Increased MDTA police area patroled?

[hill]

Today when I was on the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) outter loop between US Route 40 and I-95 and there one of the MDTAP officers working speed enforcement with laser. The time of this was around 11 AM.

The Baltimore Beltway has always been patrolled by MSP and the Golden Ring Barrack is less than 2 miles from the location this officer was working

My main question is why are they operating farther from the toll areas than before? In the past they kind of stayed in their lane and only patrolled the areas near tolls facilities.

Going forward if they want to work other highways it's time for the State to disband the MDTAP and fold them into the MSP. That will strengthen the MSP and help with any shortages of Troopers they may have. This will help by cutting upper command staff in MDTAP.

 

[maus92]

MDTA "owns" I-95 from Baltimore to the Delaware line. MSP is contracted by the MDTA to provide police services along portions of that route, however perhaps this is changing. MDTA and MSP have incompatible contract, salary, and retirement programs thus are unlikely to merge.

 

[jkahn]

I have seen MDTA in he past on I95 North from the tunnels up to where the high speed lanes end, usually in the high speed toll lanes.
Maybe it was slow on the tunnel thru-ways and MDTA needed more revenue!

Do they use anything other than their FiRST talkgroups for comms?

 

[maus92]

Other than cell phones, they operate only on FIRST. Theoretically, they could operate natively on neighboring systems and tgs, but I've never heard them do that.

 

[Dispatcher308]

MDTA "owns" I-95 from Baltimore to the Delaware line. MSP is contracted by the MDTA to provide police services along portions of that route, however perhaps this is changing. MDTA and MSP have incompatible contract, salary, and retirement programs thus are unlikely to merge.

State Law may say they cant merge either! MDTA owns a lot of State roadways that people are unaware of, because they had a small force in the past they as you said in your post contracted other law enforcement agencies, now that their agency is expanding and growing, so are their responsibilities on their roadways.

 

[Chris52]

It’s a growing force, their numbers are going up and they are allowed and have been hiring more. More so lateral officers. You will see this in Charles County as well. They have moved up further and further on Rt. 301