Tompkins County received a $2.8-million grant to improve emergency communication between local responders and outside agencies from the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Wednesday.
The grant will support enhancements to the county?s radio communications infrastructure, including radio receivers and transmitters that can access additional frequency bands, so emergency responders can be connected to state and federal agencies.
The program also provides for the construction of radio links that will connect Tompkins County?s radio system to adjacent county radio systems, allowing the counties? emergency response teams to communicate with each other and provide better access to each others? base stations and radio transmitting sites.
?The grant pairs a statewide need with a region-wide approach to improving the responder radio interoperability and coordination of large-scale events that cross county lines,? said Lee Shurtleff, the county?s director of emergency response, in a press release.
The county?s public safety agencies and many local governments operate on an 800-Megahertz frequency. More than 1,400 people use the system, which processed more than 2.7 million transmissions last year, according to the press release.
?Through the addition of designated national and state mutual aid channels in each of these other frequency bands, incoming agencies will be able to reliably communicate with our 911 Communications Center and be linked to our responders on the 800-Megahertz system,? he said.
A New York plan to create a statewide digital communication system was abandoned three years ago after 10 years of effort, leaving behind a patchwork of aging and disconnected systems that do not operate well in many areas, according to the press release. New York awarded Tompkins County the grant in full in the latest round of the Statewide Interoperable Communications Grant program, which funds enhancements to the operation of public safety communications.
?Our proposal carefully considered the County?s challenges in communicating beyond Tompkins County borders and leveraged the county?s infrastructure and technology to meet those challenges,? Shurtleff said in the press release. ?The state clearly appreciates the approach and is funding the project 100 percent.?
Source: http://cornellsun.com/node/55361
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