Pasadena to join Burbank/Glendale combined air unit?

[karldotcom]

Just an FYI.....I have been wondering why the Bur/Gln ships were in Pasadena alot....



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[KMA367]

Just an FYI.....I have been wondering why the Bur/Gln ships were in Pasadena alot....

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Is Pasadena PD still a participant in F.A.S.T?

 

[karldotcom]

I believe so....and I think they fly or house the LA IMPACT helicopter also

 

[rananthony04]

"PD 1" and "PD 2" is what I was always used to hearing in Pasadena. I would also hear PD 1 & 2 on West Covina's freq as well. Now that I think about it, I don't hear much of that callsign, additionally, I have been hearing Air 44 & 45 responding to calls in West Covina, Glendora, Monterey Park and other cities that were (once?) patrolled by PD 1 & 2. Anyone else notice this ?

 

[CharlesDom]

I noticed this as well. In addition to what you mentioned about Air 44 & 45, I've also heard them patrol El Monte, Baldwin Park and Covina. Cities south of that is patrolled by the sheriffs department.

Sometimes, but not very often I will hear PD 1 or 2 in the City of Industry area. I'm not 100 % sure what agency this is but sometimes I hear ground detectives and an air unit surveilling certain areas in the San Gabriel Valley. Sometimes they are discretely following suspects, the suspect has no idea of what's going on. Some of it has been drug related and some they were following felony suspects. Very interesting conversations to listen to.

"PD 1" and "PD 2" is what I was always used to hearing in Pasadena. I would also hear PD 1 & 2 on West Covina's freq as well. Now that I think about it, I don't hear much of that callsign, additionally, I have been hearing Air 44 & 45 responding to calls in West Covina, Glendora, Monterey Park and other cities that were (once?) patrolled by PD 1 & 2. Anyone else notice this ?

 

[landonjensen]

PD1 and PD2 belong to Pasadena PD... Air44 and Air45 also belong to Pasadena PD... I used to know quite a bit about the PPD Air program but a lot of it is skipping my mind late tonight. I will post more tomorrow. Theres a lot relating to time of day and their call signs.

 

[KMA367]

PD1 and PD2 belong to Pasadena PD... Air44 and Air45 also belong to Pasadena PD

Unless it's changed very recently, it looks like Air 44 (N171WC), Air 45 (N108DJ), and Air 77 (N968RM), all Robinson R-44's, belong to El Monte PD, and are part of the "Region 1 Air Support," partnered with Baldwin Park, Montebello, Irwindale, West Covina, Azusa and the Baldwin Park Unified School District Police.

http://www.empd.org/as.html
http://www.ci.el-monte.ca.us/others/pdf/MA20070611Air77Dedication.pdf

...sometimes I hear ground detectives and an air unit surveilling certain areas in the San Gabriel Valley. Sometimes they are discretely following suspects, the suspect has no idea of what's going on. Some of it has been drug related and some they were following felony suspects. Very interesting conversations to listen to.

In the 1970s and early 80s it was almost a daily occurrence to hear agencies like the FBI and LAPD do tails with their aircraft all over LA and surrounding counties, in the clear and occasionally repeated. Of course a plane or helo a couple thousand feet up could be received many miles away even on simplex.

LAPD stuff was mostly narcotics related, and the FBI would tail bank robbers as they drove around casing possible targets. Those occasionally got kind of exciting when the crooks would actually rob a bank while being watched, and find a heavily armed welcoming committee as they came running out. I don't remember ever hearing one of those end in gunfire, though it did happen now and then. In about 1982 a guy shot a La Habra policeman in a bank robbery, and the resulting pursuit ended when a San Bernardino County SO copter swooped down almost to ground level and the deputy/observer fired a round or two at the driver. He wasn't hit, IIRC, but decided it was time to surrender.

 

[Duster]

In about 1982 a guy shot a La Habra policeman in a bank robbery, and the resulting pursuit ended when a San Bernardino County SO copter swooped down almost to ground level and the deputy/observer fired a round or two at the driver. He wasn't hit, IIRC, but decided it was time to surrender.

Gotta love the San Bernardino County Air Force!!!!

When I worked for them, our copters were armed with either select-fire Mini-14's or MP5's. They had a reputation of ending pursuits by shooting the vehicles (this was before spike strips were widely available). They may have only done it once or twice, but the reputation stuck. I was also told that they once shot down an airplane from a copter (that's where the SBCAF name started). That was a choir practice war story, so I don't know if it was true, but it sure got re-told a lot.

David

 

[415dispatcher]

Burbank/Glendale air unit is awesome...they help us out in Simi Valley almost every time we have asked for them. I think they are always looking to expand their unit. So i wouldn't be surprised if they are joining with Pasadena.

 

[jrholm]

hmarnell got it right with Air 44 and El Monte PD info. They started with that bird back in the 90's and have expanded the fleet by going in cahoots with other local agencies. That's why you will hear them in the area between the 210 and 10 freeways. PD1 is still Pasadena and you will usually hear them helping out other foothill cities. Sheriff's birds go everywhere but with PD1 and Air 44 covering their areas, you usually won't hear a sheriff's bird in that area unless they are helping out Temple or Industry sheriff's stations. SkyKnight is still a contracted bird for Lakewood and Cerritos Stations and you will hear them quite a bit in the lower east end of the county.

 

[landonjensen]

PD1-Pasadena
PD2-FAST
PD3-Extra
PD4-Air unit on Ground

They operate on FAST net.... 156.3300 with a PL of 107.2

 

[KMA367]

They operate on FAST net.... 156.3300 with a PL of 107.2

156.33, eh? Is it by chance a repeater with 155.10 uplink? And is it patched (or patch-able) to UHF? That was San Marino PD's dispatch channel before they went UHF in the 1990s.

156.33 and Signal Hill PD's 156.39 were among the early "odd-ball" (I guess we'd call them something like splinter today) freqs plucked out years ago from between the former "MC" Maritime Coast Private frequencies, 156.275-157.025.

San Marino has had 156.33 at least back to the early 1960s, but I don't think Signal Hill's went back nearly that far; believe they had to share 155.85 with the late, lamented Compton PD for quite a while.

 

[landonjensen]

Correct. 156.33 is San Marinos old Dispatch channel.... I am not sure about patching or the uplink stuff...

 

[icis_monitor]

Correct. 156.33 is San Marinos old Dispatch channel.... I am not sure about patching or the uplink stuff...

The fast repeater is patched to ICIS on a talkgroup but still have a bunch of interference from the VHF part of the patch. i think it is part of pasadenas installing thier icis system soon.