WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Regional News / Mid West WA
Nov 04, 2009 12:39pm

More than 50 police vehicles across Western Australia's mid-west/Gascoyne are soon to be fitted with new devices which give officers instant access to the police database.

For a month now, Geraldton officers have been using five hand-held TADISLite units which allow them to access the details of individuals and vehicles.

Superintendent Ross Tomasini has praised the devices which are also equipped with a global satellite positioning system to track officers' locations.

"So it allows officers I suppose from a profiling perspective to know exactly who they're talking to, they have the capacity to provide photographs of people, they have the capacity for vehicle's details, individuals details, outstanding warrants and inquiries and we're seeing some significant returns," he said.

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Not long till Gero goes digital!

Is country tadis on police frequencies or Next G?

Isn't it on Next G?

great now AVL is the in the bush as well, cant escape from it...

Yep rob it runs on Next G

Hardware platform is a Motorola/Symbol MC75

http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Mobile+Computers/Handheld+Computers/MC75_US-EN

Will be interesting to see how much data they consume. Also has GPS back to base as well.

The ones we use are MC35, they are only GSM and on our standard job pick up and delivery application it uses about 7-10mb per month. Next G means more speed and faster to consume data allowance.

a while back 14 cars were fitted out with full TADIS in them but instead of the AVL modem they would use in the city a NextG modem was used.

Trial worked well, down fall is that they once again rely on someone elses network and if something fails its out of there hands.

ooohhhh Country Digital is sooo close i can smell it. feel sorry for Broome, Karratha and Gero residents

i miss the good ol day's somethimes.