Phoenix Alarm

[E5911]

Toured pfd alarm. Learned a few items of interest:
7 dispatchers on duty with a capability to have up to 21 including supervisors.
They have the capability to add all kinds of channels and talkgroups on the fly from a bank of APX radios in the comm closet.
Average about 10000 calls a day

They have outgrown the present center and are planning to add a additional dispatch center in a new building sometime in the future.
VHF is not going anywhere soon. They have ditched the xts radios for APX vhf/800 radios and short of changing city fire code to require in building repeaters, hazard zone traffic will remain on VHF.


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[Phoenix805]

Times sure have changed. I was in the OLD dispatch center in the mid - late 70's when they were in the little building on the NE corner of 9 St & Van Buren, then again about 5 years later when they moved onto the 4th floor of the Police building at 7 Ave & Washington.

I lost track of them after that, but I think they've moved twice since then. And now they need to move again? I suppose, since Phoenix has grown about 500% since then, and now they dispatch valley wide.

Nice pic!

 

[KB7MIB]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en-US) Gecko/20081217 Vision-Browser/8.1 301x200 LG VN530)

I got into the PD's 4th floor once, in the mid '90's with a friend who was a PFD recruit. I don't know if he ever made the cut, we lost touch.