At the bottom of this post is a KRDO Channel-13 story about CSPD radio problems inside a local school. This is not new but is safety issue.
Last Friday we had some students report a girl come on campus with a handgun and TEU/SWAT eventually had to conduct a room to room search of the entire campus.
They soon found out their P25 800 MHz radios would not work in some areas inside the school and was an issue so they had to gather up and use a few Mitchell HS security handhelds (probably VHF conventional). That school is part of School District 11 which also uses P25 800 MHz radios and can switch to CSPD as well. So those radios were out and only the localized school radios worked (the ones the principal and asst principals use to communicate).
I have to say that CSPD did well with the situation from the beginning, since a CSPD area division (Falcon division) that does not cover that school had to come way out of their way to the school because Stetson Hills (which normally covers the school) had all available units trying to zero in on a stolen vehicle which the owner (who had left his keys inside) was also chasing down. Police have always had a difficult time finding a moving vehicle unless one of their own units is behind it already (due to time lag between caller to call taker to dispatcher to reporting party, even if it is OnStar). Their channel went to emergency radio comms only at about the time the school incident came in.
Also, the CSPD Sand Creek division (which has a border just a block or two to the south) was busy with several incidents and could only spare a traffic unit.
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Last Friday we had some students report a girl come on campus with a handgun and TEU/SWAT eventually had to conduct a room to room search of the entire campus.
They soon found out their P25 800 MHz radios would not work in some areas inside the school and was an issue so they had to gather up and use a few Mitchell HS security handhelds (probably VHF conventional). That school is part of School District 11 which also uses P25 800 MHz radios and can switch to CSPD as well. So those radios were out and only the localized school radios worked (the ones the principal and asst principals use to communicate).
I have to say that CSPD did well with the situation from the beginning, since a CSPD area division (Falcon division) that does not cover that school had to come way out of their way to the school because Stetson Hills (which normally covers the school) had all available units trying to zero in on a stolen vehicle which the owner (who had left his keys inside) was also chasing down. Police have always had a difficult time finding a moving vehicle unless one of their own units is behind it already (due to time lag between caller to call taker to dispatcher to reporting party, even if it is OnStar). Their channel went to emergency radio comms only at about the time the school incident came in.
Also, the CSPD Sand Creek division (which has a border just a block or two to the south) was busy with several incidents and could only spare a traffic unit.
Police investigate radio problems during gun scare at Mitchell High School | Latest News - Home
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