Westmoreland County (PA) Public Safety

This page contains copious notes on the Westmoreland County digital trunked system. Some of these notes were originally posted to the database page for the trunked system, To make that page cleaner and to allow for other users to keep this information up to date, all notes have been moved to the wikie page.

To return to the database page for this trunked system, go here:

NOTE: "Mutual Aid" is the NAME of the dispatching service, not the general term for emergency services assisting one another.

• The following TGs can be encrypted:
  • Police TAC-4 (all districts)
  • Police TAC-5 (all districts)
  • Countywide Law Enforcement 8
  • Countywide Law Enforcement 9
  • Countywide TAC-14
  • Countywide TAC-15
  • The SECURE channels for each PD district
  • Police "Dx Administration" (all districts)
  • All "Public Safety" channels

• FIRE TACs 3,4,5 are for major incidents (structure fires and such)
• FIRE TACs 6,7,8 are for average incidents (car fires, accidents, Etc.)
• FIRE TACs 9,10,11 are for minor incidents (CO alarms, wires down, Etc.)