Michigan Tac channel names

[scanmanmi]

This was supposed to be posted in the Michigan forum.

I've been listening to some Saginaw area event on 1642 which is listed as Fire Tac Ops 1 but I think they are calling it Tac 4. So my questions are; where do these names come from? Do the radios actually display that name? Could another agency use that same ID by another name?

 

[KevinC]

Moved.

 

[Ronaldski]

The names are 100% correct as are TBH all the mid-MI ones , I saw that too last night. They did a patch with Ops 1 and PTAC 4. Based on what I heard it was being used for traffic control after a high school football game and which afaik first time I've seen them do this patch.

 

[drdispatch]

This was supposed to be posted in the Michigan forum.

I've been listening to some Saginaw area event on 1642 which is listed as Fire Tac Ops 1 but I think they are calling it Tac 4. So my questions are; where do these names come from? Do the radios actually display that name? Could another agency use that same ID by another name?

To answer your other questions, the local agencies pick the names (to a degree) and the Radio Programming Unit programs the radios accordingly. The radios display the TG name, prefaced with the county number. Example: (where xx represents the county number) xxP911 would be sheriff's dispatch, xxCOM would be countywide common, xxSPEV1, xxSPEV2, etc. would be Special Event TG's. Those are "default" names which are standard across the system; what makes them different from one county to another is the county number. Other departments within the county are assigned numbers; For police, it's assigned by the state for UCR purposes; For fire, it's usually alphabetical.

 

[krokus]

To answer your other questions, the local agencies pick the names (to a degree) and the Radio Programming Unit programs the radios accordingly. The radios display the TG name, prefaced with the county number. Example: (where xx represents the county number) xxP911 would be sheriff's dispatch, xxCOM would be countywide common, xxSPEV1, xxSPEV2, etc. would be Special Event TG's. Those are "default" names which are standard across the system; what makes them different from one county to another is the county number. Other departments within the county are assigned numbers; For police, it's assigned by the state for UCR purposes; For fire, it's usually alphabetical.

Minor correction: The xxP911 would be the law enforcement dispatch, not necessarily a sheriff's office. The fire dispatch is xxF911, and EMS is xxM911.

Side note: Washtenaw County deviated from the SPEV & EMER paradigm, and uses InterOp for tactical, fireground, etc.

 

[drdispatch]

Minor correction: The xxP911 would be the law enforcement dispatch, not necessarily a sheriff's office. The fire dispatch is xxF911, and EMS is xxM911.

Correct. I should have been more specific. "xx" would represent the county number, and "xxx" would be a specific department. In Calhoun (13), 13P911 is sheriff's dispatch, 237P911 is Battle Creek PD dispatch. (237 is BC's department number in the crime reporting system. Those numbers are also used in the LEIN ORI's.) There's also a 13P237, though I'm not sure why.