Wynne Police Department
Public calls for service ring at the county PSAP located at the Sheriff’s Office in Wynne. The lone dispatcher at this PSAP is simultaneously handling multiple agencies [¹] on multiple communications systems.
Radio traffic includes a mixture of 10 codes and plain English. The Arkansas State Police phonetic alphabet is used
The communications center answers to “dispatch,” “S.O.,” or “county.” Wynne police officers use 100 series callsigns.
The Wynne Police Department and Cross County Sheriff’s Office share a talkgroup. Requests for services are dispatched to the appropriate agency, depending on the location of the request, by making a general call to either “city” or “county.” A Wynne PD officer or CCSO deputy will then answer, and the details of the call are given.
The Wynne Police station has its own non-emergency number and administrative personnel who are there during normal business hours, and who have the capability to dispatch calls independent of the PSAP.
The Wynne Police Department is dispatching on the county’s MOTOTRBO DMR system, operating under FCC callsign WRNZ321. The antenna is 120 feet above the ground on a free-standing tower on Baptist Youth Camp Road.
Because this is a DMR system that uses TDMA, it has the built-in capability to support two talkgroups. I’m surprised the second talkgroup isn’t regularly being used for something.
1. The agencies this single dispatcher is fielding calls for include the Cross County Sheriff’s Office, Wynne Police, Wynne Fire, Cherry Valley Police, Cherry Valley Fire, Vanndale Fire, and Hickory Ridge Fire.