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If they are a real public safety agency, there's really no good reason other than they may have zero radio technical knowledge. Sometimes small agencies will rely on a member or some other random person to tell them what to do with radios. Sometimes that person was just really good at watching YouTube videos, or surfing hobby radio sites. They sometimes assume that makes them a "radio expert" and there's no one to correct them.
If it's not a real public safety agency, then they may not have legal access to anything else. There are contract medics for business/industrial, or the whacker groups, that wouldn't have access to anything other than MURS, GMRS or FRS.
No.
Especially if they are using MURS, FRS, or GMRS. They have to share the frequencies like everyone else. Hopefully they'd be smart enough to set some sort of coded squelch.
Heck, even if they had legit public safety pool channels, there are plenty of whackers out there that see no issue what so ever with loading their E-Bay Motorola's, amateur radios, or CCR's with public safety frequencies that they are convinced they can transmit on any time they feel frightened. Numerous FCC enforcement actions for this sort of bull****ery.
Nope, sure doesn't. But there's far too many people that assume that if Amazon sells it, it's OK to use. The thought process generally stops right there.
And far too many people that think that bypassing the FCC rules is totally acceptable.
