In the City of Milwaukee, the Police Department Radio Shop focuses completely on maintaining the central radio communication needs of the city’s response vehicles. The vehicles include all police, fire, rescue, water, and all department-wide trucks and vehicles. The Police Department Radio Shop provides vital services – all behind the scenes. This ensures that the officers and emergency response teams on the street and at headquarters can communicate immediately, clearly, and with zero errors in their communication system. Maintaining the city’s fleet of 80 vehicles is a real commitment. The Radio Shop employs eleven full-time and two part-time staff members to keep the communication department functioning at its best at all times. David Go, the Electronic Technician Foreman, has been with the city for more than ten years, five of them as a foreman. "Space is at a premium," explains David. "We need to manage a lot of inventory to be able to equip our vehicles with the best communication equipment available." Before the addition of the Wildeck® mezzanine, space was at a premium and boxes of communication parts were stacked on pallets up to eight feet high. Now, as new radio parts are received, it is much easier to identify older material and rotate the inventory. The existing facility is not a spacious building, but the team at the Radio Shop worked to make it effective so they can quickly turn around the vehicles. A now-retired member of the team looked into several solutions, knowing that increasing the building size or relocating were not viable options. He determined that a mezzanine would be the best solution for the available space. Stoffel Equipment and Wildeck were contacted to create plans to incorporate a Wildeck® Mezzanine at the Radio Shop. Stoffel Equipment is a trusted partner of Wildeck with the […]