Executive Summary

METROSAFE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

MISSION STATEMENT

MetroSafe is Public Safety and Public Service Agencies working together in the spirit of cooperation, trust, dedication, honesty, commitment and accountability.

GOALS & OBJECTIVES

  • Create a modern communications and information exchange infrastructure to improve the safety of the citizens and first responders of Louisville Metro
  • Promote interagency cooperation in public safety and public service joint projects and initiatives
  • Promote partnering between public safety and service agencies
  • Consolidate communications for former suburban and urban fire, police, local government radio, and emergency medical services in a single facility using common voice and data infrastructure
  • Create a co-located and consolidated communications and emergency management facility
  • Ensure a continuous availability of critical services
    • Primary facility will be ‘site hardened’ with redundant infrastructure
    • Additional redundancy will be provided by a true fail over site
  • Design, acquire and implement a new Louisville metro-wide wireless and mobile radio infrastructure to support public safety and emergency communications
  • Place consolidated communications in a single civilian organization, reporting to an executive director with service level responsibilities to its constituent organizations.
  • Implement an alternate communications and emergency management facility should the primary facility become incapacitated.

As an organization, MetroSafe is a joint operation to consolidate communications for 911, the Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire and Rescue, Local Government Radio, and Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services. In addition, MetroSafe will offer interoperability for all remaining 911 PSAPS, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, suburban city agencies within Louisville Metro as well as the 13 surrounding counties in Kentucky and Indiana.

The MetroSafe project is responsible for acquiring a facility; developing and implementing adequate infrastructure to support voice, wireless and data communications; implementing proper security; and acquiring and implementing public safety applications to support consolidated communications and public safety interoperability.

METROSAFE PROJECT OVERVIEW

Several project teams are supporting the MetroSafe initiative. Each project team is delineated by their specific public safety or operational function; however, project teams may contain common members. This ensures that Subject Matter Experts (SME) are properly allocated across the entire MetroSafe project organization and communication paths are established within the various teams.

PROJECT STATUS

Due to the size and complexity of the project, the steering committee has taken a phased approach to implementing the MetroSafe Project. The project has three distinct phases:

  • Phase   I – Combine all public safety communications into one facility (Fall 2005) (Completed)
  • Phase  II – Implement new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system (Summer 2006) (Completed - June 2006) 
  • Phase III – Remediation of permanent MetroSafe facility and migration of operations.  Implementation of Mobile Voice Radios System (MVRS) (Motorola contract signed - project plan implementation initiated October 2007.  Site acquisition in progress and preliminary site construction in progress as well.)
  • Phase IV - Radio System Subscriber Units  (Subscriber Survey initiated October 2007.  Subscriber purchase in progress - 2008)

Phase I: Combine all public safety communications into one facility

In order to create a solid foundation for MetroSafe, it was deemed critical to combine all public safety communications into one facility.

    Major Milestones
  • Build out of the Barret facility to consolidate public safety communications in Fall 2005 (Completed)
  • Create interoperability at the console level by use of Motorola Motobridge and new radio consoles in Fall 2005 (Completed)
  • Co-locate existing technologies (CAD and 911 systems) in Fall 2005 (Completed)
Phase II: Implement new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system

A new computer aided dispatch system will allow MetroSafe personnel to operate from one common system across all public safety and public service disciplines.

    Major Milestones
  • RFP release in Fall 2004 (Completed)
  • Vendor demonstrations in Winter 2004 (Completed)
  • Vendor selection process in Spring 2005 (Completed)
  • Contract Negotiations in Summer 2005 (Completed)
  • Contract approval and project initiation in Late Summer 2005 (Completed)
  • Install hardware and software in Fall 2005 (Completed)
  • Complete training and implement in Spring 2006 (Completed June - 2006)

Phase III:  Remediation of permanent MetroSafe facility, and migration of operations.

    Major Milestones

  • Facility remediation (A&E contract in progress with CoxAllen - Fall 2007)
  • New Radio Infrastructure implementation (Motorola contract in progress - Fall 2007)
  • Implementation of new 911 voice infrastructure (AT&T Agreement in progress - Fall 2007)
  • Implementation of new information technology infrastructure
  • Migration of existing technology, including CAD and supporting systems
  • Migration of existing operations to permanent facility
  • On-going testing and maintenance of fail over facility (768 Barret Avenue)

Phase IV: Radio Systems Subscriber Units

    Major Milestones

  • Subscriber units inventory and requirements conducted  (In progress - Fall 2007.  Purchasing of subscriber units - mid 2008.)
  • Radio systems subscriber units are staged and tested 
  • Subscriber units - portables / mobiles are installed and full radio system is implemented
  • Migration of existing radio technology
  • On-going testing and maintenance of radio systems and subscriber units

Phase IV coincides with Phase III Radio Systems Implementation.

Revised:  02/15/08