The Salem Police Department has upgraded its radio system so officers now can communicate with other city departments and neighboring public safety agencies — but the new system leaves a 15-minute delay for avid listeners.
After operating on a decades-old radio system, the police department flipped the switch earlier this month to an encrypted digital 800-megahertz system — a radio band that will be “critical” for quickly passing along real-time information, said Lt. Debbie Aguilar, a spokesperson with the police department… READ MORE
