The Municipal Police Amorebieta now connected to a TETRA technology network

Since last Saturday the Municipal Police Etxano Amorebieta are using the new TETRA nework. It allows the police to access the databases of other police forces and the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) and hear "immediately" any history or irregularity of a subject.

In addition, it enables internal communication between municipal own Amorebieta, and external coordination with other local bodies, as well as the Ertzaintza and other emergency services. This all with better audio quality, privacy and confidentiality", explained yesterday Mayor David Latxaga. Thus, Amorebieta is added to the 25 municipalities of Euskadi already working with this digital radio transmission system, among which are Durango and Gernika.

The use of this new technology is part of a cooperation agreement on police coordination and cooperation signed last November between the City of Amorebieta and the Basque Government. For now, the Municipal Police and has nine radios and a base station placed at the head office. However, the Consistory expected that within one month each of the twenty agents operating in the municipality has its own terminal.
'We released the devices this weekend checking documentation and the result was satisfactory a hundred percent, "admitted the head of the body, Josu Almazan. The purchase and adaptation of this system, will cost 18,000 euros.

Through these devices, agents can access the databases Traffic and Ertzaintza, something the agents' is a priority, "explained the director to coordinate the local police of the Basque Government, Javier Sanchez. "While you are performing a breath test a person can know if you have any other requests pending, or if, for example, has a restraining order and is in a limited area for this individual," he said .

They can have the data stored at both the Tax Office as well as other police forces, both state, as the National Police and Civil Guard, as autonomous, and even Europeans, through the Schengen area.

During these early days the local agents are conducting "verification of coverage in different areas of the municipality, to map transmission of voice," explained Joshua Almazan.

Source: www.elcorreo.com