California Releases Public Safety Communications Strategic Plan

California's public safety agencies maintain 14 separate systems, in varying conditions, to deliver on their missions throughout the state. Several agencies experience coverage gaps and use old equipment that's difficult to maintain, while others are looking toward 2013 narrowbanding requirements and adding data capabilities to their working voice networks for interoperability, according to an assessment of agency systems included in a statewide plan.

The California Public Safety Radio Communications Strategic Plan seeks to provide goals and objectives to ensure that the state has up-to-date communications technologies in place to aid departments' daily work as well during an emergency.