Congratulations to Hato Hone St John (HHStJ) and Tait Communications who have completed the installation of new radio equipment into their ambulances and other response vehicles in preparation for the new Public Safety Network Land Mobile Radio network.
In just over a year Tait Communications on behalf of Tait Systems NZ, have installed 770 radios into the HHStJ vehicles. The last one was fitted on Friday in Rotorua.
“This is a huge milestone in the Land Mobile Radio network build,” NGCC Lead Entity director Steve Ferguson says.
More than 100 staff from 14 Tait service providers and partners have been involved in the installations – a combined effort of more than 9000 hours work.
HHStJ has spent thousands of hours planning, supporting, coordinating and quality checking every radio installed.
“It’s been a huge logistical effort from everyone, particularly HHStJ who needed to ensure they continued to serve the New Zealand public while the installations took place. I congratulate everyone involved. The new Land Mobile Radio network is well and truly in sight.” Mr Ferguson said.
More than 7,000 radios will be fitted into emergency vehicles, 1,300 radios into buildings and about 30,000 new portable radios will be delivered to emergency services’ staff across the four Public Safety Network agencies – Fire and Emergency NZ, Police, Hato Hone St John and Wellington Free Ambulance - so they are ready for the new Land Mobile Radio network when it goes live.
HHSJ is the first of the four emergency services to complete their installations into vehicles.
Installations are in full swing for Police and Fire and Emergency NZ while Wellington Free Ambulance is currently trialling new equipment in four vehicles before full fleet installations begin in 2026.
Read more about radio installations here