The BRICS Support unit provides support for several shared, countywide systems and is responsible for the communications technology needs of the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. Some of the systems supported are considered critical infrastructure – or, networks and systems so vital that their incapacitation would have a debilitating impact on emergency services in such a way as to compromise the safety of the public or first responders.

Technicians are on call to respond to problems at any of our twenty-two tower sites and nine dispatch centers, which are spread across the county and, in some cases, are outside the county. It’s not unusual for a problem to require a technician at either end of a connectivity problem, or for one person to address the technical issue while another helps users and dispatch centers continue operating despite an outage.

Several personnel are trained and certified as COMT (Communications Unit Technician) and COML (Communications Unit Leader) through programs developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In the Incident Command System (ICS), the COML leads the Communications Unit and is assisted by one or more COMTs; together, they are responsible for both the technical and operational aspects of interoperability during an incident, natural disaster or pre-planned event.

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