So, I live in Johns Creek and they are apart of the Fulton County Public Safety P25 and they run most of their dispatch calls encrypted however some calls for some reason go in the clear unencrypted which I think is odd. But anyways I wrote a letter to the mayor asking what the reason is and asking if he could consider going unencrypted allowing scanners to listen in on what is happening in the city and the usual "go unencrypted argument". And so my email was forwarded to the City Manager (Ed Densmore) and this was his response,
"The City of Johns Creek moved to encryption as part of our joint interoperability with multiple neighboring agencies in 2017. This was done to make sure our First responders could communicate across jurisdictional lines in the event of an emergency. As our First responders are met with more challenging demands we also must balance the safety of our staff and coordination of resources as well."
In my opinion, this doesn't make much sense. But I am wondering what you guys thoughts on this are.
(I don't mean for this to be a rant just an opinion post asking for what people think about JCPDs response to my email. Also to see what the counter-argument is an just to get another opinion on the unencrypted argument.)
"The City of Johns Creek moved to encryption as part of our joint interoperability with multiple neighboring agencies in 2017. This was done to make sure our First responders could communicate across jurisdictional lines in the event of an emergency. As our First responders are met with more challenging demands we also must balance the safety of our staff and coordination of resources as well."
In my opinion, this doesn't make much sense. But I am wondering what you guys thoughts on this are.
(I don't mean for this to be a rant just an opinion post asking for what people think about JCPDs response to my email. Also to see what the counter-argument is an just to get another opinion on the unencrypted argument.)