Washington County (SW Utah) Miscellaneous

[seanturpin01]

Im not sure what you mean by turn off my status bit to ignore? Ive got a Pro-97. But it actually is TG 19712. I dont know why I thought 19720, maybe I HAVE seen that one pop up for some reason but it is 19712 I was talking about. And I do pick up 6560 and I dont remember if ive seen 6568, I dont think so. I think my settings are all good.... I think i have just seen 19720 come up when i was just on the single voice channel I have stored and not in scan mode. Just like when I go to the voice channel for UHP and stop there, instead of TG 30464 it comes up like 30468 or something like that but then once I put it back in scan mode it will come up 30464. Thanks for the heads up though, im just not sure what you meant about status bit being set to ignore.

Sean

 

[enosjones]

status bit adds 8 to the tg

 

[Hooligan]

I hit the Washington County Fair yesterday evening. Because I was there with some 'civilians,' I attenuated my scanner-geekiness quite a bit, but did leave a scanner on in the car set to Close-Call only, plus the same thing with a BC-396XT in my pocket.

I'm very happy & relieved to see that Washington County LE actually is able to get off their regular dispatch channels when they want to! Why they didn't use a mutual-aid channel for multi-jurisdictional/multi-agency response events like the Santa Clara Bank robbery on Ironman marathon is beyond me.

Anyway, LE assets on-scene helping patrol the fair included UHP, Hurricane PD, Washington PD, St George PD, Washington County SO, and the Washington County Drug & Gang Task Force, and all were using 155.505MHz simplex -- a statewide mutual aid channel. Most but I don't think all units were using a 162.2Hz CTCSS. Medical staff were also on that channel. Dispatch was via a UHP Mobile Command Post. Hurricane's MCP was parked next to it.

WSO Explorers were directing cars in & out of the parking lots, & they were using 155.880MHz simplex, 141.3Hz. The only other use I've heard on that freq is as the low-profile repeater output for bailiffs at the judicial court in St George.

The Carnival was run by City of Fun Carnivals -- City of Fun Carnival & while I'm sure they've got at least one radio freq they use, I didn't see any radios with the ride operators (nor did I see any hardwired intercoms or phones) nor catch anything related on Close Call.

 

[Hooligan]

When in town & time permitting, I'm starting to pay better attention to St George PD callsigns in order
to figure out the structure.

For now, it seems that with a typical SGPD callsign like "3Bravo" or "6Charlie1", the first digit is their patrol area, the letter is their shift (B is either afternoons or swing-shift, C is midnights) & then if there's another #, it's simply to denote between more than one unit working that area & shift -- some quiet areas just having one patrol unit, others having more.

"Motors" would be motorcycle units of course, though they could also perhaps be traffic enforcement units in cruisers.

The 250-series units seem to be some sort of special detail. "101" handles regular dispatch calls, but otherwise is an unusual unit #. "5000" seems to be their brevity code for being at/headed to the PD, for example, "Control, 3Bravo will be 5000 for paperwork.:

I ID'ed a nice callsign series a few days ago on SGPD 1 -- 24Bravo units are the DHS Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents working with SGPD & the County Drug & Gang Task Force trying to round-up the illegals with major criminal records.

 

[Hooligan]

Here's my latest info on Washington County LE callsigns.

I paid a little attention to St George PD for a while, & it didn't take too long to come up with some basics thanks to traffic analysis & some lucky catches, but they in particular are a 'work in progress' for me, so I'm not promising the list to be 100% accurate, and I appreciate any educated feedback.

Washington County LE Callsigns

Charlie – WSO Central part of county
Delta - ??
DC - Drug Court trackers
Echo – WSO East side of county
Tango - Washington County Drug & Gang Task Force
Whiskey – WSO West side of county

1X - WCSO
2A - State Parks
2X - St George
3X - Santa Clara
4X - Hurricane
6X - Washington City
6X50, 51 = Animal Control Officers
7X - LaVerkin
9X - Springdale area
10X - Hildale
12X – Ivins
12X40 = Ivins Animal Control Officers
13B - BLM St George Office LE Rangers
20X - Search & Rescue team? Also heard with 700 series callsigns
24B - Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents
26A - Dixie State College PD
38A - UHP Washington County area
25A - UHP Iron County area?
St George PD

2X series plus:
101A, 101B = Road Patrol Command Officers (101B = Sgt)
250 series = Bicycle Patrol unit
King - K-9 unit

# = Patrol Area
#A = Day Shift
#B = Afternoons
#C = Midnight Shift

For example 5Charles2 is a second unit working midnights in patrol area 5.
Delta 1, 2 = ?? “Delta 1” was a Sgt ____.
Motor = Motorcycle (traffic enforcement) units, aka 300 series. Each individual motorcycle has a 300 series #.


Next, I gotta finally update the RRDB with some freq/channel info.

 

[AD7ZW]

Here's my latest info on Washington County LE callsigns.

I paid a little attention to St George PD for a while, & it didn't take too long to come up with some basics thanks to traffic analysis & some lucky catches, but they in particular are a 'work in progress' for me, so I'm not promising the list to be 100% accurate, and I appreciate any educated feedback.

Washington County LE Callsigns

Charlie – WSO Central part of county
Delta - ??
DC - Drug Court trackers
Echo – WSO East side of county
Tango - Washington County Drug & Gang Task Force
Whiskey – WSO West side of county

1X - WCSO
2A - State Parks
2X - St George
3X - Santa Clara
4X - Hurricane
6X - Washington City
6X50, 51 = Animal Control Officers
7X - LaVerkin
9X - Springdale area
10X - Hildale
12X – Ivins
12X40 = Ivins Animal Control Officers
13B - BLM St George Office LE Rangers
20X - Search & Rescue team? Also heard with 700 series callsigns
24B - Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents
26A - Dixie State College PD
38A - UHP Washington County area
25A - UHP Iron County area?
St George PD

2X series plus:
101A, 101B = Road Patrol Command Officers (101B = Sgt)
250 series = Bicycle Patrol unit
King - K-9 unit

# = Patrol Area
#A = Day Shift
#B = Afternoons
#C = Midnight Shift

For example 5Charles2 is a second unit working midnights in patrol area 5.
Delta 1, 2 = ?? “Delta 1” was a Sgt ____.
Motor = Motorcycle (traffic enforcement) units, aka 300 series. Each individual motorcycle has a 300 series #.


Next, I gotta finally update the RRDB with some freq/channel info.

38A = AP&P(Adult Probation And Parole)
UHP identifies by badge number should be 2 or 3 digits and calling Cedar (i.e. Cedar 123)

Reed
AD7ZW
Northeastern Utah

 

[kf7yn]

Nice work on the list!

A couple of corrections:
25A are Utah State Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division (MVED) units
38A are Utah Dept of Corrections, Adult Probation & Parole (APP) units

 

[seanturpin01]

Very good work!

I want to add that "Sierra" units seem to be high school patrol officers.

 

[Hooligan]

Thanks to all of you, Sean, I was especially curious about the SIERRA units, but them being the School Resource Officers makes perfect sense. City of St. George, Utah :: St. George Police Department

My list above failed to include the VICTOR units, who are the Volunteers In Public Safety. That one was the easiest to figure out, since some of them sound like little old men & LOLs on the air. I passed one of their patrols cars today -- big VIPS logo & amber lightbar on it.

Speaking of SGPD, "5000" is their vernacular for their police station, for example, "I'm (at) 5000, waiting for you. Are you 10-17 yet?"

I expect these neighborhood regions for their Community Action Teams are also the police patrol areas: City of St. George, Utah :: St. George Police Department

So for now, I'm still really curious as to who the DELTA units are. Pretty rarely heard, & when I do hear one, he's usually just reporting going off-duty. A few weeks ago they dispatched a car to a stalled vehicle that "Delta 1" had called-in (apparently via cellphone) & the responding unit was advised that Sgt [garbled] (Delta 1) is behind the vehicle, with his amber lights on." Monitoring Kane County, they also have a Delta unit that's very rarely heard on the air.

Saturday is the Washington County 9/11 Memorial & Disaster Preparedness Expo, from 10A-3AM at the Dixie Center. Who will get there first & ask a SGPD officer who the Delta unit is, Sean or myself? I'm betting on Sean, since I don't plan on waking up until 10AM.

Washington County, Utah - Emergency Services Department - Preparedness Expo

 

[k7kop]

The delta units might be detectives. Based on what you are describing. The detectives in my area use their cell phones more than the radio.

 

[Hooligan]

The delta units might be detectives. Based on what you are describing. The detectives in my area use their cell phones more than the radio.

Thanks! That same notion dawned on me at about 2AM, since it follows the same S = Schools, V = Volunteers logic.

Also, while listening to SGPD early this morning I heard a 101Charlie unit, so I'm pretty confident that the 101s are field supervisors (Sgts) with the suffix indicating their shift.

I submitted an accurate list of SGPD primary radio channels/freqs (1 - 5) to the RRDB yesterday evening so hopefully they'll be posted soon.

I'm off to the Washington County Disaster Preparedness thing now & will report back on my intel gathering.


Tim

 

[Hooligan]

Here's what I learned/verified this afternoon:

St George PD

All sworn officers have a personal 2X numerical suffix assigned to them. Command officers normally just ID with their 2X #, for example, 2X1 should the the Chief of Police.

101 = Road Patrol Field Command (Sergeants)
250 series = Bicycle Patrol unit
300 series – Accident Investigators
Delta – Detectives
Motor – Motorcycle units
King – K-9 unit
Sierra – School Resource Officer
Tango – Traffic Enforcement
Victor – Volunteer In Police Service

# = Patrol Area
#A = Day Shift
#B = Swing Shift
#C = Night Shift

For example “5Charles” is a unit working midnights in patrol area 5, 101B is a swing shift Sgt.

*************
I'm not 100% about the Tango listing. Certainly the T = Traffic makes sense, but so does T = Task Force (Washington County Gang & Drug TF). So Sean & I will have to pay extra attention to the Tangos, Motors, & 300 series when we hear them on SGPD. I was able to verify that the patrol area numbers & boundaries are the same as depicted on the CAT map I gave the URL for in a prior post.


It does seem like SGPD will be migrating to the UCAN system sometime this Fall or Winter.

Finally, they use "5000" as a reference to their PD headquarters because in days past, the main SGPD phone # ended in 5000!


Tim

 

[seanturpin01]

Verrrrry nice! I must add that I am pretty certain the Tango units are task force because I had heard them on the scanner and later on when I checked the bookings page, I saw the same names I heard on the scanner arrested for drugs by WDTF. But I will keep my ears open!

 

[Hooligan]

Verrrrry nice! I must add that I am pretty certain the Tango units are task force because I had heard them on the scanner and later on when I checked the bookings page, I saw the same names I heard on the scanner arrested for drugs by WDTF. But I will keep my ears open!

I'm glad to get that second opinion, Sean. I'm now paying extra-attention to the TANGOs that I hear on the local PD dispatch channels, to see if they seem to be doing Traffic-unit type stuff, like a Tango ## being dispatched to a crash. As you know, the WDTF is comprised of officers from all the major local departments, after we hear them wrap up on that special channel, it seems like they'll often go to their own PD's channel to call 10-42, as their local PD funds some or all of their hours.

I did hear a Tango & a Motor unit on SGPD 1 today but their traffic didn't provide any clues.

 

[Hooligan]

Found a cool one yesterday that I'd been wondering about:

Dixie Center, which is the area's conference/expo center located near I-15 & Bluff St in St George uses 463.325/DCS624 simplex for operations.



Regarding the local public safety DELTA callsigns, which are Detective units for St George PD, heading home form Kanab a few days ago & monitoring that region's 155.700/155.070 net (used by Kane County, Kanab City, Fredonia Town Marshall, UT DPS, AZ DPS...) I heard a Delta # unit advise dispatch he'd be "Out at the tribal office."

The ONLY tribe & tribal office in that area I'm aware of is the Kaibab-Pauite Tribe Indian Reservation located along AZ Hwy 389 in Pipe Springs (Mohave County AZ) & I was about 3 minutes away from there. I drove by the tribal office & the only two vehicles there were BIA Police patrol cars. I was tempted to see if the hood of one of the cars was hot, but...

So I'm back to thinking that at least on that LE Net, the Delta units are BIA police. I'm sure one of these days I'll get a chance to talk with one of the officers & will confirm the callsign.


Finally, a while back we had a little discussion here about what AZ LEA actually patrols Mohave County's Hwy 389 'Arizona Strip' section between the Utah border at Hildale & the Coconino County line just outside of Fredonia. Based on my observations from driving that route back & forth once a week & monitoring all the usual suspects from home, I still believe the info I posted here several months ago is accurate (AZ Highway Patrol routinely patrols it. Mohave County SO is rarely there, & probably just if doing some sort of investigation or follow-up). However, Arizona has constructed a small, regional office just outside of Colorado City that'll be used by AZ DOT, AZ Highway Patrol, Mohave SO & Mohave District Attorney's Office so I expect to see MCSO in that area more often.

 

[Hooligan]

Spent about 30 min sitting in the car waiting while a friend was in a store along Telegraph Ave at Green Springs Drive -- the main commercial district of Washington City & did some radio-geeking.

Here's what I found by using a BC-396XT's Service Search ('Special') & Close Call:

Officemax: 467.875/67.0

Sonic drive thru: 464.1875 (order taker only) & 469.1875/131.8 both sides

Best Buy: 467.925/506

Walmart: 154/570/67.0

Del Taco drive thru: 468.4875/88.5

Wendy's drive thru: 469.0125/131.8

Home Depot: 467.7625/065

Costco: 467.7625/67.0 niiice, it's only about 1/4 mile from Home Depot...

?????: 462.5625/131.8 Yes, this is an FRS /GMRS channel. Comms were along the lines of sending people to different color-coded stations -- "OK, you can send a person to Orange, Pink, Gold & Green now." Possibly a Red Cross blood drive, as they mentioned that "White will be tied-up for a while because the person is having a reaction. A nurse is on the way." If it was a blood donation thing, they had a lot of stations set up & a lot of people waiting to donate, hence I think it was a blood drive at an area business, & not the regular blood donor center in St George, which from past experience, tends to have people er, TRICKLE in.

 

[tay2079]

Area info

SGPD:
The numbers are the area the officer is assinged to work. I.E. area 1, 2,3,5,9,10 ect... The A or alpha is day shift, the B or bravo is swing shift and C or charlie is grave yards. So one alpha would be area one day shift, while 9 charlie would be grave yard area 9. 101 a b or c would be either a day shift (alpha) swing shift (bravo) or grave yard (charlie) supervisor. 251, 252 and so on are the bike patrol units. Units like 2x7 and 2x11 are LT's. S or sierra units are school resource officers. Motor one two three ect are of course the motorcycle officers. SGPD has borrowed heavily from LVMPD for radio procedures.

MCSO:
Does patrol Highway 389 (to Fredonia), Highway 91, and I-15. They do not have the man power to cover 389 and Colorado City very often but they do patrol the area. The units in this area work district 5. District 5 alone covers over 4,000 square miles of jurisdiction. They do have a repeater near Moccasin. It usually patches over to the repeater near Beaver Dam so you normally should hear the 5P (five paul...24,41,42, and 73) units on the main freq. If not they do have the west side channel and east side channel I don't have the freq anymore.

AZDPS:
As mentioned before the AZDPS units are AZ150 ..151....155 ect units. They have an office in Beaver Dam and one in Fredonia.

Both MCSO and AZDPS stop many folks from the St. George area on I-15 and on 91. They also have jurisdiction 40 something miles in to the state of Utah.

 

[seanturpin01]

Hahaha! Hooligan you are the man. My scanner goes with me everywhere haha. Only thing is the Signal Stalker on my Pro-97 isnt that good. It doesnt ever pick anything up. Ill have to make a bank just for these weird ones! hahaha

 

[enosjones]

Remember Las Vegas Edacs Covers St. George

Remember Las Vegas Edacs Covers St. George Area, 012 C St. George, Utah LCN 01 856.46250c LCN 02 857.46250c LCN 03 858.46250

Covers St. George very well... I've only heard a couple of TG's Used That i Remember....

 

[Hooligan]

Remember Las Vegas Edacs Covers St. George Area, 012 C St. George, Utah LCN 01 856.46250c LCN 02 857.46250c LCN 03 858.46250

Covers St. George very well... I've only heard a couple of TG's Used That i Remember....

I can hear a couple NSRS EDACS control channels from my home, the site on Utah Hill of course being the strongest. However, the couple times I've monitored NSRS while in Nevada, I've never really heard anything of interest, just the mundane NHP traffic stops & stuff. For that reason, I don't monitor it from home though I should at least set it up on the home scanners & lock-out the busy but usually boring talk groups.


There was a great chase Friday night/Saturday morning starting around 11:30MDT. A LVMPD unit was pursuing a minivan driven by some guy with a warrant out of Nebraska. I guess he initially pulled over for a traffic stop but then took off. Speeds were 100+. Doesn't seem like NHP ever got involved, and the LVMPD guy was in a pickup truck so he had a hard time keeping up with the high speed offender.

LVMPD tried to alert Arizona DPS & Mohave SO, but the report back was they had "no one in the area," which I find very hard to believe for a Friday night around 11PM PDT. So St George PD, Washington County SO, and Utah HP were all notified & some of them set up in the Virgin Gorge, with SGPD set up with Spike Strips inside Utah. Spike Strips were deployed a couple times in a couple locations (one innocent car hot the spikes too) but the idiot's minivan did a good job of still doing 70+ just on the rims. He finally went off the road near Exit 16, took off on foot & was caught in some back yard at about 1:30AM MDT.

I won't get on a rant again, but it really amazes me how Washington County LE doesn't have a ^%$@* mutual-aid channel they use for things like this. All the LEAs are still on VHF & they do have each-other's channels plus the 155.505 statewide channel. All but UHP are even dispatched from the same location (SGPD). Yet the six separate LEAs involved in the pursuit were on the four separate VHF radio dispatch channels -- SGPD 1, WSO 1, UHP Virgin for UHP & the AZ DPS unit that was woken up & responding from I guess his home near St George, & the 'East Law' channel (155.610) for Washington City & Hurricane PDs. These 4 different channels being tied-up for this one fluid event created an informational lag-time, wasted a lot of air-time, tied-up four dispatchers, and caused a variety of safety issues, for example SGPD Kilo-1 (K-9 unit) couldn't have his doggy "go fetch!" because there were officers from other PDs, on other radio freqs, running after the bad-guy. Plus, on a personal, radio-geek note, you all know how annoying it can be to try to listen to comms on 3 or 4 receivers simultaneously.


It does seem like the Tangos normally heard on SGPD are indeed Traffic units. A few days ago I heard a referred to Tango ##, Officer ____. I found a recent listing for that officer being assigned to the SGPD Traffic unit.