“ The most threatened president in U.S. history, right? And we’re told the Secret Service radios are not on the same frequency as the local police who we are told are working in conjunction with the Secret Service. “
I wouldn’t doubt that part. Whenever we ended up on a multi jurisdictional incident, we had to send people to a command post so that the different divisions could communicate with one another. Sometimes it ended up being more of a game of Telephone than anything.
We had no way to program in another’s frequency even if we knew it.
Right. Until the cell phones are down or you're in a venue with zero or spotty coverage.
Even cheap, off the shelf VHF/UHF radios are easily programable.
By the way, incidents or events that would require multi jurisdictional agencies to be involved, should never be an excuse for not being able to communicate with each other. With the technology we have today, that’s ridicules.