MISSOURI STATE TROOP A ZONE MAPS

[scanrrman]

I live in independence, mo and troop A is located in lee's summit, mo. I hear dispatch call out calls in certain zones (i.e. Zone 5) Does anyone have any info or maps on where these zones are located/ their boundaries?

 

[BaLa]

http://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/MSHPWeb/DevelopersPages/TroopHeadquarters/TroopIndex.html

 

[scanrrman]

I appreciate that link but it's not exactly what I'm looking for. My question is this..... When listening to highway patrol troop A and there is a call put out for something like a CI driver. The dispatcher will call out like..... "Any trooper in ZONE 11, your radio #?" You can see that Troop A is made up of a few different counties, but they've got to have all this area broken up into smaller zones to patrol instead of a whole county or something. I want to know if anyone knows the highway patrol well enough to know these smaller zones and where their boundaries are. Do you understand my question? Thanks guys!!

 

[ksmoscanner]

When I asked I was told that they are usually a county. Would be interesting to note all the zones heard in Troop A and see if it matches the number of counties in Troop A.

The zone offices are often given out as a particular counties Sheriff's Office and since offenders charged by the Highway Patrol appear in the county court where the offense occured in so the zone being on a county basis could make sense.

Unfortunalty I have searched for a map for years and never came up with one.

Gregg in KC

 

[scanrrman]

From the link above, there are 13 counties in Troop A. Do you think that they are numbered from left to right and top to bottom. I think that that would be the most logical. I'll try to listen more closely and catalogue all the zones they call out and then location where the call is happening and see what I can come up with. But that will only work if the county zones are numbered logically like I said. It would be nice to talk to a trooper or someone of that nature who could tell me what I'd like to know but I've always been a little uneasy when talking to any law enforcement personnel about questions I have :? I don't want to stir up any trouble even though it's not my intention whatsoever. Everyone's got their own opinions about everything. I'll try to see what I can come up with. Thanks!

 

[Starcom21]

if not, try Alphabetical lowest number is A, etc.

 

[medic307]

I can't comment specifically on Troop A, but here in Troop B, most if not all zones are TWO counties. Zone 7 is Knox & Lewis counties, Zone 6 is Scotland and Clark. I think Zone 5 is Adair and Schuyler. One clue is if you know your locals radio number, listen for them to call in with "10-7 639" etc., where the "639" represents a specific location in the zone, such as the courthouse, local eateries, etc.

 

[scanrrman]

How'd you find that out about troop B? The only problem with listening for the "10-7" is that usually I can't hear the trooper, just dispatch. If a unit does go 10-7 and the dispatcher doesn't repeat exactly what he said, then I don't know exactly. Just one quick question (It might be stupid, but I'm not a whole lot experienced in the scanner field) Does it happen to everyone or is this just me. Like I said, when a trooper (or sheriff) isn't within 5 or so miles then I am unable to hear them. Is this just me not having some kind of repeater freq not programmed in or is this a normal thing when listening to public safety that converse over long range? I'm just trying to get a simple answer, I've been curious about this. It kinda of annoys me when just listening to one side of a conversation. Thanks as always.

 

[scanrrman]

It's exactly 12 noon and I just heard "263, Lee's Summit, 10-42" He sounded pretty close. Are you saying to figure it out by their unit #'s (i.e. 263)? 263 would mean he's assigned to a certain county?

 

[medic307]

I used to work for the Sheriff, that's how I found out 8) . Anyhow, not being able to hear cars more than 5 miles or so depends on several factors such as the system they're using, your antenna, or frequencies you don't have programmed. A decent outdoor antenna will go along way if you have all the frequencies down right.

It's exactly 12 noon and I just heard "263, Lee's Summit, 10-42" He sounded pretty close. Are you saying to figure it out by their unit #'s (i.e. 263)? 263 would mean he's assigned to a certain county?

Their unit number has nothing to do with their zone. What I was trying to say is that suppose 263 lived next door, so you know he works in your zone. Now let's suppose that you hear 263 go 10-7 at 740 (or 610, or 129). The point is that the location number (740, 610, 129) represents the zone that they're in. 740 is in zone 7, 610 in zone 6, 129 in zone 1 etc.

 

[scanrrman]

Oh i see now. It got me a little confused. On not being able to hear them past 5 or 10 miles, you think I don't have some frequencies? I'll see if I can't find any more. I use the database for most of my freq's but i guess it's pretty possible that some freq's aren't in there. Thanks for you help, I'm sure after awhile I can figure it out from what you've told me. Time and Patience. If I can come up with a map or something soon I'll post it. Thanks again

 

[BaLa]

Rolla doesn't seem to use zones..
no idea?

and 5 or 10 miles seems kind of short.



While it's not the Highway Patrol, I can pick up Lebanon PD from home sometimes.
Thats about 25-30 miles from here.

Oh and I have the same 'problem' not being able to hear the cars either.

I hear very little traffic from the cars/officers, but thats just because they (HP Rolla) covers a pretty decent size area, same as with the other HP Locations.
I would also guess geography plays a pretty big part in that as well.

 

[medic307]

I hear most of my HP car traffic on 456.475 (repeater). I occasionally hear them on the repeater input 42.xx but they are usually in town or very close.

I think your range will be quite limited unless you have a dedicated low band antenna, that is if you're trying to hear the input frequency.

 

[clayman]

If you live in Independence, you might try the link from the transmitter (by the stadiums) to Lees Summit. It's freq is 460.1875 P/L 162.2. If you are in SW Independence you might pick it up. To pick up the mobiles on lowband, you'll need an antenna outdoors or on your car. I have pretty good coverage with a Scantenna at home, and a VHF-Hi 5/8W mobile on my truck.
I got a ticket last year courtesy of the MHP in Jackson County, and I believe my ticket had zone 7 on it, but I think the zones do translate to counties (at least in Troop A) and officers are assigned to a county.

 

[scanrrman]

I've finally put together a map of Troop A from listening since this post was started. I don't know if it is totally right or not but my suspicious of them numbering 1-13 from county north to south and this is what I've got which it's not much considering its basic logic but some of the calls put out giving crossing highway locations seems to confirm at least a couple of the zones.

Buchanon County - Zone 1
Clinton County - Zone 2
Caldwell County - Zone 3
Platte County - Zone 4
Clay County - Zone 5
Ray County - Zone 6
Carroll County - Zone 7
Jackson County - Zone 8
Lafayette County - Zone 9
Saline County - Zone 10
Cass County - Zone 11
Johnson County - Zone 12
Pettis County - Zone 13

If you look at a map of these counties as they sit, this is a basic numbering from left to right top to bottom. I think it is how they look at it. Don't hold it against me. This is what I'm gonna run off of for now due to the fact that there's nothing I've seen that says otherwise. Anyone having any info on this, I would love to know.

 

[ksmoscanner]

I think Jackson County should be Zone 7.

I just heard dispatch put out an attention in Zone 7.... vehicle C&I west bound 50 HWY from Lone Jack.

Gregg in KC

 

[scanrrman]

I've heard them put out calls near Odessa in Lafayette County and they called it zone 9. I'm not sure about any of this. I wish somebody could come up with an answer. If it was numbered left to right that would make Jackson Co 8 but who knows!!!!!!!!!

 

[kb0nhx]

Troop A Zones

|Here is the information you seek|:

Zone 1----|Platte County
Zone 2----|Platte County
Zone 3----Clay County
Zone 4----Clay County
Zone 5----Ray |& Carroll Counties
Zone 6----Jackson County
Zone 7----|Jackson County
Zone 8----|Lafayette County
Zone 9----Lafayette County
Zone 10---Saline County
Zone 11---Cass County
Zone 12---|Johnson County
Zone 13---|Pettis County
Zone 14---Bates County
Zone 15---Henry County
Zone 16---Benton County

The counties with two zones, such as |Platte, Clay, Jackson and Lafayette are the "busiest" counties. Generally, one zone will work day shift and the other will work evenings and they switch off every two weeks or every month, depending on the zone.

 

[Starcom21]

I have added this listing to the statewide Department of Public Safety page. (to "Codes/Unit/Station Lists" near the bottom of the page)

The link is http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&action=codes&code_id=836

I'll do a map later on, unless someone beats me to it

Now, does anyone have the rest of the state?

 

[scanrrman]

Now that we know what zones are what #, does that mean that the troopers are numbered around these zones. Say for instance, Trooper #1160 is assigned to zone 11? Or, trooper 960 is assigned to zone 9? Would this be a correct assumption? Thanks!