Henderson County completed a long and vital project last week when Commissioner's Court accepted the fifth tower in the County's new communication system.
The folks from Harris have sold the County a bill of goods.
The mystery of why a rural county would agree to a 7 million dollar radio system without researching other options (TXWARN) which is already in operation in the County which a simple purchase of the radio equipment and programming would have already been up and running.
The fact that Harris and those who were sold this bill of goods (Henderson County) agreed to fully encrypt all of these communications is even more suspect.
When a Rural County decides to encrypt all communications including basic dispatch channels, what exactly is it they want to hide?
Kaufman County switched to a much needed P25 type 2 system a few years back and after 1 year, they were fully operational without encryption.
Let's ask Kaufman County why they decided to go non encrypted?
So the average folks committing crimes who (they) think are listening have actually taken the time to spend 800 dollars on a p25 capable scanner, figured out how to program these intricate and expensive devices and showed up at crime scenes to hear all the action is further proof that there are no valid reasons why a Texas County would want to hide expensive communications from the public.
Encrypt the sensitive or surveillance channels if you must but allow those of us to know what's going on in our Community.
Allow the Dispatch channels to remain in the clear.
The folks from Harris have sold the County a bill of goods.
The mystery of why a rural county would agree to a 7 million dollar radio system without researching other options (TXWARN) which is already in operation in the County which a simple purchase of the radio equipment and programming would have already been up and running.
The fact that Harris and those who were sold this bill of goods (Henderson County) agreed to fully encrypt all of these communications is even more suspect.
When a Rural County decides to encrypt all communications including basic dispatch channels, what exactly is it they want to hide?
Kaufman County switched to a much needed P25 type 2 system a few years back and after 1 year, they were fully operational without encryption.
Let's ask Kaufman County why they decided to go non encrypted?
So the average folks committing crimes who (they) think are listening have actually taken the time to spend 800 dollars on a p25 capable scanner, figured out how to program these intricate and expensive devices and showed up at crime scenes to hear all the action is further proof that there are no valid reasons why a Texas County would want to hide expensive communications from the public.
Encrypt the sensitive or surveillance channels if you must but allow those of us to know what's going on in our Community.
Allow the Dispatch channels to remain in the clear.