4500     PROGRAM SUMMARY, RESOURCES, AND CONTACTS 
(Revised 03/06)

This chapter provides major policy for the state's Public Safety communications systems and services.  The program includes, but is not limited to, design, engineering, acquisition, installation, maintenance,  and operation of state's Public Safety communications systems and facilities; establishing policies, standards, practices, and procedures for managing public safety communications systems and services; and developing strategic and tactical policies and plans for statewide Public Safety communications.

This program ensures that statewide public safety communications management is timely and efficient.  It also ensures that the specialized telecommunications needs of public safety are met.  This is accomplished through policies that maximize the state's resources and direct the consolidation and joint use of communications systems and services where it makes economic, programmatic, and technical sense to do so.

Directives, procedures, and service information for complying with this policy are contained in the Public Safety Communications Guide (PSCSG).  The PSCSG is available from the Department of General Services, Office of Public Safety Communications Services, located at 601 Sequoia Pacific Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95814, or on the Web Site at http://www.telecom.dgs.ca.gov/.

See SAM Section 0030 for contact names and telephone numbers.