Emergencies,but The Police Dept."Will take over day-to-day Police activities"The contract with the Ingham County Sheriff's Dept. will end on Wednesday Jan.25.(tomorrow).So if everything goes as planned,The Village P.D. should be out on the road tomorrow.
Although the newspaper reported that the Police Dept.was "Officially on patrol" as of Monday,their has been no evidence that the S.P.D. is actually out on road patrol.Both today and,yesterday-the I.C.S.D Village contract deputy was in town making traffic stops,and conducting regular Law Enforcement duties.So I suspect that the P.D. will be taking over all primary Law Enforcement Operations tomorrow when the Sheriff's dept. contract expires.It should be very interesting for all of us that live in Stockbridge.I wonder what the new radio designator will be(I doubt that they will keep the 14 part,as that is the I.C.S.D. vehicle number_13-ADAM-14_) So more than likely it will be _13-ADAM-1 or 2 ect;

[wrr]

One of the unidentified FCC licenses is for the Village, at 457.225.

I can't see the village laying out the money to join the county-wide system at this time.

[1002]

Originally Posted by wrr

One of the unidentified FCC licenses is for the Village, at 457.225.

I can't see the village laying out the money to join the county-wide system at this time.

457.225 is a data link between the watertower and the pumphouse(s) that supply water to the village residents

[Thunderbolt]

Originally Posted by wrr

I can't see the village laying out the money to join the county-wide system at this time.

There going to have to layout some money for a 9-1-1 PSAP/dispatch center if that's the case. Moreover, it would be more cost effective for the county to dispatch the village in the long-run. Likewise, the county already dispatches the fire and ambulance calls for Stockbridge. I understand that this goes back to when Ingham County Fire was on 37.10 MHz.

73's

Ron

[1002]

37.10?? The current 911 center started dispatching Stockbridge Fire and the Ambulance in the early 80's. Prior to that calls were dialed to a local tx # directly to the FD or Ambl. Stockbridge has always been on freq. 154.415. Since '69 when the firemen bought a radio syst via fund raisers. This syst. replaced CB's. Call sign 19 A 4149. Remember that one ???? That's a long time ago........down memory lane...........

[i5adam8]

Does anyone on here remember back when Stockbridge had a Village Police Department the first time,I believe it was disbanded sometime in the early 80's or maybe 70's I can't be sure(It was before my time)but I just wanted to know if anyone can provide any info about the original force,before they started contracting with the sheriff's Dept.And what freqency they used,and who did the dispatching (County or,Local disp.) just a few facts about the old Village force?

[Thunderbolt]

Originally Posted by 1002

37.10?? The current 911 center started dispatching Stockbridge Fire and the Ambulance in the early 80's. Prior to that calls were dialed to a local tx # directly to the FD or Ambl. Stockbridge has always been on freq. 154.415. Since '69 when the firemen bought a radio syst via fund raisers. This syst. replaced CB's. Call sign 19 A 4149. Remember that one ???? That's a long time ago........down memory lane...........

That does go back many years ago. I was told by a former deputy sheriff from Ingham County who worked in dispatch, that most of the fire departments had a limited number of radios that operated on 37.10 MHz. However, due to problems with skip radio traffic, they moved onto 155.940 MHz around 1960 with the help of federal grants. I was under the impression that Stockbridge was a part of that old system.

73's

Ron

[wrr]

Has anyone managed to listen to Stockbridge Village PD? Are they being dispatched by Ingham County?

[scannerman5000]

Stockbridge is still dispatched by Ingham County. Their call letters began with '13' such as "13 Adam 1", etc. Im sure they have their own local frequencies as well.