Zanesville Police Department starts new Radio System

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – For everyone with silent analog scanners, the Zanesville Police Department has switched communication methods.

Zanesville Police Department has officially switched to the Multi-Agency Radio Communication System commonly known as M.A.R.C.S. This is a radio and data network system for public safety providers and first responders in Ohio. Chief Tony Coury said M.A.R.C.S. gives them access to working with other agencies throughout the state just by a switch in their dial.

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“We are now able to communicate with each other very clearly,” Coury said. “Whether we’re you know just on the other side of the river, or you know we’re in another county and we can be as far from here as Lake Erie.”

The switch to M.A.R.C.S. has been a two-year process and according to Coury the City of Zanesville only had to pay for a small portion of the equipment and installation.

“The city has invested some money into the dispatch center as far as antennas and getting just some minor equipment,” Coury said. “All of 50 plus radios were donated to us by the Ohio State Highway Patrol [Zanesville Post].”

The radio’s were donated last June and now the police cruisers are being set up with the M.A.R.C.S. Radios.

For more information on the donated radios follow the shortcut below.

https://www.whiznews.com/2016/06/highway-patrol-donates-radios-to-zanesville-police/