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Durham Region Information/Overview

Durham Region

Durham Region is located in the area generally referred to as South-Central Ontario. It is bordered by Toronto to the west, Northumberland County to the east, York Region to the north, and Lake Ontario to the south.

Public Safety

Most policing of Durham Region is done by the Durham Regional Police Services. They are dispatched from the 17 Division Headquarters in Oshawa. They are using a radio system that is not monitorable by any scanner.

The Ontario Provincial Police is responsible for the patrol of the 400 series highways and provincial controlled highways, like highway 7. They are dispatched from the Orillia Comm Centre on the Fleetnet.

Fire Service is provided by each municipality within Durham Region. The southern region uses the Durham Region Motorola System, while the northern townships use the Fleetnet system.

Ontario Provincial Police

The Ontario Provincial Police use the Bell Mobility Fleetnet Zone 1 system for most of their communications. All communications on the Operational Talkgroups are APCO25. Interagency talkgroups are generally analog but are rarely used. The OPP also make use of analog mobile repeaters and wide area analog repeaters for portable coverage.

The Whitby detachment patrols the highways within Durham Region and services the Manvers Township area.

They are active on the following digital APCO25 talkgroups:

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description
8656	21d	D	OPP 1OPS38	Aurora 5B -1OPS38 (5A- RHQ )
8672	21e	D	OPP 1OPS39	Burlington 5C - 1OPS39
8704	220	D	OPP 1OPS41	Cambridge 5E - 1OPS41
8720	221	D	OPP 1OPS42	Toronto 5F - 1OPS42
8736	222	D	OPP 1OPS43	Niagara Region 5G - 1OPS43
8752	223	D	OPP 1OPS44	Mississauga 5I - 1OPS44
8768	224	D	OPP 1OPS45	Whitby 5K - 1OPS45
8784	225	D	OPP 1OPS46	Aurora 5L - 1OPS46 Highway 407 ETR
8800	226	D	OPP 1OPS47	1OPS47
8816	227	D	OPP 1OPS48	1OPS48
8832	228	D	OPP 1OPS49	1OPS49

During normal operations, the Orillia Comm Centre will patch two talkgroups together. The following patches are usually in place on the system:

The Whitby and Toronto talkgroups are usually patched together, along with the Toronto MTO Enforcement talkgroup.

Special Operations and Events will be found on the Tactical talkgroups. Orillia Comm Centre is assigned 1TAC04 - 1TAC08.

Soft ID's for GTR/Durham Region

5Alpha - Orillia Region Headquarter Units
5Foxtrot - Toronto Units
5Kilo - Whitby Units

Most communications can be heard on the Whitby Site, while Pontypool Site is used on the eastern portion and Sunderland Site for the northern portion:

Site	Name	Freqs
037 (25)	Whitby 37WHIT	141.390000	142.050000c	142.290000	142.335000	142.830000	143.145000c

Site	Name	Freqs
038 (26)	Pontypool 38PONT	141.495000	141.705000c	142.590000c	142.890000	143.055000	143.265000

Site	Name	Freqs
026 (1A)	Sunderland 26SUND	141.450000	141.720000	142.320000	142.650000a	142.860000	143.100000c	143.280000

If you do not have a digital scanner, it is sometimes possible to still listen to the OPP using one of their mobile analog repeaters (VR 01, VR02 or VR03) or a wide area analog repeater (BEAT 01, BEAT 02 or URBAN).

The mobile and wide area analog repeater frequencies can be found on the Fleetnet Conventional Frequencies Page.

The mobile repeater channel VR01 is the main channel for all mobile repeaters in Durham Region.

VR02 is used by the Highway Safety Division units which patrol Highway 401.

VR03 is used for special events and for aircraft intercepts.

Trunking Data

Durham Region

Codes/Units/Station Lists

Durham EMS Apparatus Listing

3004 3100 3101 3111 3112 3113 3116 3117 3118 3120 3121 3122 3123 3125 3127 3128 3150 3151 3152 3153 3154 3157 3158 3162 3164 3165 3167 3193 3237 3259 3265 3289 3290 3299 3325 3344 3346 3388 3389 3390 3391 3517

Durham Fire Codes

List of Codes used by Durham Region Fire Departments

4 Open Door

5 Working Fire

6 Time of arrival

7 Assistance required

8 Arrived

9 Time of return

10 Lay a line

11 Medical call

17 ID of Incident commander

22 Hold all extra units

30 Possible Suicide

33 Arson 45 Fatality

50 Vehicle problems

53 Vehicle refuel

60 Contact by phone RED Chemical/Dangerous goods ORANGE Overdose -or- Use Caution Due to Intoxicated Person(s) at Scene

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 If you do not have a digital scanner, it is sometimes possible to still listen to the OPP using one of their mobile analog repeaters (VR 01, VR02 or VR03) or a wide area analog repeater (BEAT 01, BEAT 02 or URBAN).