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AUSTIN (KXAN) — South by Southwest is here and so are the crowds.
“Thousands upon thousands of more people coming to Austin,” said Lt. Ken Murphy, the head of emergency communications with the Austin Police Department.
“Instead of overloading those sectors with special events calls, we separate them out, so we just have the regular calls going to the regular radio channels,” said Murphy. He also said emergency communications can’t pull from outside agencies like patrol does, because the systems are too different…
