Police, Fire and Ambulance (England)

Last Updated: December 25, 2021, 22:44 pm UTC
  • All wide area and local Police communications are carried out on the UK wide TETRA network called Airwave using a mixture of Motorola, Sepura and EADS radio terminals. This system replaced their previous 150Mhz AM simulcast wide area and local PR UHF systems. Some historic information can be found here: www.dtels.org/html/site_map.htm
  • Local authority NHS Ambulance services use Airwave, replacing their previous wide area 166Mhz and UHF handheld 'incident' radio systems.

Frequencies

Fire

National Fireground Radio Channel Plan

The current UK national fireground radio channel plan was agreed with the Home Office in 1993 based on the use of analogue radios and frequency bands of 25 kHz

FrequencyLicenseTypeToneAlpha TagDescriptionModeTag
457.0375 BM CH-1 General Incident FMN Fire-Tac
457.0875 RM CH-2 UHF - VHF Relay FMN Fire-Tac
457.4875 BM CH-3 Breathing Apparatus FMN Fire-Tac
457.1875 BM CH-4 Command Support FMN Fire-Tac
457.1375 BM CH-5 Mobile or Licensed Fixed Base Stations FMN Fire-Tac
457.2375 RM CH-6 Breathing Apparatus FMN Fire-Tac