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A radio connection upgrade has eliminated between six and eight dead areas in Westbrook where portable public safety radios didn’t work.
“We had a lot of dead spots in the city. It made it very difficult for officers, as their transmissions were often garbled in these areas, and you did not know if they were in trouble or had routine radio traffic,” Police Capt. Steve Goldberg said. “Officers on the scene could not communicate with each other, even if they were on the same property. Officers definitely felt unsafe.”
Emergency radio communications are carried out by five radio towers that are connected by fiber links, according to Public Safety Communications Director Greg Hamilton. With upgrades to the links, public safety personnel now are seeing improved communication and no more dead spots where their hip radios couldn’t receive or send messages…
