I thought it was the other way around?
but anyway, LVMPD does not make decisions for either of them. Hooligan was implying that LVMPD decided to encrypt their radios and went out to get funding for animal control to do so.
I can think of six animal control agencies in Clark County.
Clark County Animal Control is on the 700MHZ P-25/II System, LV Animal Control (which is part of the City of Las Vegas Dept of Public Safety/Dept of Detention & Enforcement, as are the LV Marshals), is on SNACC. Henderson, Mesquite, Boulder City, & North Las Vegas Animal Control agencies are all a division of their respective PDs, and I assume utilize SNACC (HPD 'Paul' units are Animal Control), though I know most animal control dispatches are done via mobile data computer.
Kinda silly to think I was implying that LVMPD decided to encrypt CC Animal Control & that LVMPD obtained the grant to do it. I very clearly qualified the info that I was given:
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"A non radio-geek friend was at a (county commission?) meeting on 22 May where it was mentioned that LVMPD (sic) got a federal grant (about $50,000, from
https://www.bja.gov/jag/index.html ) to encrypt Clark County Animal Control radios. He made it sound like the grant was just awarded or received on 22 May, but CC Animal Control went full-time AES back in April or early May..."
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However, I am happy to infer my belief that LVMPD controls their 700MHz P-25/II system very tightly, so any Clark County radio tech "decisions" regarding CC users on the 700 system are approved by the system owner, which per licensing, is LVMPD, not CC or some municipal consortium.
Eventually, we'll see details for that grant.
As to why CC Animal Control would get a grant for encryption.
1. There's grant $$ available for such things.
2. Someone applied for it.
3. There's a good amount of semi-organized crime-related animal abuse taking place -- cockfighting specifically, to which the LVMPD Animal Cruelty Unit relies on support from Animal Control, as-well as Animal Control itself occasionally doing some sensitive investigations where communications security will enhance operational security.