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Tijuana Municipal Police Force Receives Upgraded Radios

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter,  KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published January 11, 2007 at 1:53 PM PST
This story was published more than 17 years ago.

The Mayor of Tijuana gave the city’s municipal police 100 digital radios Thursday. Police routinely receive death threats on their analog radios. City and law enforcement officials hope the switch t

Tijuana Municipal Police Force Receives Upgraded Radios

The Mayor of Tijuana gave the city’s municipal police 100 digital radios Thursday.  Police routinely receive death threats on their analog radios. City and law enforcement officials hope the switch to the digital makes police radios more difficult to infiltrate. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has details.

Last Thursday, Federal authorities ordered all 2,300 municipal agents to turn in their guns. Municipal police officials say since then, they frequently hear transmissions like this one come across their radios.

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The sender says, “We’re going to cut your heads off now that you don’t have your guns.”

Municipal police officials say anyone who buys an analog radio can tune to the police frequency. Officials plan to switch the whole force to digital. But they don’t know when that’ll happen.

Meanwhile, Tijuana municipal police officials say federal authorities still have not told them when they plan to return the local force’s guns. In the meantime, the municipal police are limiting their activities and are not transferring prisoners.

Amy Isackson, KPBS News.

Amy Isackson
Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.
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