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What’s Going on with the State Patrol Radio System?

Photo by Austin Jenkins / NW News Network

August 11, 2016 - 8:42 am

Delays, dead air and garbled transmissions have bedeviled a new Washington State Patrol radio system. Now the state auditor’s office is questioning the patrol’s no-bid contract with Motorola to build the system and the lack of an engineering study beforehand. Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins has the latest: