Read Full Article | View Source
ROTTERDAM — When the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office responded to incidents in the western parts of the county as recently as last year, officers would often have to communicate with one another using cell phones due to long-standing inadequacies in the county’s emergency communications system.
The gaps in service created longer response times and put police and other emergency personnel at risk in situations where communication was vital and time was of the essence, according to Chief Deputy Sheriff John LuBrant, who noted that cell service in some parts of the county can be unreliable…
