Johnson County Public Safety

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Listen	Feed	Genre	Listeners	Player Selection	Links	Status
	Johnson County Public Safety In Jan 2024, there is a high probability that JoCo PDs will transition to full-time encryption. When (or if) this occurs, you, the citizens of Johnson County, will no longer be able to listen to such radio traffic. Contact your local city gov't, be heard.	Public Safety	59	HTML5 Web Player Static URL ($$)		Online

Feed Notes

This audio feed uses a queuing system. All audio WILL have some form of extended but short-duration 'time to live' delay due to queued audio. Only primary dispatch channels are monitored. The following agencies are being scanned:

If viewing from your mobile, please view the table below in landscape/horizontal mode.

Agency / Type	Talkgroup, Tag, Notes
Overland Park, Sanders Police Dispatch	(31351) Displays as: Overland Park - Sanders Dispatch
Olathe Police Dispatch	(31303) Displays as: Olathe - Dispatch
Lenexa Police Dispatch	(31251) Displays as: Lenexa - Dispatch  LPD is no longer monitored on this audio feed (encryption-related).
Leawood Police Dispatch	(31201) Displays as: Leawood - Dispatch
Johnson County Sheriff Police Dispatch, South Zone	(30003) Displays as: JoCoSo - South Zone Covers most of rural Johnson County, KS calls. Includes De Soto, Gardner, and Spring Hill in this talk group.
Johnson County Sheriff Police Dispatch, North Zone	(30001) Displays as: JoCoSo - North Zone Covers most of the urban and suburban (NE JoCo cities) Johnson County, KS calls.
Shawnee Police Dispatch	(31451) Displays as: Shawnee - Dispatch
Prairie Village Police Dispatch	(31401) Displays as: Prairie Village - Dispatch
Johnson County Emergency Communications Center FD/EMS Dispatch	(30101) Displays as: JoCoECC - Dispatch (30102) Displays as: JoCoECC - Ops (30992) Displays as: JoCoECC - Dispatch NOTE: ECC Auto Dispatch (30992) is full-time patched to Dispatch (30101) Covers all Johnson County KS emergency (EMS, Fire, etc.) dispatch calls. Sometimes (rare!), it includes dispatching calls/responses to portions of Douglas and Miami County, KS.

This audio feed will not broadcast talk groups such as JoCo Commons, RegComs, City Wides, Public Works, KDOT, or non-dispatch talk groups. I cannot monitor or scan JoCo ECC Fireground talk groups (ECC Tac 4 to Tac 9). They encrypted it in 2013, and it appears it was solely encrypted to keep the media (TV/News) out. 

 

FAQ:

• Why is this stream so quiet... where's the humming and noise?
  • I don't like white noise. I don't like listening to a grounding hum issue all day.
  • The scanner is very much scanning, but not with background sounds.

• The alpha tags show up a few seconds after or are inconsistent during the voice transmission.
  • This is simply because the application sends the metadata in a delayed state to the Broadcastify servers, causing further delay. Generally, meta/alpha tags are sent as the transmission activates.

• The audio is really distorted!! What gives?
  • That happens from time to time with P25 systems. As far as I am aware, this is due to a bad decode on the scanner or an antenna on the P25 system having issues, causing the scanner to record bad audio.
  • Sometimes, it will auto-correct; other times - it will be like that until the transmission concludes.
  • Commonly known as simulcast distortion.
     
• Why is the audio so badly delayed? (New/2023)
  • This audio feed utilizes an audio queue system.
  • Johnson County, KS, PSAPs can get very active in the evenings, causing extended transmission delays.
  • There is a base delay on top of the queue delay.
    • The base delay is a combination of network lag, recording, and encoding lag time.
    • In most instances, the audio delay averages no more than 15 minutes of queue time at peak.
    • At worst, the delay can be upwards of 45 minutes.
    • Generally, when the delay surpasses 30 minutes, the feed provider will typically hard reset the queue and stream.
  • If you want a website for solo talk groups to listen back on, try https://scanjoco.us/
     
• Can I buy my own scanner? (New/2023)
  • Sure, be my guest; I'm not stopping you. However, you'll need a scanner capable of decoding Project 25 Phase 1 and 2 transmissions. They're pricey, like 500$+ pricey.
  • Please note that there are rumored plans for JoCo agencies to push a potential encryption rollout on the system. If that were to happen, your scanner (and this audio feed) effectively becomes a glorified paperweight.

 

Other notes:

If the stream is silent for more than 15 minutes at any given time and only shows "Scanning...", please do let me know. It's possible something changed on the JoCo system, or the scanner needs to be hit with a hammer a few more times. :^)

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Last updated: Sept 27, 2023