Massachusetts State Police
Low
band system
Still used, but gradually being replaced by
800 MHz trunk system. Most, if not all, cruisers still have
both 800 and low band radios. It will still
be several years before the 800 Mhz
system in totally built out.
Channel Frequency Assignment
1 42.440 Statewide
2 42.340 Troop A
3 42.400 Troop C
4 42.500 Troop D
5 42.540 Car to Car,
and General Headquarters
6 42.460 Troop B
7 42.420 Radar
42.380
Team 55
units
44.740 Governor's
Auto Theft Strike Force
44.900 Governor's
Auto Theft Strike Force
159.435 MDC Quabbin Reservoir Patrols
PL for all low band channels is
141.3
State Police Codes
Code Meaning
1 Standby for Emergency (All units to stay off the air)
2 Phone your Barracks (also refers to Cell Phone capability)
3 Phone ________
4 Cruiser out of Service
5 Cruiser in Service
6 What is your Location
7 Return to your Barracks
8 Stopping suspicious Car
9 Listing (Registration Info)
10 Stolen Check
11 License Data
12 Any Message for me
13 Radio Test
14 Missing or Wanted (also known as M&W)
15 Officer In Trouble
16 Investigation (Motor
Vehicle Accident)
17 Clear
18 Permission to leave Patrol
22
Cellular
Caller
Non code lingo used by the MSP
In addition to the official
codes, the listener will often hear other, less official lingo on the MSP
system.
Here are some of the more commonly used terms.
Alternate high speed lane Break down lane. Used a bit more ironically.
BDL Break
down lane.
High roller Vehicle
traveling at high rate of speed, usually 80 MPH or faster.
Kept on marching Usually
indicates a hit and run driver or other offender that didn't stop.
Make the flip To reverse directions on limited access highways.
Off road cruiser Used on the Mass Pike, indicates
local PD unit, or SP cruiser not
assigned to the pike.
800 MHz System
The Massachusetts State Police
are currently in the process of completing construction and implementation of
an 800 MHz trunking system statewide. It is actually
several systems,
with each Troop having multiple talk
groups. Because this is a Smart Zone system, units from one troop can operate
on their own talk groups while within another troops
geographic area. For example, Talk Group
33968, which is Troop D1 and D4, is often heard on the Troop A and H trunk
system.. Below I have listed the current (February
2008) Trunk Tracker IDs. For up to date
information,
I suggest that the reader visit http://users.adelphia.net/~kc1ho/ematrunk , which is Steve
Johnson's excellent Eastern Massachusetts Trunking
System Information page.
In addition to the Mass. State
Police, there are several other 800 MHz systems listed on his site.
In addition to the 800 MHz trunk
systems, many agencies have access to the following nationwide 800 MHz
Intersystem
tactical frequencies
which are available to police, fire, and
I-TAC Call 866.0125
I-TAC 1 866.5125
I-TAC 2 867.0125
I-TAC 3 867.5125
I-TAC 4 868.0125
The Mass State Police also have
two conventional repeater frequencies and one simplex frequency in use.
The repeaters are located at
various sites in the states. The frequencies are as follows;
SP RPT-1 868.9375 141.3 Locations Vary
SP-RPT-2 868.9500 141.3 Locations Vary
DIRECT 868.9625 141.3
These repeaters are installed in
central MA, at the MWRA Quabbin Reservoir.
The State Police inherited
responsibility for patrolling this area after the merger with the MDC Police in
1992.
Frequency PL Use
854.0375 123.0 MWRA
TAC-15 (Quabbin North Repeater)
854.0375 146.2 MWRA TAC-15 (Quabbin South Repeater)
854.0375 146.2 MWRA TAC-16 (Simplex)
853.8375 146.2 MWRA TAC-14 (Watchusett Repeater)
853.8375 146.2 MWRA TAC-16 (Simplex)
Statewide Talk Groups
The MSP
is changing many of the former troop wide special
operations talk groups into state wide talk groups.
The new
listing is as follows. Other talk groups may follow
33360 SOPS
1 old SOPS 1A
33488 SOPS
2 old SOPS 1H
33712 SOPS
4 old SOPS 2B
33872 SOPS
5 old SOPS 1C
33904 SOPS
6 old SOPS 2C
34096 SOPS
7 old SOPS 1D
34128 SOPS
8 old SOPS 2D
State
Police Barracks Locations
Troop A (Metro North, Northeastern
Massachusetts )
A HQ Danvers
A-1 Andover
A-2 Newbury
A-3 Concord
A-4 Medford
A-5 Revere
A-6 Danvers
A-9 Radio Repair
A-11 Emergency Management (Framingham)
Troop H (Boston, Metro West, South West Metro)
H-1 Beacon Hill, Boston
H-2 Framingham
H-3 Foxboro
H-4 Boston
H-5 Brighton
H-6 South Boston
H-7 Milton
Troop A/H Trunk Frequencies (Greater Boston)
860.9875 Control
860.9625 Control
860.7375
860.7125
859.7125
858.9875
857.9875
857.7125
856.9625
856.7125
In
addition to these frequencies, Troop A and H cruisers can be heard on the IntelliRepeater sites listed under Troop E.
Troop
A and H Trunk Tracker IDs.
ID Use
33168 State Police Troop
A "A-PTL-1"
(North - A1, A2, A3, A6)
33200 State Police Troop A "A-PTL-2"
(South - A4, A5)
33232 State Police Troop A
"A-PTL-3" (Car to Car)
34192 State Police Troop A “GANG A”
33520 State Police Troop A "DET- A"
(Troop A BIS)
33424 State Police Troop A "TRAF-A" (Truck Team,
Registry Units)
34512 State Police Troop A
Special Services Section
34832 State Police Troop A GATSF (Governor's
Auto Theft Strike Force)
33264 State Police Troop H "H-PTL-1"
(North - H1, H4, H5, H6)
33296 State Police Troop H "H-PTL-2"
(South - H2, H3, H7)
33328 State Police Troop H "H-PTL-3"
( Car to Car)
33392 State Police Troop F "F-PTL-1" (Troop F,
33552 State Police A/H All Talk Groups
36336 Greater Boston Local Public Safety
"LOC-PS-1" (Special Events)
36368 Greater Boston Local Public Safety
"LOC-PS-2" (Special Events)
35152 Governor's Security
34672 MSP Boston CPAC (Attorney General)
34224 I-93 High Occupancy
Troop B (Western Massachusetts)
B (HQ) Northampton
B-1 Lee
B-2 Shelburne Falls
B-3 Springfield
B-4 Cheshire
B-5 Russell
B-6 Northampton
The Troop B 800 system is still
under construction. . The
area along the I-91 corridor is trunked, and
the trunk on
with some activity on
the 800 direct frequency.
Troop B Frequencies
Active;
Shelburne 860.2125 Control, 859.7375 Control , 854.9875, 858.9375, 856.4875, 858.7625
Bernardston 859.9375
Control, 858.9875 Control , 857.9375 Control,
857.4375, 856.7375, 854.9625
Future;
Goshen 860.7625, 860.2375, 859.7625,
858.4875, 857.7125
Savoy 860.9375, 859.4875,
858.9875, 858.2375, 857.4875, 856.7125, 855.4875
Monterey 859.4875, 859.2375, 858.7875,
858.4875, 858.2375, 857.4875, 856.4875
Blanford 857.7875
Montague 858.9875, 857.9375, 857.4375,
856.7375, 854.9625
Troop B Trunk Tracker IDs
33584 State Police Troop B
"B-PTL-1" B3, B6, B7
33616 State Police Troop B "B-PTL-2"
(Car to Car)
33648 State Police Troop B "B-PTL-3"
34256 State Police Troop B "SOPS 3
B"
33744 State Police Troop B “Announce”
34736 State Police Troop B "DETS B"
34640 State Police Troop B Special Services
Section
34800 State Police Troop B Narcotics
34960 State Police Troop B "B-GATSF"
(Governor's Auto Theft Strike Force)
35280 Governor’s Security
36592 Western Mass Local Public Safety
"LOC-PS-9" (Special Events, Tie to SP)
36624 Western
Mass Local Public Safety "LOC-PS-10" (Special Events)
In
addition Troop E (Turnpike) traffic will appear on the B trunk as well as the
MSP Statewide mobile to mobile talk group.
Troop C (Central
Massachusetts)
C (HQ) Holden
C-1 Athol
C-2 Milbury
C-3
C-4 Leominster
C-5 Sturbridge
C-6 Holden Substation
C-7 Belchertown - Quabbin
C-8 New Braintree Dispatch Center
C-9 Devens
Troop C Frequencies
System operates from multiple
sites, not all frequencies are at all sites. The primary site operates on the
following frequencies;
860.8375
Control
860.4625
859.3625
857.2375
856.2375
855.6125
855.1625
There are several secondary
sites, which serve to provide coverage for portable radios in areas
where they cannot reach the primary
receiver sites.
As a rule, these frequencies do
not need to be programmed into a scanner to receive Troop C traffic.
855.2125 855.3625 855.3875 855.4125 855.6625 855.6875
855.8625 855.9125 855.9375 857.2125
858.2125 858.2875 859.2125 859.2375 859.2875 859.4625
860.2125 860.2375 860.2875 860.3625
Troop C Trunk Tracker IDs
33776 State Police Troop C "C-PTL-1" C1, C4, C6, C9 Primary
33808 State Police Troop C "C-PTL-2" C1, C4, C6, C9 Secondary
33840 State Police Troop C "C-PTL-3" C2, C3, C5, C7* Primary
34448 State Police Troop C "SOPS- 3C" C2,
C3, C5, C7* Secondary
34480 State Police Troop C Detectives
34608 MSP Troop C Special Services Section
34928 MSP Troop C
GATSF (Governor's Auto Theft Strike Force)
33936 Troop C All Talk Groups
36528 Central Mass Local Public Safety
"LOC-PS-7" (Special Events, Tie to SP)
36560 Central Mass Local Public Safety
"LOC-PS-8" (Special Events)
C7 will continue to use 868.9375
MHz 141.3 Hz until the system is completed.
Troop D (Southeastern
Massachusetts, Cape Cod )
D HQ Middleboro
D-1 Norwell
D-2 South Yarmouth
D-3 North Dartmouth
D-4 Middleboro
D-5 Oak Bluffs (Martha's Vineyard)
D-6 Nantucket
D-7 Bourne
Troop D
Frequencies except
859.8375 Control
859.2875 Control
858.3625
855.9125
855.8875
855.6625
855.6375
855.3625
Troop D Frequencies Upper Cape
Cod
860.4625
860.2375
860.2125 Control
859.2375
859.2125
858.2125
857.2625
857.2375
854.2125
Troop D Frequencies Lower Cape
Cod
856.2625
856.2375
856.2125
857.2125
852.3625
868.5000
867.6250
866.6000
857.2125 Control
856.2625
856.2375
856.2125 Control
853.0375
853.5000
852.6250
852.3625
851.6000
Note that the upper and lower
Cape systems will be re-engineered into one
a single control channel and all
of the 14 available frequency pairs. When this happens, listeners will have to
reprogram scanners to
only have one system for the entire
Troop D Trunk Tracker IDs
33968 State
Police Troop D "D-PTL-1" (D1, D4, DHQ)
34000 State Police Troop D "D-PTL-2"
(D3)
34032 State Police Troop D "D-PTL-3"
(D2, D5, D6,
D7)
34064 State Police Troop D "D-PTL-4"
(
34288 State Police Troop D BIS (
34544 State Police Troop D Special Services
Section
34704 MSP Bristol/Plymouth CPAC (Attorney
General)
34864 MSP Troop D GATSF (Governor's Auto Theft
Strike Force) Southeastern Mass
34896 MSP Troop D GATSF (Governor's
34161 State Police Troop D ATG (All D1/3/4/7
Talk groups)
36400 Bristol/Plymouth County Local Public
Safety "LOC-PS-3" (Special Events, Tie
to SP)
36432 Bristol/Plymouth County Local Public
Safety "LOC-PS-4" (Special Events)
36464 Cape Cod Local Public Safety
"LOC-PS-5" (Special Events, Tie to SP)
36496 Cape Cod Local Public Safety
"LOC-PS-6" (Special Events)
Troop E (Turnpike) VHF and 800 system
E HQ South
Boston Operations Control Complex (OCC)
E-1 Weston - Interchange 11 (Grafton) to
Interchange 19 (Allston-Brighton)
E-2 Charlton – Interchange 11 to
Interchange 7 (Ludlow)
E-3
E-4 Sumner, Callahan, Williams Tunnels,
Turnpike Extension from Interchange 19
I-93 from
|
Frequency |
PL |
Use |
|
159.030 |
110.9 |
Turnpike
Extension |
|
159.030 |
162.2 |
Turnpike
East (miles 85-124) |
|
159.225 |
88.5 |
Turnpike
Central (miles 25-85) |
|
159.030 |
131.8 |
Turnpike
West (miles 0-25) |
|
159.030 |
141.3 |
Sumner
and Callahan Tunnels |
|
159.030 |
82.5 |
Ted
Williams Tunnel |
|
154.920 |
CSQ |
MSP Portable F2 (Portable to
Portable) |
|
154.920 |
203.5 |
MSP Portable F1* |
|
155.475 |
|
MSP Portable F3 (National
Intercity) |
*(Repeats Low band troop
channel through cruiser radio)
The State Police have assigned
several talk groups on the 800 MHz system to Troop E.
As most of the I-93 and I-90 tunnels in Boston
have been finished, radio traffic on the 800 system has increased.
Troop E has assumed responsibility for all of the new roadway, as
well as the Callahan, Sumner, and
Ted Williams tunnels in addition
to the new sections of the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Troop E traffic can be heard on
the Troop B and Troop C trunks as well as the frequencies listed below and the
Troop A/H trunk.
There are several IntelliRepeater sites within Boston to provide coverage in the I-90 and I-93 tunnels. The frequencies are as follows.
Ted
Williams Tunnel
860.7375 Control<