Saskatchewan P.R.T. scanning
The Protection and Response Team (PRT) launched August 2017.
The PRT consists of 258 armed officers who will have arrest and detention powers, including municipal police, RCMP, Ministry of Highways Vehicle Enforcement Officers (H.T.P.) and Ministry of Environment Conservation Officers (C.O.'s).
The PRT has made significant progress, including:
The Launch of a dedicated Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods unit in Prince Albert.
Creation of Intervention Circles that use the Saskatchewan Hub framework in Muskoday First Nation and Ochapowace First Nation.
Purchase of Automatic License Plate Recognition Technology for PRT officers.
The addition of three policing positions to the province’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) in Prince Albert, Regina and Saskatoon to focus on guns, gangs and drugs.
Reassignment of 10 RCMP positions to provide relief to detachments experiencing staff shortages.
Completion of Saskatchewan’s first Rural Crime Innovation Challenge, which has led to the development of an app-based tracking system to alert land owners about irregular activity related to their property.
120 of the new team will be RCMP and municipal police officers — including 60 presently working with Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan, and another 30 police roles that will be re-purposed. Highway commercial vehicle enforcement officers (H.T.P.) will make up another 40, and 98 will be on duty Ministry of Environment conservation officers of the province's total of 140 C.O.'s.
H.T.P officers will be armed and will — along with conservation officers who already carry guns — be able to respond to calls and make arrests.
I have not heard H.T.P officers on INOP 1. They must be upgrading their equipment and training for the firearms use at this time.
The PRT will focus on improving response times to property crimes; enhancing uniform visibility in rural areas; increasing enforcement of drug trafficking on highways; and reducing serious collisions.
I think that the formation of the PRT perhaps came as a result of the farmer Gerald Stanley's shooting of Colten Boushie and some other events.
I have been hearing lots of PRT action on Talkgroup 151 INOP 1.
Yorkton Traffic Services units and Conservation Officers for B.O.L.O
RCMP Regina T.S. and Moose Jaw C.O.s for # 1 Highway closure for a blizzard.
Nipawin / Melfort C.O.s and RCMP at location of the Humboldt Bronco's bus M.V.C.
Spiritwood C.O.s and RCMP pursuit following a B.O.L.O.
Candle Lake and Christopher Lake C.O.s and RCMP coordinate forest fire fighting and evacuation's.
And much more that I can not post here, all in the open and unencrypted. Other RR members are telling me about INOP use.
All PRT units that I have seen in use are equipped with video cameras all around the roof of their units for a 360 degree view video recording.
Local RCMP Traffic Services and Conservation Officer's units recently equipped with 360 video camera systems and license plate readers.
I see that INOP 1 is being monitored by local C.O.'s the EMS and FD.
I started seeing RCMP Traffic Services units on super grid gravel roads last summer and thought that's unusual.
If you are not hearing any action on TG 151 it is because no user is affiliated to that TG on the tower site you are monitoring.
All PPSTN radios have the INOP RAMP / ZONE in them.
If your local F.D. / E.M.S. / RCMP / SASKPOWER has a radio on INOP 1 you will hear lots of action.
Your monitoring ability may be enhanced by:
Asking your local volunteer fire department to turn on and tune one of their radios to INOP 1.
Becoming a volunteer Fire Fighter or First Responder in your area.
Using Unitrunker / Pro96com to view site activity to get a greater understanding of users affiliated / logging onto and using your local site.
While I type this to post later on RR, I can see RCMP RID 2211372 Regina GIS communicating with RCMP RID 2213891 Saskatoon GIS on TG 49 TAC # 6. Both are on my local site. A Bust coming in town soon ?
I also see a login on TG 6133 RID 2264707. Who is this now ?
RCMP RID 2214492 is calling on INOP # 4.
I maybe partially deaf but I can still see what is going on. It's better to be deaf than blind. Encryption is not the solution.
Encryption works very well when it is enabled by each user on the system.
I am hearing users that think they are secure but are not. There are secure zones / ramps and open zones / ramps all with the same Talkgroups loaded into the radios.
It's all too easy to be off encryption and be unaware of it.We did not give up monitoring in Saskatchewan.Police are all encrypted.
Ambulance services are all dispatched via M.D.T. No dispatch communications over the air.
All the volunteer fire department's members receive text messages for all calls. No dispatch communications over the air.
You guys in Alberta don't give in or ever give it up ! Ok !
If anyone asks I'm Unaffiliate or logged out.
Cheers