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NameLouisville Emergency Communications Network: MetroSafe
OwnerLouisville Metro Government EMA/MetroSafe
Owner TypePublic
CountiesJefferson, Bullitt, Oldham Shelby
StateKentucky
CountryUnited States
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Band800 MHz
TypeProject 25 Phase I
ID1A6
WACNBEE00
NAC1A0
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KKV802, WPJV652, WPJV653, WQLL852, WQLL853, WQPE780
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Overview

On September 2, 2005 a multi-millon dollar emergency communications project began. This project will allow police, fire and emergency medical services in Louisville and the surrounding counties to communicate with one another.

Housed at 510 East Liberty St. Louisville, KY. dispatchers for Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Services are now located in one facility, thereby,making it faster for first responders to reach any emergency situation. Equipped with the state-of-the-art technology and equipment, and trained staff, Louisville Metro Government MetroSafe stands ready to quickly handle any emergency condition that may arise.


The Future of MetroSafe

To better respond to emergencies in a post 9/11 world, Louisville is investing in a $70 million-plus, state-of-the-art emergency communications network . This system will connect thousands of emergency responders throughout the region. The second phase is now complete, and work will begin soon on the implementing the new 800 MHz P25 digital radio system.

For the first time ever, MetroSafe will link communications for 911, the Louisville Metro Police Department, the Louisville Fire Department, Suburban Fire Districts, Local Government Radio, and Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services. In addition, MetroSafe will offer enhanced communication for all of the remaining 911 public safety answering points, or physical locations where 911 calls are received: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, suburban city agencies within Louisville Metro and the 13 counties surrounding Jefferson county.


October 2009 Update

Combine all public safety communications into one facility (Completed) Implement new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system (Completed) Remediation of permanent MetroSafe facility and migration of operations (Completed) Some of the current major milestones include:

Build a facility to consolidate public safety communications (Completed) Create interoperability at the console level by use of Motorola Motobridge and new radio consoles in Fall 2005 (Completed) Co-locate existing technologies (CAD and 911 systems) in Fall 2005 (Completed) Facility remediation (410 South Fifth Street - former Federal Reserve Bank Building) (Completed) New APCO Project 25 Digital/Trunked Radio Infrastructure implementation (Beginning in October 2009) Implementation of new 911 voice infrastructure Implementation of new information technology infrastructure Implementation of new public safety Wireless technology infrastructure Migration of existing operations to permanent facility (Completed) Ongoing testing and maintenance of fail over facility (Completed) The city's plan is to design a 30 to 35 channel 10 to 15 site 800/700 MHz P25 Digital/Trunking radio infrastructure. This system would encompass up to 535 base stations. In order for them to put all public safety, local government, public works and small towns, would require up to 5,000 subscribers. They will also be using VoIP gateway technology to communicate with legacy UHF, VHF, 800MHz conventional radio systems from agencies using conventional analog infrastructures. The dispatch center will be state of the art display driven consoles with touch screen.

They also have plans to build out a 4.9GHz broadband infrastructure possibly using Mesh technology. The radio system will also be capable of being firmware flashed to 700MHz when this band becomes available in the Metro Louisville area. Obviously there are many unknowns, and funding concerns.

This System is in the late stages of testing and It is not expected to be complete until sometime in 2010.

Encryption

Following the 2020 Riots, it was mutually decided amongst the majority of Law Enforcement Agencies in Louisville/Jefferson County to encrypt radio traffic for Officer Safety.

Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD)

  • On Monday March 28, 2022 at 1000 hours local time, Louisville Metro Police Department moved all primary dispatch channel operations to alternate TAC channels while transitioning to AES encryption. Once the transition was completed, LMPD resumed normal dispatch operations on new talkgroups utilzing AES encryption. A public Broadcastify stream was setup for all four primary LMPD dispatch channels with a 15 minute delay.
    • LMPD Citied the reason for encryption as follows
      • To protect the community and the personal information of victims, suspects, witnesses, and juveniles
      • To protect tactical and investigative integrity
      • To enhance officer safety and prevent suspects from gaining a tactical advantage by listening to live incidents and investigations

Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO)

  • In 2023, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office began to encrypt radio traffic on 3 of the 4 main talk groups utilized by the agency. Their transition from unencrypted talk groups to secure talk groups followed the same pattern as LMPD. Once the transition was completed, JCSO resumed normal dispatch operations on new talkgroups utilzing AES encryption. A public Broadcastify stream was also setup by JCSO, however, they elected to only stream JCSO 1 and JCSO 4 with a 15 minute delay. See below for JCSO talk group usage
    • JCSO 1 The primary dispatch channel, utilized by deputies is fully encrypted but streamed online
    • JCSO 2 The secondary dispatch channel, primarily used during the day by the Civil Process Unit is fully encrypted and is not streamed online
    • JCSO 3 is designated to Circuit, District, Juvenile and Family Court Security Officers and is fully encrypted and is not streamed online
    • JCSO 4 is designated as the “Small Cities” dispatch channel for satellite agencies and is fully encrypted but streamed online
      • Agencies dispatched on JCSO 4 are Audubon Park , Bancroft, Heritage Creek, LMDC HIP, Hurstbourne Acres, Indian Hills, LRAA, Lyndon, Meadowvale, Middletown, Northtfield, Probation & Parole, Prospect, Strathmoor, Veterans Affairs, West Buechel, Woodlawn Park.

Bullitt County

  • On Jan 21, 2025, Bullitt County E911 transitioned from unencrypted dispatch to full-time encryption.
    • Bullitt County Sheriff Walter Sholar informed the Bullitt County Fiscal Court that for the safety of law enforcement agencies, something had to be done to eliminate the dissemination of information for crimes which are in progress. The sheriff pointed out several occasions where the safety of law enforcement officials could have been put in danger due to the information that was available to anyone with a phone. In meeting with all the police chiefs in the county, Sholar said the decision was made to secure all the channels.

It should be noted that prior to this change, all private and tactical law enforcement channels were previously encrypted, this change only added encryption to the primary countywide police dispatch channel. Bullitt County EMS and Emergency Management were also previously encrypted, and had been since the county's transition to the MetroSafe system in 2020

Simplex

  • Simplex activated on FIRE and Emergency Management radios only.
  • Frequency: 856.2625 203.5 PL

800MHz Mutual Aid

All Public Safety radios on MetroSafe have the National 800 MHz Mutual Aid frequencies. Additionally MetroSafe utilizes fixed repeaters and multiple sites on 3 of the frequencies. These repeaters can be remotely enabled or disabled as use is needed.

  • 851.0125 806.0125 156.7 PL 8CALL90 Calling (REPEATER)
  • 851.5125 806.5125 156.7 PL 8TAC91 Law Enforcement
  • 852.0125 807.0125 156.7 PL 8TAC92 Fire (REPEATER)
  • 852.5125 807.5125 156.7 PL 8TAC93 Medical (REPEATER)
  • 853.0125 808.0125 156.7 PL 8TAC94 Command

Talkgroup Ranges

  • 1-199 - Law Enforcement (Metro PD, Metro Corrections, JTown PD, Shively PD, UL PD, small suburban police)
  • 201-399 - Fire (Louisville Fire & Rescue Suburban fire departments)
  • 401-599 - Medical (Metro EMS, JCCO)
  • 601-799 - Public Service (Public Works, SWM, Facilities, EMA)
  • 801-999 - Interoperability (Event, Mutual Aid)
  • 1001-1199 - State (Reserved for future use of state agencies)
  • 1201-1399 - Federal (Reserved for future use of federal agencies)
  • 1401-1499 - Oldham County
  • 1501-1599 - Bullitt County
  • 1601-1799 - Transportation (TARC, Airport, TRIMARC)


Unidentified Talkgroups

Law Enforcement

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description Tag

  • 9 009 DE Unk Law 09 TGID 09 Law Talk
  • 10 00a DE Unk Law 10 TGID 10 Law Talk
  • 11 00b DE Unk Law 11 TGID 11 Law Talk
  • 12 00c DE Unk Law 12 TGID 12 Law Talk
  • 13 00d DE Unk Law 13 TGID 13 Law Talk
  • 14 00e DE Unk Law 14 TGID 14 Law Talk
  • 15 00f DE Unk Law 15 TGID 15 Law Talk
  • 16 010 DE Unk Law 16 TGID 16 Law Talk
  • 17 011 DE Unk Law 17 TGID 17 Law Talk
  • 18 012 DE Unk Law 18 TGID 18 Law Talk
  • 19 013 D Unk Law 19 TGID 19 Law Talk
  • 20 014 DE Unk Law 20 TGID 20 Law Talk
  • 21 015 DE Unk Law 21 TGID 21 Law Talk
  • 22 016 DE Unk Law 22 TGID 22 Law Talk
  • 23 017 DE Unk Law 23 TGID 23 Law Talk
  • 24 018 DE Unk Law 24 TGID 24 Law Talk
  • 25 019 DE Unk Law 25 TGID 25 Law Talk
  • 26 01a DE Unk Law 26 TGID 26 Law Talk
  • 27 01b DE Unk Law 27 TGID 27 Law Talk
  • 28 01c DE Unk Law 28 TGID 28 Law Talk
  • 29 01d DE Unk Law 29 TGID 29 Law Talk
  • 30 01e D Unk Law 30 TGID 30 Law Talk
  • 34 022 DE Unk Law 34 TGID 34 Law Talk
  • 35 023 DE Unk Law 35 TGID 35 Law Talk
  • 37 025 DE Unk Law 37 TGID 37 Law Talk
  • 38 026 DE Unk Law 38 TGID 38 Law Talk
  • 39 027 DE Unk Law 39 TGID 39 Law Talk
  • 42 02a DE Unk Law 42 TGID 42 Law Talk
  • 44 02c DE Unk Law 44 TGID 44 Law Talk
  • 48 030 DE Unk Law 48 TGID 48 Law Talk
  • 49 031 DE Unk Law 49 TGID 49 Law Talk
  • 50 032 DE Unk Law 50 TGID 50 Law Talk
  • 55 037 DE Unk Law 55 TGID 55 Law Talk

MotoBridge Agencies

Note: Several agencies have been removed from this list due to them now using the MetroSafe TRS for full time operations.

  • Clark County (IN) Sheriff
  • Floyd County (IN) Sheriff
  • Harrison County (IN) Sheriff
  • Henry County Sheriff
  • Indiana State Police
  • Kentucky State Police
  • Shelby County Sheriff
  • Spencer County Sheriff
  • Washington County (IN) Sheriff

Tower Locations

Location of Tower FCC License Sites
Delta Dental@9901 Linn Station Road KKV802-Site 6/WPJV652-Site 2/WPJV653-Site 2
Fern Creek FD Station 2@9409 Bardstown Road WQLL853-Site 1
Waverly Park@4800 Waverly Park Drive KKV802-Site 8/WPJV652-Site 3
Meidinger Tower@462 South 4th Street KKV802-Site 7/WPJV652-Site 1
Watterson Lake Park@Old Manslick Road and I-264 WQLL852-Site 2
St. Matthews FD Station 2@4400 Brownsboro Road WQLL853-Site 3
Petersburg@4601 Old Shepherdsville Road WQLL853-Site 6
Utica@807 Charlestown Road Utica (IN) WPJV653-Site 1/WQLL852-Site 1
I-71 at County Line@Hitt Lane and Ballardsville Road WQLL853-Site 4
Hopewell@13815 New Hopewell Road and I-265 WQLL853-Site 2
Mitchell Hill@11807 Mitchell Hill Road WQLL853-Site 5
Tower@1306 Bardstown Road KKV802-Site 9

 



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