Room for improvement on the use of TETRA in Uruguay
Last year, the Metropolitan police of Montevideo received a basic course to understand the TETRA system capabilities. Therefore not all of the TETRA specific applications are not used today. "Many police officers still use the radio just like they use the
In December 2010, the Home Office in Uruguay decided to buy directly a new TETRA communication system for the Highway Patrol and Fire. In the first instance, the digital network of the Ministry of Interior worked only in the Metropolitan Area (Montevideo, Canelones and San Jose) and then spread to the rest of the country.
The system was implemented in 2012 and it now allows the Unified Command Center to identify, among other functions, which are the closest patrol to the scene reported using GPS and maps georeferencing to send the Highway Patrol and Fire services promptly to the area. In the past, this was not possible as these kind of communications was not coordinated as these services only used mobile phones.
Last year, the Metropolitan police of Montevideo received a basic course to understand the TETRA system capabilities. Therefore not all of the TETRA specific applications are not used today. "Many police officers still use the radio just like they use their mobile phones".
According to police, there is scope for better police capitation on TETRA and in the coming months the police will develop courses to learn about the other possibilities of the system.
Source: MCCResources
