Another update was given to Garland City Council last night.
June 19, 2017 Work Session - Garland, TX
You'll find at about 24 minutes in a complete and utter lie.
"If an officer is transporting a criminal to say Weatherford, will they be able to stay in constant contact with our dispatch?"
The answer was......."Absolutely."
And you'll hear several other stretches of the truth. As we all know here most of the features that are being touted are the same features touted back in the 1990's.
Encryption is touted as the solution to keeping officer whereabouts secret. When we all know anything that occurs is instantly tweeted by a witness already on scene. Not too mention P25 control channels are in the clear and as crowed source RDF application takes off, every user in the system will be easily plotable.
Interoperability is also magically solved with the transition to P25. Especially since the map shows cities that have switched to the "Motorola P25 Standard". Yep, you can't make this stuff up. Also goes on to say "all the Interoperability is preset in advance" U'm no....we'll be lucky if a Sachse Officer can talk to a Rowlett Officer on the same system.....much less a Garland Officer to a Richardson officer.
This started out as a hobby in my teens, and now as a middle aged adult it's just a reflection of my tax dollars going down the drain.