FON Redondo Beach Public Safety Fair and Police Department Open House

October 5th, 2003

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Public Safety Fair & Police Department Open House The event took place at the Redondo Beach Civic Center at 401 Diamond Street. There was a lot of activities for the kids and plenty of friendly public safety folks demonstrating equipment specific to their duties. Oh, there were free hot dogs and soda pop too.	Crisis Negotiation Team "Throw Phone" The Crisis Negotiation Team had a throw phone on display. The phone looks like a typical AT&T Princess telephone mounted in a heavy duty plastic case.

Crisis Negotiation Team "Throw Phone" On the negotiators end of the cable is this console.	Crisis Negotiation Team "Throw Phone" The throw phone end of the cable is connected to about 50' of cable that is typical of a telephone booth cable. The rest of the cable appears to be several hundred feet of standard flat telephone cable.

Special Weapons And Tactics The SWAT team had several of their weapons and other assorted tools on display.	HK MP5 One of the SWAT team members demonstrates their HK MP5 submachine guns to Karen. These compact, highly accurate weapons are only sold to military and law enforcement. It's feared by bad guys world round. Karen commented that some of the people attending the event might be bad guys checking out what they are up against...a lot, that's what they are up against.

HK MP5 Tracy is enjoying this just a little too much. The sight is not a laser like you see in movies but an image similar to the heads up display on fighter jets. There are no little red dots bouncing off walls to give the location of the officers away to the bad guys. The officer puts the dot within the circle where he wants the bullet to go and presses the trigger.	Patrol Car

VIP Patrol Car Volunteers In Patrol	Traffic Car On display was one of Redondo Beachs new traffic cars. Each patrol and traffic car has a voice radio and a Mobile Data Computer (MDC) radio. The MDC allows officers to send and receive information about a call.

Traffic Car Tracy at the wheel of the traffic car.	Mobile Data Computer The device to the right of the steering wheel is a mobile data computer (MDC). The voice radios and a radio scanner sit between the driver and passenger seats.

Truck 61	Truck 61

Truck 61	Truck 61 Oxygen Tanks

Truck 61 Gear	Truck 61 Ventilation Fans

Truck 61 Ladder	Truck 61

Truck 61	Truck 61

Communications Center This is one of the entry ways to the Communications Center "dungeon".	Police Department front desk From this station communications can be made with both dispatch and police officers in the field.

Radios for swing shift	Jail cell Notice the short telephone cable. Folks who end up in the cells don't usually want to be there and suicide may cross their mind as a way out. It is difficult to hang yourself with a 1' telephone cord.

Dispatch center The station at the back right (center of this photo) is where 911 and other emergency calls are received. This operator will enter the details of the call which will show up at the top of the police and fire dispatcher screens. The station at the left is dispatching fire while the station at the right is dispatching police. Once a call is dispatched it will drop to the bottom half of the screen showing it as being in progress.	EOCC This is the Emergency Operations Communication Center. A "war room" map sits on the conference table as well as other city maps along the back wall.

Plug in During incidents people can plug into these ceiling mounted plugs to monitor police or fire without disturbing others.	EOCC radio console Radio communications with city police and fire as well as neighboring agencies can be at these consoles.

Links of Interest

www.redondo.org Official city of Redondo Beach website.

Redondo Beach radio frequencies by Freq Of Nature

www.hecklerkoch-usa.com Heckler & Koch, makers of the MP5 submachine gun.