res148cue said:
Does anyone know what police frequency the NPD Helicopter uses? Or do they just use any of the district frequencies.
I ask because if anyone heard it, there was a pursuit earlier that originated in Newark and I could only hear the helicopter on SPEN 1 talking to NJSP. I was monitoring the NPD frequencies and I never heard them.
I checked the RR archives and no one was able to answer the question then, so I thought I would re-ask now.
Thanks,
P.S. While typing another pursuit in the south dist. 2233
I monitor Newark daily and I heard those 2 pursuits yesterday. First one was a VW Passat wanted for eluding, mv violations, and aggrivated assault on a police officer after he rammed a unit. Pursuit originated in Newark then he went on 280 westbound. Orange PD and West Orange PD got a part of the pursuit in their city. Monitored them too. After he almost rammed a W. Orange unit they broke it off so he came back to Newark where ABLE1 followed him everywhere until Newark units got him. They wanted to terminate the pursuit but the units kept going after him and it was a battle of the dispatcher and the units.
Dispatcher "as per 400, break off the pursuit"
NPD Unit "negative"
Dispatcher "identify yourself unit"
NPD Unit "he's going west on south orange"
rofl...the units in pursuit were totally ignoring the dispatcher. This continued until they finally got him. Newark units weren't going to stop chasing him. It was hillarious.
Okay back to your question, the NPD helicopter "ABLE1" operates on any of the NPD freqs as it did yesterday. He was on the West precinct freq and he communicates with other agencies on SPEN1 if the car leaves Newark (as he did yesterday) and that's what you heard. But usually I hear ABLE1 on the Newark precinct freqs when there is a pursuit in the city...
The second pursuit yesterday in the South District turned out it the car was stolen from Clifton, NJ. After a bail and foot pursuit 2 were in custody but 1 at large who got picked up by another car during the foot pursuit. Good Scanning.............xpawel15x