Oakland County, MI Integrates Improved Radio Communication System

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Law enforcement in Oakland County are praising a new radio communications system they say will save lives.

On Wednesday, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office alongside the Southfield police and Farmington Hills fire departments held a press conference revealing the new P25 radios.

The radios are a part of a $61 million investment that also included upgrades to 20 dispatch centers too.
Sgt. Lawrence Tomasino has been with the Southfield Police Department for almost a decade. He says working through in different capacities at the department, he got to see the challenges their current radio communications posed.

"A lot of incidents tend to run south of 8 Mile (Road), which is Wayne County, and essentially as soon as we cross that line, our radios would have issues with static and connectivity," Tomasino said. "Even as a detective, we’d be doing follow-ups all over in the tri-county area. Our radios would be useless outside the city. We were better off contacting dispatch saying we’re out at a location by cellphone instead."

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