Because of dead spots, a New Mexico state police officer couldn’t radio for help when he stopped three men at the end of a 45-minute chase of a suspected drunken driver, and ended up fatally shooting one man, and wounding another. The officer was in San Juan county, about 100 miles from Gallup where dispatchers handle radio traffic for the area. He was out of range for his own radio channel, and so had to switch to the county sheriff’s frequency to radio for medical help for the injured men. The state police switched last July, moving its regional dispatch from San Juan County to Gallup, and using state-wide radio network. Both the sheriff and state police use a conventional, repeated system in the 155 MHz band. Read more about the debate over radio reception here.
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