DHS has announced that senior officials to the US-Mexico "high-level consultative commission on telecommunications" have signed a bilateral telecom agreement to support a new cross boarder communications network for public safety and law enforcement organizations focused on strengthening border security.
The agreement sets up a bilateral working group through which DHS and the Mexican Secretariat of Public Security will install and operate the network.
According to DHS, the new network will allow participating public safety organizations to coordinate incident response and cooperate on a broad array of law enforcement activities through the establishment of new cross border voice, data and video channels.
It said the agreement also provides radio interference protection for the network’s infrastructure and a process under which the bilateral working group can establish interoperable communications for qualifying federal, state, local and tribal public safety and law enforcement organizations that are invited to participate in the network.
