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Gibson County seeks emergency funding to replace failing public-safety radio equipment
Summary
Sheriff’s office told commissioners aging console equipment and amplifiers failed during a recent move; officials requested Motorola consoles, paging and repeater upgrades and asked commissioners to advertise funding from E-911, EDIT and Riverboat funds.
Gibson County’s sheriff told the county commissioners that core components of the countywide public-safety radio system failed when the agency briefly shut the system down last month during a move, and he urged immediate replacement of consoles, repeaters and paging equipment.
The sheriff said two of three amplifiers “went down and did not come back up,” leaving operations dependent on a single console and a patchwork of adapters and workarounds. He described the equipment as decades old and said the failures create a “very, very bad” single point of failure for law enforcement, fire and EMS communications.
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