[FedCom] Question for the Group: "Who watches the Watchers?"

[Ken]

Well most local PD's do the exact same thing (name, dob, ssan)...

BTW the vagrant issue is pretty common place in the northeast federal
building facilities.  Many of the FPO & contracted security  know the
"players" by their first/last names..  Sometimes some of them are
"mentally unstable" when they are off there medications.

My understanding is that much of the perimeter security/entry control
is now accomplished by contract security personnel rather than FPO's.
FPO's are more of a response team, investigators, & contract monitors.

There's also some simplex UHF frequencies that may be in use by 
"on site" security at the various federal buildings.

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area   

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HornSmoke" <hornsmoke at gwi.net>
To: "fedcom" <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 9:49 AM
Subject: [FedCom] Question for the Group: "Who watches the Watchers?"
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> While monitoring 417.200 yesterday (Friday), I heard an unencrypted P25 
> transmission. This is not unusual on the dispatch center's end; however, 
> almost all of the officer-end traffic is encrypted. Shamefully, someone 
> slipped up yesterday, and an officer "ran" the unencrypted information 
> of an apparent derelict/vagrant sleeping on the steps of an east coast 
> federal facility. 
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