What is up with El Cajon Police dispatch

[mike619]

On El Cajon Police dispatch 1 I keep getting encryption occasionally can anyone tell me what is going on? it is intermittent.

 

[K6CDO]

They probably have started occasionally encrypting traffic.

 

[mike619]

Do other cities do that? Also I heard the dispatch once try talking to an officer and the dispatch said the officer had encryption on and apparently couldn't relay what they were going to say to the officer.

 

[K6CDO]

Some are, but not usually on the main dispatch group.

 

[donrob36]

I Listen to ECPD Primarly and yes use encryption sound like a busy signal??

 

[Anderegg]

Do other cities do that? Also I heard the dispatch once try talking to an officer and the dispatch said the officer had encryption on and apparently couldn't relay what they were going to say to the officer.

I've heard that as well. Sometimes officers will switch from a talkgroup that they were toggled on for encryption, back to the main, and forget to flip the toggle back to clear.

El Cajon PD typically uses encryption for their SWAT and ENT talkgroups.

Paul

 

[f40ph]

I've heard that as well. Sometimes officers will switch from a talkgroup that they were toggled on for encryption, back to the main, and forget to flip the toggle back to clear.

El Cajon PD typically uses encryption for their SWAT and ENT talkgroups.

Paul

I wonder who thought the users would be able to operate that switch correctly? Guess they didn't learn anything from the Feds that had this problem years ago...

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec11/tech/full_papers/Clark.pdf