FPS vs Contract Protection Re: [FedCom] FPS Callsigns?

[Ken]

Thanks Rod:

Now I know at the Springfield (MA) federal building the FPS is a contracted 
out.  I think that depending upon how large the facilities are there's 1 or 
2 FPS civil service officers assigned, actually as overall contract 
managers/supervisors & also they do some random patrols & are there for any 
special problems (e.g. demonstrations)... Additionally, the smaller 
facilities don't have a full time FPS officer but there's an area supervisor 
who visits the contract protected facilitiy .  Also I think that security 
alarm responses are primarily the local PD's responsibilities with FPS 
officer response only if there's a problem found.....  If there's a federal 
court in the same federal building than the US Marshal's Service provides 
security for the courts.

It would be interesting to see what one of those mega dispatch/control 
centers look like.  I think that they are also contracted facilitiy/service 
rather than all FPS employees but I might be wrong!

Ken



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rod jones" <rj_721 at yahoo.com>
To: <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] FPS Callsigns?


> In Atlanta I hear the contract Security units use 4Gxxx (4 is Region 4, G 
> I assume is an alpha
> character used to ID the group assignment, and the xxx is a 3 digit unit 
> number). So your 1V9 fits
> into that scheme, Ken.