Serving 36 Emergency Response Agencies
CREST provides emergency communications for 36 emergency response agencies and 1800 users in the Capital Region.
The CREST radio system receives a call every 3.6 seconds. Over eight million calls per year go through the system.
Prior to creating CREST, public safety organizations in the Capital Region used over 30 different radio systems for communicating. These systems were not designed or selected to communicate with one another, and in many cases, critical communications links were not available.