The Sheriff’s Office does not maintain or staff a communications center.
Emergency communications for Oneida County are handled by the Department of
Emergency Services. Emergency communications were a function of
the Sheriff’s Office in the past, but when county police and fire agencies
moved to an Enhanced – 911 phone system in 1995, the communications
function was moved from the Sheriff’s Office to the Department of Emergency
Services.
The Sheriff’s Office Information Services Unit administers a county owned 800
MHz trunked EDACS radio system for Correction Facility communications. This
multi channel system offers facility-wide communications to all Correction
Officers and staff.
High band radio system frequencies licensed to the Sheriff’s Office are used by
the county 911 center to dispatch calls for service and routine communications
to all law enforcement agencies outside of the cities of Rome and Utica and the
Town of New Hartford. The Sheriff’s Office licenses several other frequencies
that are utilized for car to car, data, tactical communications and
communications between Sheriff’s patrol units, county fire department chiefs
and ambulance services
A leased, county-wide, commercial 800 MHz trunked EDACS radio system provides
police dispatch and day to day communications for the Cities of Utica and Rome
and the Town of New Harford. The
New Hartford Police Department maintains a mobile data interface on
this system and provides Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicles with mobile data and
messaging service.