For the first time the majority of the county’s public safety and public service organizations are united on a single state-of-the-art network and enjoy a 55-agency communications cooperative.

The PCWIN radio network incorporates standards-based Project 25, phase II digital technology.

And for simple pleasures, there's incomparable hiking and camping.

In 2008, a 25-year-old man led police and sheriff’s deputies on a zig-zag car chase that began on the northwest side of Tucson and ended on Mount Lemmon, with one Tucson Police officer fatally wounded and two Pima County Sheriff’s deputies injured.

This highly robust system expands our County’s radio transmission capacity, extends radio coverage to some of the most remote parts of Pima County, and enhances the reliability of voice radio transmissions for its users.

Radio calls are clearer and more understandable-especially inside buildings, a major limitation for the legacy systems.

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