Saw in the local newspaper sometime last week that Boardman PD is moving to marcs. Currently all police ops are encrypted. My question is are they likely to keep encryption on when they change systems or be able to be scammed? Anyone with insight?
Boardman police on Marcs
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If they’re encrypted now, they’ll almost certainly keep it that way.
Being a co-owner of their current system, why would Boardman be moving to MARCS?
It sounds like it's the whole system, via one of the partnership tiers.
Boardman to buy 51 police radios
BOARDMAN — The police department will have to acquire new radios to ensure a smooth transition to a state-run communications network. Last month, the Austintown-Boardman-Mahoning County Council of Governments unanimously approved a switch to the Multi-Agency Radio Communication System, known as...
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This is very similar to what the City of Warren did a few years ago. They joined Marcs and surrendered their radio sites to them.
As far as encryption, it’s almost a guarantee that all Mahoning County law enforcement agencies (with YSU PD possibly being the exception) that migrate to Marcs will continue to use full time encryption.
As far as encryption, it’s almost a guarantee that all Mahoning County law enforcement agencies (with YSU PD possibly being the exception) that migrate to Marcs will continue to use full time encryption.
Another one bites the dust. The 800lb gorilla must be happy….It sounds like it's the whole system, via one of the partnership tiers.
Boardman to buy 51 police radios
BOARDMAN — The police department will have to acquire new radios to ensure a smooth transition to a state-run communications network. Last month, the Austintown-Boardman-Mahoning County Council of Governments unanimously approved a switch to the Multi-Agency Radio Communication System, known as...
Yes, as noted in the fourth paragraph of the linked news story.
What's your reasoning for that?
My prediction is the Austintown/Boardman & Mahoning Co MARCS sites get merged into one new MARCS simulcast site:
MARCS Salem site will go away as it's co-located with a Austintown/Boardman simulcast sub-site on the WNEO TV tower. No need for both.
MARCS Lincoln Park is less than 3 miles from the Austintown/Boardman YSU sub-site, maybe they would keep both but with this short site spacing there's not a lot of benefit. I expect one or the other to remain as a simulcast sub-site but not both.
I wouldn't be surprised if MARCS keeps one of their existing towers; they've done this in other counties as well, generally keeping stuff like the state prisons on the state site.
