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The truck isn't finished yet, still has some work left.

The truck isn't finished yet, still has some work left.

Channel 5 is a split Tx and Rx channel similar to a repeater but there's no repeater involved. They added channel 6 and 13 to be "monitor channels for channel 5"
Almost all of the departments in Putnam have gone to VHF, UHF and Tband for firegrounds. All of the western Putnam departments have moved to UHF and Tband (due to difficulty obtaining VHF frequencies so close to the Hudson River), the east side of the county is mostly VHF. Alot of the departments that did go to high band are using district wide repeaters and in vehicle crossband repeaters so they can use their high band portables to communicate on low band and maintain interoperability. There's some talk about revamping the whole system.

With all of the information on new truck orders, Is there any interest in creating a link where departments could post equipment and apparatus that they are looking to get rid of?

With all of the information on new truck orders, Is there any interest in creating a link where departments could post equipment and apparatus that they are looking to get rid of?

Just wondering if there is any interest or even a possibility of adding a section to the emtbravo home page just for upcoming training events. All to often we miss out on training courses because we didn't know about them or where to look to find them. I've seen some really good courses and seminars in the upcoming future that have come by me through forwarded emails. In this section any member could post an upcoming training event complete with course descriptions, dates, locations and pre-requisites. This section could be a stand alone section similar to the incident alerts where it would always be present on the home page, making it easier to find and provide everyone with a central location to learn about various upcoming training.
Just a thought.

Just wondering if there is any interest or even a possibility of adding a section to the emtbravo home page just for upcoming training events. All to often we miss out on training courses because we didn't know about them or where to look to find them. I've seen some really good courses and seminars in the upcoming future that have come by me through forwarded emails. In this section any member could post an upcoming training event complete with course descriptions, dates, locations and pre-requisites. This section could be a stand alone section similar to the incident alerts where it would always be present on the home page, making it easier to find and provide everyone with a central location to learn about various upcoming training.
Just a thought.

Ive read this post many times and I still fail to see the reason for posting it but it most certainly requires a response.
From what I know of you, you have no background in Law Enforcement so your ideas of how cops should feel about being cops and what they should do on duty may be how it is in a perfect world but in reality thats not how it works. This would be like me who knows nothing of fire fighting making critical observations about the fire service and putting all over the post " No offense guys" and " this is not a knock to firefighters".
As far as I've seen, you're the only member on here from texas so you are the only one who could answer your own question of " why are police officers down here so different ?"
I've been a cop for 12 years and I go balls to the wall every day I go into work as do most cops I know. Would it be nice to follow up with every crime victim we deal with ? Yes but we don't have the time or the manpower to do that stuff. How do you know that cops up here don't know their post as well as cops in Texas ?
Cops are in a unique situation to be cross trained in rescue, where as FD's can't be trained in law enforcement specific things... thats just the way it is.
You ask why is there competition ? There always has and always will be competiton in the emergency services and it's healthy to a degree.
You ask why are there not more hudson river patrols ? There are in the summer but not so much in the winter but what does one thing have to do with the other ?
The bottom line is that expanding the scope of your working capabilities means more job security and possibly more state and federal funding.
The biggest difference between cops up here and cops in texas is that maybe cops in texas enjoy a lot more community support than cops in the north east get.