STEARNS, BENTON, SHERBURNE, WRIGHT COUNTY: POLICE, FIRE, SHERIFF, EMS, STATE PATROL, MNDOT Snowplows

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Equipment:

Bearcat BCD996XT P25 Digital Trunked System Scanner, with talkgroup delays set at 2 or 3 seconds

** All police & fire departments in Stearns, Benton, and Sherburne Co are dispatched by their respective sheriff's offices.

To help distinguish the major agencies, the following tones are generated when the scanner stops on a transmission:
Single fast short beep = St. Cloud Police (9xxx units)
Hi + Low tone twice = St. Cloud Fire
2 fast short beeps = Stearns Co Sheriff & county PD's (dispatched by sheriff's office "2500")
Single DTMF ("touch-tone") tone = Benton Co Sheriff & county PD's (dispatched by sheriff's office "4500")
Single fast two-tone 'pong' tone = Sherburne Co Sheriff & county PD's (dispatched by sheriff's office "3500")

The scanner is configured as follows:

ST. CLOUD POLICE DISPATCH
ST. CLOUD POLICE & FIRE EMS
ST. CLOUD FIRE DISPATCH
ST. CLOUD FIRE SCENE
ST. CLOUD FIRE TRAINING
STEARNS CO SHERIFF & POLICE DISPATCH
STEARNS CO FIRE DISPATCH
BENTON CO SHERIFF & POLICE DISPATCH
SHERBURNE CO SHERIFF & POLICE DISPATCH
SHERBURNE CO FIRE DISPATCH
WRIGHT CO SHERIFF & POLICE DISPATCH
WRIGHT CO FIRE DISPATCH
MN STATE PATROL DISPATCH
SARTELL FIRE
SARTELL POLICE
SAUK RAPIDS FIRE
SAUK RAPIDS POLICE
WAITE PARK POLICE
WAITE PARK FIRE
ST. JOSEPH FIRE
COLD SPRING FIRE
ST. AUGUSTA FIRE
STATEWIDE POLICE
STATEWIDE FIRE
MN STATWIDE EMERGENCY
EMS HELICOPTERS
EMS AMBULANCE
STATEWIDE EMS

Additionally:
Public Works and MNDOT / snow plow frequencies may be activated during winter and snowstorms only
SKYWARN weather spotter frequencies may be activated during bad weather & storms only

Questions or comments are always welcome:
stcscanner@charter.net

Unit Identification Numbers:

Stearns Co Unit Identification
9000's   =   Saint Cloud Police  (98xx are parking control units)
2500     =   Stearns Co. Dispatcher
2500's   =   Stearns Co. Sheriff Deputies
2600's   =   Stearns Co Sheriff Water Patrol
6300's   =   Brooten Police
6400's   =   Cold Springs Police
6500's   =   Eden Valley Police
6600's   =   Albany Police
6800's   =   Kimball Police
6900's   =   Melrose Police
7100's   =   Paynesville Police
7300's   =   Richmond Police
7400's   =   Belgrade Police
7600's   =   St.John's Life Safety
7700's   =   St. Joseph Police
7800's   =   Sauk Centre Police
7900's   =   Sartell Police
2300's   =   Waite Park Police
201   =   Albany Fire
202   =   Avon Fire
207   =   Brooten Fire
208   =   Cold Spring Fire
213   =   Elrosa Fire
215   =   Freeport Fire
217   =   Holdingford Fire
219   =   Kimball Fire
228   =   St.Anthony Fire
231   =   Rockville Fire
236   =   St. Joseph Fire
241   =   St. Stephen Fire
242   =   Sartell Fire
247   =   Waite Park Fire
15x   =   Gold Cross Ambulance
581   =   Brooten Ambulance
51x     =    Paynesville Ambulance
54x     =    Melrose Ambulance
56x     =    Sauk Centre Ambulance
 
Benton Co Unit Identification
4500    =   Benton County Dispatcher
4500's  =   Benton County Sheriff's Deputies
1100's  =    Rice Police
2200's  =   Sauk Rapids Police

8800's  =   Foley Police

Sherburne County Unit Identification
3500          =  Sherburne County Dispatcher
3500's        =  Sherburne County Sheriff's Deputies
3600's        =  Elk River Police
3700's        =  Big Lake Police
3800's        =  Becker Police
3900's        =  Zimmerman Car (Sheriff Contract)
5700's        =  Monticello/Big Lake/Becker Ambulance  
   
Wright County Unit Identification
2100's              =  Sheriff's Deputies Northwest
3100's              =  Sheriff's Deputies Northeast
4100's              =  Sheriff's Deputies Southeast
5100's              =  Sheriff's Deputies Southwest
2540                =  Clearwater Police
2300's              =  Annandale Police
4400's              =  Buffalo Police

State Patrol:

Kxxx DNR Conservation Officer 
SPxxx State Trooper 
Car xx HQ Based Trooper 
9xx Helicopter Pilot Troopers 
17xx commercial vehicle inspector, Non-POST Certified 
2601 District Captain 
260x District Lieutenants 
26xx St. Cloud District Officers 
81xx TMC FIRST Trucks 

MNDOT Snowplows (monitored only during adverse weather, such as snowfall events):

"Granite" units are St.Cloud
"Metro" units are north and east of St.Cloud
"West" units are west of St.Cloud
"Lake" units are south of St.Cloud
"Cambridge" units are Cambridge area
"River" units are Elk River area

"Monti" units are Monticello area

 
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