Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee

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Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee

• Public Meeting
• Information Gathering Sharing

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PSRSPC Public Meetings

• Monday, July 28th, 2003
• Ronald Reagan Building - Auditorium
• Los Angeles
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• Thursday, July 31st, 2003
• Elihu Harris Building - Auditorium
• Oakland
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• Tuesday, August 5th, 2003
• State Office of Emergency Services
• Rancho Cordova

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PSRSPC Members

• California Highway Patrol
• Department of Transportation
• Department of Corrections
• Department of Parks and Recreation
• Department of Fish and Game
• Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

• Department of Justice
• Department of Water Resources
• Emergency Medical Services Authority
• Department of Youth Authority
• Department of General Services

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Agenda

• Opening Remarks Call to Order
• Overview of Interoperability
• Regional Initiative Briefings
• Initiatives in Other Regions
• Committee Comments
• Consultant Group Comments
• Public Comments
• Closing

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Legislative Charge

• Develop implement a statewide public safety
  communication system for state agencies
• Facilitate interoperability with local and
  federal agencies
• Seek input from regional planning committees or
  others for developing interoperability
• Consult with Public Safety Professional
  Associations
• Develop standard memoranda of understanding and
  agreements for interoperability or other shared
  use between local, federal agencies and state
  agencies
• Determine which agencies need new or upgraded
  communication equipment

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Consultant Groups

• California State Peace Officers Association
• California Police Chiefs Association
• California State Sheriffs' Association
• California Professional Firefighters
• California Fire Chiefs Association

• California State Association of Counties
• League of California Cities
• California State Firefighters Association
• California Coalition of Law Enforcement
  Associations
• California Correctional Peace Officers Association

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Definitions

• Mutual Aid A concept of resource sharing in
  which similar organizations assist each other
  during emergencies and day-to-day operations
• Shared Use Use of a communications system by
  more than one political subdivision or more than
  one discipline within a political subdivision on
  an on-going basis subject to an agreement.
  Shared Use usually involves a sharing of the
  capital cost of shared equipment. It often
  involves the creation of a Joint Powers
  Authority, or other formal arrangement for
  sharing on-going cast and management of the
  system. Shared Use may be as simple as one
  agency licensing a frequency they manage for use
  on radios owned and operated by other agencies at
  their own cost.

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Definitions

• Interoperability The ability of different
  governmental agencies (and disciplines) to
  communicate across jurisdictions and with each
  other. Across jurisdictions means up and down as
  well as laterally it means state to local as
  well as police to fire.
• Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) An agreement by
  which two or more public agencies by agreement
  may jointly exercise any power common to the
  contracting parties, even though one or more of
  the contracting agencies may be located outside
  this state.

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Definitions

• Public Safety - Police, Fire, Emergency Medical
  Services, Highway Maintenance, Search Rescue,
  and other Public Works functions of a
  governmental entity.
• Spectrum The Public Safety radio spectrum is
  made up of a number of segments of the overall
  radio spectrum. These segments (called bands)
  have differing characteristics as far as coverage
  and building penetration. Cross-band linking
  frequencies in two (or more) radio bands together
  to permit communications between users. Usually
  with repeater systems on paired frequencies in
  each band.

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Definitions

• Trunking A technology to increase spectrum use
  efficiency by time-sharing frequencies. Trunking
  is a dynamic system. Successive conversations
  among a group of users may take place on
  different frequencies in the shared pool without
  any action by the participants.
• Tactical switching on-demand linking of two
  communications paths (either cross band, or in
  the same band), usually at the scene of an
  incident. Also usually accomplished with
  repeater systems on paired frequencies in each
  band or service.

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Characteristics of Interoperability

• Local vs. Regional vs. Statewide
• Command level vs. Tactical level
• Permanent infrastructure vs. Incident-based.

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California Interoperability

• 1960s CLEMARS for Law Enforcement
• 1970s - White Channels for Fire
• Mid-1980s CALCORD, CAs first Interoperability
  channel
• Late 1980s NPSPAC International Tactical
  Channels

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Managing Interoperability

• Management of Radio Frequency Use Standards
• Licensing of Mutual Aid, Shared or Interoperable
  Radio Frequencies

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Regional Initiatives

• Santa Clara County Communications
• Sheryl Contois, CoordinatorPolice Technical
  ServicesPalo Alto Police Department

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Regional Initiatives

• Golden Gate RegionBridge Incident Response
• Related Projects
• Michael Griffin
• Assistant Chief
• OES Law Enforcement Branch

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Regional Initiatives

• CHP / Metropolitan Transportation Commission
  Initiative
• Reginald Chappelle, Captain
• California Highway Patrol
• Communications