Every day, the so-called PPDR authorities and organisations – Public Protection and Disaster Relief (here: police, fire brigade, and rescue services, as well as many others who ensure our safety and public order) – handle a large number of operations. Communication is an indispensable tool for achieving this successfully.

The security and rescue forces place significant operational and tactical demands on their communication. With the Public Safety Digital Radio, they have a modern, uniform and powerful tool for their mission-critical communication that meets the highest operational requirements.

The Public Safety Digital Radio in figures

The Public Safety Digital Radio is the world’s largest radio network based on the international TETRA standard:

• The Public Safety Digital Radio is the world’s largest radio network based on the international TETRA standard:
• 5,000 base stations cover 99.2 % of Germany.
• The average network availability is 99.97% – this corresponds to a downtime of less than half a minute per day.
• Over one million terminal devices are registered in the network.
• Around 50 million radio messages are sent over the network every month.
• In recent years, large-scale operations with up to 30,000 terminal devices have regularly taken place.

The strengths of the Public Safety Digital Radio

The Public Safety Digital Radio is characterised by special features that distinguish it from commercial mobile radio networks. The Public Safety Digital Radio:

• has been expanded across the nation,
• has a high temporal availability,
• is tap-proof,
• is characterised by a high level of speech quality,
• allows group calls with a large number of terminal devices.

In addition, the Public Safety Digital Radio provides various services to the security and rescue forces of authorities and organisations with security tasks.

A common network for all PPDR organisations

The Public Safety Digital Radio facilitates nationwide and cross-organisational communication. This opens up a wide range of possibilities and simplifies cooperation efforts – not only in simple everyday operations, but also in complex operational situations, crisis situations and disasters. In doing so, the Public Safety Digital Radio supports fast and reliable assistance efforts for all citizens.

Would you like an example? Thanks to the Public Safety Digital Radio, a Federal Police unit at Frankfurt Airport can communicate with colleagues at Munich Central Station during a manhunt. And because communication also works across organisations, in the event of a fire in a shopping centre in Kiel, the units of the state police, the local fire brigade and the various rescue services can remain interconnected on a situation-specific basis, and thus communicate with each other without obstacles or delays.

Would you like to know more about the Public Safety Digital Radio? On our German website, you will find further information – including on the structure and function, organisation and operation, its users, communication services, crisis resistance and much more.