WPD Officers Get New Radios

Warsaw Police Department officers have received new portable two-way radios that improve their ability to communicate. A $35,823 grant from the Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation enabled the department to purchase the radios. Some of the radios they replace were more than a decade old. Warsaw Police Lieutenant Kip Shuter says the new radios enable officers to communicate from places the old ones didn’t work, including the local hospital and Warsaw Community High School. Although the new radios provide officers with digital capabilities, Shuter says citizens who have police scanner receivers in their homes will still be able to monitor officers’ transmissions on the same frequencies previously used.