Campus Police Complain About Radio System

It may be a smaller university campus, but police officers at Florida International University (FIU) say their radio needs are no less critical. That’s why they’ve been complaining since 2006 about poor coverage and system outages on their 470 MHz radio system. The problems were spotlighted during the recent on-campus murder of an FIU football player. “You might as well get two cans and a string,” said Miami-Dade police union president John Rivera. He said officers are particularly concerned about the lack of a feature to prevent officers from talking over each other during an emergency, which occurred during the latest murder incident. A local TV station documented many complaints about the radio system over the last four years, including a lack of interoperability with surrounding agencies—Miami and Dade County use separate 800 MHz trunked systems. Read more about the complaints here.