Report: Police Radios Don't Work Inside JetBlue Terminal at JFK

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The new $743 million JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport is a police radio "dead zone," with Port Authority officers unable to communicate with one another using their radios, according to the New York Post.

Police Radios Don't Work Inside JetBlue Terminal: Report

How could this happen? Does PAPD use a trunked system?

Edited March 28, 2011 by firedude

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Here is the original report by the New York Post:

The new $743 million JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport is a police radio "dead zone" that puts Port Authority cops in a Ground Zero-like communications blackout that has already led to a slew of police injuries, The Post has learned.

JFK radio daze imperils PA cops

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This really isn't a complicated fix. Put temporary repeaters inside the terminal, until permanent ones can be installed. But there's probaly going to be a dispute on who should fund it. I don't think an officer engaged with a subject has the time to make a cell phone call when he or she needs backup......

I know the new American Airlines terminal at JFK is gigantic, I wonder how they work on there?

Kind of an unrelated question- who dispatches the PAPD, and where are they located? Is each facility have their own dispatch?