I was looking at the Denton County P25 and noticed that there are no dispatch TG for local PD on the Denton County system. Can an admin confirm if the data is missing? I remember seeing a section with local PD talk groups.
Thanks.
Look at the old, deprecated, system:
Denton County Trunking System Profile
www.radioreference.com
Among the talkgroups were Patrol 1, Patrol 2, & Patrol 3, all of them labeled as Dispatch.. I'm not in Denton, but I believe that Patrol 1 was used for the Sheriff's Office, with Patrol 2 used to dispatch the smaller cities that were on the system. At the time the system was marked as deprecated (no longer in use), there were no talkgroups labeled as "Small PD dispatch".
Now, look at the P25 Phase II system:
Denton County Regional Radio System Trunking System Profile
www.radioreference.com
You have talkgroups there as well for Patrol 1, Patrol 2, and Patrol 3. Patrols 1 & 2 are labeled with the service type for Law Dispatch, though Patrol 3 is labeled as "Law Tac".
However, I did pull up an old programming file for my semi-retired PSR500, dating back to 2012. TGID on the old system. 592, which was labeled as "Patrol 2" when the Type II system was shut down, at one point had been labeled as "Small PD Dispatch". That's how I programmed it back then, and I did not change the name to Patrol 2, since my reception on the old, as well as the new system, is marginal. I'm southwest of downtown Dallas.
Take the old TGID 592 & divide it by 16 to get the P25 Phase II TGID, and you get TGID 37, currently labeled as Patrol 2. So this is simply a labeling issue, in that you are not seeing a specific name for a talkgroup, but it is present.
