Has Trenton PD discontinued its patch of its dispatch channel to the
Mercer County Interoperable Public Safety Radio System TGID 348?
The mode in the DB shows DE but it's been open for the past couple of years....
Hi Bob I haven't heard from you in a long time. As you know I've been retired from Trenton for quite a while and really have no interest in listening to the PD or ever going there, but they have been in the clear dispatch for a long time on C3-02 TG 2283 2 COMM Hamilton headquarters on NJICS. It has not been marked as E.
As I say I haven't paid attention but anytime I want to listen to Trenton dispatch after suspects from Trenton would come to tullytown in PA and rob the Walmart, I would just go to that talk group and they would be there loud and in the clear. I'm pretty sure the rest of the police are also on the same system and are encrypted..
That would be talk groups like conversation, Street crime one and two, the old Channel 5 and 6, supervisors conversation, CIB, detectives, homicide and other talk groups.
Going off the top of my head because it's late I think it's been quite a while since they've been on Mercer County's TRS which they used or were lent? After the nxdn crap system moved them off when city council wouldn't pay the bills.
My guess would be because it was a terrible system from day one in 2015 or so. That was in the clear for 5 years until somebody let the cat out of the bag and it went encrypted.
Now here's the caveat.. word on the street is that the state police are going encrypted and they will be starting with the central units.
Will Trenton police dispatch also be encrypted on 2 comm, who knows, they're not now.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everything is going good up there in Yardley.
I'm going to really miss 10 comm NJSP Marine Division on the river.
