Saturday, July 17, 2010  Hinds County officials are working to find out what caused the police radio communication system to crash Wednesday. 
    County emergency management leaders held a two hour closed door meeting Friday with representatives from Jackson and Clinton police departments as well as the sheriff’s department.
    During the outage, dispatchers in Jackson and Clinton had to find alternative ways to communicate with officers, firefighters and paramedics.
    While police dispatchers could hear patrol officers on the streets, radios in the officers’ squad cars were out of commission for almost half an hour.     
    Officials tell us they were forced to use cell phones to communicate until the system came back on line.
    Jackson police tell us they have put a back up plan in place in case the system crashes in the future.
    Meantime, an attorney for the board of supervisors tells us the county has filed suit against Motorola for failing to complete an upgrade of the system’s software.