![]() All fire and EMS departments will have new radios by October.Īre you a millionaire? $1M Powerball ticket sold at NJ Wawa All of Montgomery County's police departments will have new radios by the end of September. ![]() ![]() The next police departments to receive the new Motorola radios are Cheltenham and Montgomery Township, officials said. "We are in a much better place right now." "It is irresponsible if you use technology that out of date," Talbot said at a news conference unveiling the new radios Wednesday. Thirty new or improved antennas are also being erected at locations spread out across Montgomery County to improve coverage for first responders. They are an integral part of a $36 million overhaul to the county emergency radio dispatch system. The 75 handheld radios and 14 mobile devices for Norristown are the first of 4,700 that will eventually be given out to every police, fire and EMS department in Pennsylvania's third-most populous county. That changed this week when the borough became the first in Montgomery County to receive a new batch of the expensive equipment. Some officers held their all-valuable communications device together with rubber bands as many of the department's radios were bought back in the late 1990s. The condition of the radios used by police in Norristown became downright "irresponsible" in recent years, according to Chief Mark Talbot.
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