Grant Will Help Vernon Upgrade Police Radio System - Courant.com

Grant Will Help Vernon Upgrade Police Radio System - Courant.com

Town To Upgrade Police Radio System
1:42 PM EDT, October 6, 2010

VERNON –


The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded the town $300,000 to begin converting the police radio system to digital signaling.

The grant, available through the justice department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, was obtained through the efforts of U.S. Rep. Joseph Courtney, Town Administrator John D. Ward has told the town council.

The grant helps communities pay for equipment and programs that advance community policing efforts locally.

With the aid of computers, digital signals can be scrambled making them harder for criminals and scanner heads to listen in on. Digital signals can also carry non verbal messages, like typed dispatch addresses and maps, freeing voice channels for emergency use.

—Joseph A. O'Brien Jr.