San Francisco Public Safety going Digital June 2021

[officer_415]

I monitored for the first time in a while today and noticed a new TG 65 active, sounded like some kind of homeless outreach team. Car 1 and 2 talking to dispatch about trash/debris cleanup and people sleeping on the sidewalk. @rustyhodge do you have any more info?

 

[rustyhodge]

I monitored for the first time in a while today and noticed a new TG 65 active, sounded like some kind of homeless outreach team. Car 1 and 2 talking to dispatch about trash/debris cleanup and people sleeping on the sidewalk. @rustyhodge do you have any more info?

I didn't but I confirm on Openmhz there is a bunch of traffic on this TG.

OpenMHz

openmhz.com

They have traffic on it going back 30 days (as much as they archive) so unsure how long this has been a thing.

I went back and listened to a lot of calls. I'm not sure what division this is but agree it's some kind of homeless outreach.

I've heard the term "PEH" in many transmissions, which is an abbreviation for "Person Experiencing Homelessness"

They also talk about ADA compliant, which appears to mean that the PEH or encampment is not blocking the sidewalk. They seem to refer some cases to SFPD (I'm assuming for drug use/distribution, bike chop shops, etc). They seem to refer encampments/PEH to SDPD who are on private property.

There are 3 groups I know of dealing with homeless in SF: Street Crisis Response Team (SCRT), Street Wellness, Response Team (SWRT), and Street Overdose Response Team (SORT)

But this seems must different. This seems more to be about keeping the tent encampments "in compliance" (seems like ADA compliant is the key).

I read about a newer "Community Response Team / Homeless Engagement Assistance Response Team" that may have been contracted out to Urban Alchemy but I thought they were only dealing with the Tenderloin area. More on Urban Alchemy Urban Alchemy, a model for hope in San Francisco’s street team landscape

Thanks for pointing all this out! I'll ask around and see what I can find out.

 

[footage]

Urban Alchemy is on DMR (TelePath) but I believe it's encrypted; I've never been able to monitor them.

 

[rustyhodge]

I'm guessing that TG65 is HEART, a new name for CRT which is staffed by Urban Alchemy.

I was reading through this PDF on the performance audio of SF homeless programs...

https://missionloca.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/110723-Performance-Audit-of-San-Francisco-Street-Teams.pdf

Here's some interesting details:

Community Response Team (CRT) / Homeless Engagement Assistance Response Team (HEART)

DEM and Urban Alchemy renamed the program the Homeless Engagement Assistance Response Team (HEART) and launched the team on May 30, 2023.

HEART is staffed with DEM-contracted Community Engagement Outreach Practitioners.

HEART responds to non-medical, non-emergency calls about individuals experiencing
homelessness.

DEM has weekly operational meetings with our contracted service provider, Urban Alchemy/HEART, conducts monthly invoice review, a quarterly deep dive of financial management and will do a semi-annual performance review that reviews progress towards goals outlined in the contract.

The Community Response Team (CRT) is responsible for providing a non-uniformed response to non-medical, non-emergency 9-1-1 and 3-1-1 calls related to people who are experiencing homelessness. Funding for the team was included in the Department of Emergency Management’s FY 2022-23 budget and in October 2022 DEM issued an RFP for a community- based organization to run the program. The highest-scoring proposer was Urban Alchemy, and the contract between DEM and Urban Alchemy for the CRT program was executed on May 1, 2023.

CRT/HEART hours are listed as Mon.-Fri. 7am-7pm; Sa-Su 7am-3:30pm (which coincides with radio traffic on that TG)

 

[officer_415]

I'm guessing that TG65 is HEART, a new name for CRT which is staffed by Urban Alchemy.

CRT/HEART hours are listed as Mon.-Fri. 7am-7pm; Sa-Su 7am-3:30pm (which coincides with radio traffic on that TG)

Excellent work! Listening to the calls on OpenMHz, I think they're actually saying HEART 1/2/3, not Car 1/2/3.

 

[officer_415]

Running Unitrunker on Site 21 tonight, I noticed it was announcing a new neighbor 001-001 with CC 851.9625 (I didn't hear anything on that frequency, and it's licensed to BART).

There are also P25 data channels on 852.8625 and 851.1250 that decode as "TDULC" in DSD+

 

[mcjones2013]

Running Unitrunker on Site 21 tonight, I noticed it was announcing a new neighbor 001-001 with CC 851.9625 (I didn't hear anything on that frequency, and it's licensed to BART).

There are also P25 data channels on 852.8625 and 851.1250 that decode as "TDULC" in DSD+

Are you able to run DSDPlus on Site 21? I believe they're using ISSI stuff on that SF system to tie into nearby systems for roaming with certain talkgroups, and I know DSDPlus will show that actual SysID along with the Site ID if it's a neighbor site but on a different SysID. I don't know if Unitrunker shows it properly. Maybe those BART frequencies belong to the Site 1 on their P25 system for the underground operations, which SFFD would want to have access to.

 

[officer_415]

Are you able to run DSDPlus on Site 21?

Good call, on DSD+ the neighbor entry reads "Site BEE00.ADC-1.1; CC=0-153 Info Outdated"

The rest of the neighbors are BEE00.2BB (1.22, 1.25, and 1.26)

 

[ScanRafael]

SFFD units respond on A1 -A3.

Are SFFD units also dispatched to calls on A1-A3?

 

[KD6JEK]

Yes...