Tactical Communications Unit (TCU-02)

The Tactical Communication Unit was developed with the input from several police departments in the Phoenix area. The TCU-02 was designed to assist law enforcement officers in gaining control of tactical situations. The system provides officers with a way to communicate with the suspect and victims while maintaining as high a degree of personal safety as possible in these situations. Several departments in throughout the country currently use the TCU-02.

Deploying the remote speaker/microphone in the area with the subject with whom communications are necessary allows the negotiator to both talk and listen to the subject. The operator wears a dual-muff headset/microphone to allow hearing all sounds generated in the area of the remote unit. To speak, the operator simply depresses a push-to -talk switch. The use of a push-to-talk switch assures that confidential conversation at the negotiator’s end of the situation is not broadcast to the perpetrator or victims. The remote speaker/microphone can provide sound loud enough to be heard through closed doors and windows and is also sensitive enough to pick up sounds through the same. The unit also has a tone generator with six different attention getting tones that can be transmitted to the remote speaker.

The TCU-02 provides the following features: