PROGRAM SUMMARY, RESOURCES, AND CONTACTS - 4500

This chapter provides major policy for the state's Public Safety communications systems and services. The program includes, but is not limited to, design, engineering, acquisition, installation, maintenance, and operation of the state’s Public Safety communications systems and facilities; establishing policies, standards, practices, and procedures for managing public safety communications systems and services; and developing strategic and tactical policies and plans for statewide Public Safety communications.

This program ensures that statewide public safety communications management is timely and efficient. It also ensures that the specialized communications needs of public safety are met. This is accomplished through policies that maximize the state's resources and direct the consolidation and joint use of communications systems and services where it makes economic, programmatic, and technical sense to do so.

Directives, procedures, and service information for complying with this policy are contained in the Public Safety Communications Services Guide (PSCSG). The PSCSG is available from the Department of General Services, Office of Public Safety Communications Services, located at 601 Sequoia Pacific Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95814, or on the Web Site at https://www.caloes.ca.gov/cal-oes-divisions/public-safety-communications.

See SAM Section 0030 for contact names and telephone numbers