There are 3000 police users of the system, and an additional 2000-3000 county government users. The police use status messaging. Twenty frequencies were obtained for the police, but then the county government wanted to get on the system because the government did not want two independent systems. There are six repeater sites. The county experiences bleed-in from smaller private 800 MHz licensees.
Interference also occurs from a newly-installed cellular tower.
Officers and dispatchers are used to a system where they got 'air' immediately. No failures on computers. If one were to fail, the department would transfer to the other. The department could also go to what is known as Global Bypass. After this level of redundancy, the department could use their mutual aid channels, which are 800 MHz frequencies independent of the trunked system.