Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium (CNYICC)
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The Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium is a planned multi-county APCO Project 25 complainant project designed to function as "interoperable land mobile radio communications system, one that immediately supports Fire, EMS and Law Enforcement, and whose design will support others, such as highway, schools, water, and other vital utility and service functions." Currently the Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System (OCICS) is the only segment online and in everyday use.
Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System
The Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System is a 15 site Motorola APCO P25 simulcast trunked radio system, currently 13 frequency pairs are available for voice communication. Testing of the system began in late 2009 and the Syracuse Police Department became the first agency to go live on the system on February 2, 2010. Onondaga county police agencies followed a month later, with county Fire and EMS agencies approximately two months later. The City of Syracuse Fire Department was the last county public safety agency to switch over to the system in June of 2010. Currently all public safety radio operations for Onondaga County are conducted on this system, with the exception of Rural/Metro Medical Services (the primary EMS provider for the city of Syracuse) and TLC Ambulance (which conducts limited EMS operations in the entire county) both of whom retain their own private VHF radio communications independent of the 911 Center.
Day to Day Operation
Police agencies on the system are dispatched from dedicated area talkgroups (3 for county police agencies, and 2 for Syracuse city police). Lager scale events (hostage situations, Chases, etc.) are often moved from one of area talkgroups to "Channel 1" (TG 31 for the City of Syracuse, TG45 for the county) to avoid disruption of routine dispatch operations. Additional tactical channels are assigned as needed.
County Fire and EMS are dispatched from talkgroups 1 and 7 respectively. Events that are anticipated to require a dedicated operations channel are assigned a one of 10 'tact' channels in the following order: 3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,2. Tact-2 (TG 2) is reserved for communications for events not requiring the assignment of a dedicated talkgroup, and as such is assigned last.