From Newyork.cbslocal.com,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and New York City (NYC) Police (NYPD) Commissioner Raymond Kelly are calling for legislation to create a wireless broadband network that would let law-enforcement agencies communicate with each other during an emergency.
NYC acted to improve coordination between the police and fire departments after the 2001 terror attacks, but Gillibrand and Kelly said the NYPD still needs a broadband network that would allow it to communicate with other agencies, including federal law enforcement.
“We must ensure that our officers, firefighters, and emergency workers can effectively communicate with one another during a real time of national crisis,” Gillibrand said. “It’s time to bring our first responder technology into the 21st century.”
Deputy Chief James Dowd of the NYPD told WCBS 880 last month that the broadband network would “give us all the capabilities, not just two-way voice like we do now, but would give us the ability to do video, data, any type of information that we need to share regionally or nationally, we would be able to do on this network.”
Read more and hear the report from WCBS 880's Peter Haskell here
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