Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management Radio Tower Site # 1 CAMERON COUNTY - WEST Existing - 7 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System Radio Tower Site # 3 BROWNSVILLE Existing - 14 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System Radio Tower Site # 4 HARLINGEN Existing - 9 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System Radio Tower Site # 2 CAMERON COUNTY - EAST Existing - 5 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System 800 MHZ RADIO SYSTEMS Currently in use by all City and County Agencies County Wide BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE # 1 # 2 # 3 # 4

Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management INSTALLATION Install VHF ”Texas Law 2” at all 4 tower sites Install VHF ”Texas Law 3” at all 4 tower sites install “8CALL” NPSPAC repeater at the centralized Cameron County West (CCW) site # 1 Install “8TAC1” NPSPAC repeater at site # 1 Install “8TAC2” NPSPAC repeater at site # 2 Install “8TAC 3” NPSPAC repeater at site # 3 Install “8TAC4” NPSPAC repeater at site # 4 Interface to each PSAP console in each coverage area Add additional interoperability radios to each of the 4 tower sites as funding becomes available RADIO SYSTEMS TO LEVEL 4 ADD STATE AND FEDERAL REQUIRED VHF / 800 RADIOS WIRELINE TO CONSOLES AT 9 PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINTS PER TICP BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE # 1 # 4 # 3 # 2 EQUIPMENT Almost all mobile, portable and base station radio (over 2800 radio units) from all city and county entities (Sheriff, Police, Fire, Ems, Public Works, Etc) have been replaced by 800 MHZ Smartnet radios to join the Cameron County - Public Safety Communications Network. Each radio has been pre- programmed with all 5 NPSPAC interoperability repeater channels. Each PSAP will be equipped with a console wireline control to the NPSPAC repeater in its area Each PSAP will be equipped with a wireline control to the “8CALL” NPSPAC repeater at the Centralized Site # 1 Each PSAP will be equipped with a wireline control to vhf “Texas Law 2” site in its area Each PSAP will be equipped with a wireline control to vhf ”Texas Law 3” site in its area

Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management RADIO SITE # 1 CAMERON COUNTY - WEST Existing - 7 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System ADD 1 – “Texas law 2” T2/2R base to mobile / base to base VHF Calling Channel and 1 – “8CALL” NPSPAC 800 MHZ Calling Channel repeater for County wide use (NOT FOR PATCH) 1 – “Texas Law 3” tactical base and 1 – “8TAC1” NPSPAC tactical repeater (FOR CONSOLE PATCH) RADIO SITE # 3 BROWNSVILLE Existing - 14 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System Add 1 – “TEXAS LAW 2” base to mobile / base to base VHF Calling Channel base (NOT FOR PATCH) 1 – “Texas Law 3” tactical base and 1 – “8TAC3” NPSPAC tactical repeater (FOR CONSOLE PATCH) RADIO TOWER SITE # 4 HARLINGEN Existing - 9 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System Add 1 – “TEXAS LAW 2” base to mobile / base to base VHF Calling Channel base (NOT FOR PATCH) 1 – “Texas Law 3” tactical base and 1 – “8TAC4” NPSPAC tactical repeater (FOR CONSOLE PATCH) RADIO SITE # 2 CAMERON COUNTY - EAST Existing - 5 Channel Motorola Public Safety Trunking System Add 1 – “TEXAS LAW 2” base to mobile / base to base VHF Calling Channel base (NOT FOR PATCH) 1 – “Texas Law 3” tactical base and 1 – “8TAC2” NPSPAC tactical repeater (FOR CONSOLE PATCH) RADIO SYSTEMS TO LEVEL 4 ADD STATE AND FEDERAL REQUIRED VHF / 800 RADIOS WIRELINE TO CONSOLES AT 9 PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINTS PER TICP BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE

Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management RADIO SYSTEMS TO LEVEL 4 City - County - State - Federal VHF / 800 Radio Interoperability Monitored and Managed by Dispatchers at 9 Public Safety Answering Points In Cameron County Base on the TICP MOU BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE # 1 # 4 # 3 # 2 OPERATION Dispatcher at any PSAP receives a Base Station, Mobile or Portable Radio call from any 800 user on “8CALL” or any VHF user on “Texas Law 2”. Dispatcher instructs 800 users to go to “8TAC1”, “8TAC2”, “8TAC3” OR “8TAC4” depending on the geographic area of the emergency event. Dispatcher instructs each VHF user to go to “Texas Law 3” for the emergency event. Dispatcher will patch “8TAC1”, “8TAC2”, “8TAC3” OR “8TAC4” to “Texas Law 3” for interoperability in the coverage area during the emergency event. Dispatchers will not patch “8CALL” or “TEXAS LAW 2” to any channel. These are set aside as calling channels only. The dispatcher will disable the patch at the end of each emergency event to help eliminate possible interference issues.

Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management CEB # 4 - HARL PSAP 5 - T1 TERMINATION CEB # 1 - CCSO PSAP 3 - T1 TERMINATION RADIO SITE # 3 CEB # 3 - BRNS PSAP 1 - T1 TERMINATION S. PADRE ISLAND PSAP 1 - T1 TERMINATION HEMS DISPATCH 1 - T1 TERMINATION HARL PD 1 - T1 TERMINATION PORT ISABEL PSAP 1 - T1 TERMINATION T1 / MICROWAVE REQUIREMENTS 5 - EXISTING T1 LINE RADIO SITE # T1 TERMINATION RADIO SITE # T1 TERMINATION RADIO SITE # T1 TERMINATION 9 - NEW T1 LINE LOS FRESNOS PSAP 1 T1 - TERMINATION LA FERIA PSAP 1 - T1 TERMINATION SAN BENITO PSAP 1 T1 - TERMINATION BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE

Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management RADIO SYSTEMS - LEVEL 4 EVENT BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE # 1 # 4 # 3 # 2 BUILDING COLLAPSE FROM HURRICANE AT SPI WESLACO FIRE CALLING HARLINGEN FIRE ON TX LAW 2. NOTIFY SPI DISPATCH WE ARE IN ROUTE TO SPI FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE PHARR POLICE CALLING CAMERON COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT. ON TX LAW 2. NOTIFY SPI DISPATCH OR INCIDENT COMMAND, WE ARE IN ROUTE TO SPI FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE LOS FRESNOS POLICE CALLING SPI DISPATCH ON 8CALL. NOTIFY SPI INCIDENT COMMAND, WE ARE IN ROUTE TO SPI AND READY FOR ANY ASSIGNMENT WILLACY COUNTY SO CALLING CC SO ON TX LAW 2. NOTIFY SPI DISPATCH WE ARE IN ROUTE CC SO TO ALL ON TX LAW 2. BE ADVISED THAT ALL SPI EVENT TRAFFIC WILL BE COORDINATED ON TX LAW 3 ON SCENE BY INCIDENT COMMANDER CC SO TO ALL ON 8CALL. BE ADVISED THAT ALL SPI EVENT TRAFFIC WILL BE COORDINATED ON 8TAC2 ON SCENE BY INCIDENT COMMANDER HARLINGEN EMS TO SPI INCIDENT COMMAND ON 8TAC2 BE ADVISED WE ARE ON SCENE AND AVAILABLE SPI INCIDENT COMMAND TO SPI DISPATCH CENTER. PLEASE PATCH 8TAC2 TO VHF TX LAW 3 FOR THE DURATION OF THIS EMERGENCY EVENT MCALLEN FIRE TO SPI DISPATCH ON 8CALL WE ARE IN ROUTE, ETA 60 MINUTES PLEASE CONFIRM TACTICAL CHANNEL IN YOUR AREA. HARLINGEN FIRE RESCUE ONE ON 8CALL IN ROUTE TO SPI DPS AND GOVERNER PERRY ON TX LAW 2. ON SCENE AND AVAILABLE

Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE

Cameron County - Office of Emergency Management BORDER PROTECTION INITIATIVE FUNDING