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Onondaga County Scanner: Sheriff, NYSP Troop D, and Suburban Police Live Feed

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Onondaga County Scanner: Sheriff, NYSP Troop D, and Suburban Police Live Feed

By Mike Rivera, Senior Reporter. Published 2026-05-06. Last updated 2026-05-06.

The Onondaga County scanner covers law-enforcement traffic outside the Syracuse city limits, including the Onondaga County Sheriff (33 towns and villages, 175 deputies), New York State Police Troop D Onondaga, and 12 suburban village police departments including Solvay, Liverpool, Manlius, North Syracuse, and Skaneateles. The county-wide P25 trunked system carries roughly 800 talkgroups across 14 sites including Pratt Hill, Sentinel Heights, and Bear Mountain. CNY Signal monitors the public talkgroups continuously and publishes redacted incident summaries.

Live county scanner audio: cnysignal.com/audio.

Onondaga County Sheriff Office Structure

The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, led by Sheriff Toby Shelley (term began January 2023),
operates from the Justice Center at 555 South State Street and a road patrol substation in
Liverpool. The office fields roughly 175 deputies and 250 corrections officers per the 2024
county budget summary. Patrol coverage is divided into Zone A (north county, including Cicero,
Clay, North Syracuse), Zone B (east county, including DeWitt, Manlius, Fayetteville), Zone C
(south county, including LaFayette, Tully, Pompey), and Zone D (west county, including
Camillus, Solvay, Geddes). The Sheriff’s Office also operates the marine patrol on Onondaga
Lake, the K-9 unit, and the SWAT team that supports village police on high-risk warrants.

The 12 Suburban Police Departments on the System

Onondaga County has 12 active municipal police departments outside Syracuse: Solvay PD,
Liverpool PD (covers Salina Town), Manlius PD, North Syracuse PD, Skaneateles PD, East
Syracuse PD, Minoa PD, Camillus PD (small department), Fayetteville PD, Marcellus PD, Tully
PD, and DeWitt PD. The Town of Cicero contracts with the Sheriff’s Office for primary patrol.
The Town of Clay contracts with the Sheriff for primary patrol. Several small towns (Pompey,
LaFayette, Spafford, Otisco) have no municipal department and rely on Sheriff and NYSP
coverage. All 12 active departments use the county P25 system, which means CNY Signal can
follow a Skaneateles patrol stop or a Manlius DWI arrest on the same network as a Sheriff
deputy in Cicero.

New York State Police Troop D Onondaga Coverage

NYSP Troop D operates from the Oneida headquarters and covers the Syracuse and Utica
metro region. Troop D maintains barracks in Lafayette (Onondaga County) and contributes to
patrol on I-81, I-690, I-481, and the Thruway (I-90). Trooper presence is most concentrated
on the I-81 corridor, where state police make roughly 60 percent of all traffic stops between
Cortland and the Thruway interchange per Troop D’s 2024 stop-data release. Troop D talkgroups
on the county system include 700 series for road patrol and 750 series for command and
specialty units.

Why the County System Matters: 33 Towns Plus 15 Villages

Onondaga County has 33 towns and 15 villages outside Syracuse, with combined population
of 309,247 per ACS 5-year 2018 to 2022 estimates. The county’s police-to-population ratio
varies wildly: Manlius (1 officer per 480 residents) and Fayetteville (1 per 410) are
relatively well-staffed; Tully (1 per 1,840) and Marcellus (1 per 2,020) are thin. The
Sheriff’s office fills coverage gaps for the 16 towns and 8 villages that have no municipal
department or fewer than 10 officers.

Top Call Types on the Suburban Network

Per RadioReference talkgroup volume data captured in 2024, the most active suburban
talkgroups on the county system are: Sheriff Patrol Zone A (north county, 8,247 transmissions
in a representative 30-day sample), Sheriff Patrol Zone B (east county, 6,891), Liverpool PD
(4,287), NYSP Troop D Onondaga road patrol (3,901), Solvay PD (3,192), Manlius PD (2,847),
DeWitt PD (2,401). Top dispatched call categories: traffic (43 percent), domestic-related (12
percent), property crime (9 percent), suspicious-person (8 percent), accident with injury (5
percent), drug-related (4 percent), other (19 percent).

Onondaga County 911 Center Statistics

The Onondaga County 911 center handled 743,891 calls in 2024 per the
county 911 annual report. Of those, 53 percent were
suburban (county outside Syracuse) and 47 percent were Syracuse city calls. The center is
co-located with the Onondaga County Department of Emergency Communications at 3911 Court
Street and is staffed 24/7 with 87 telecommunicators. Average answer time in 2024 was 7.2
seconds (NENA standard: 90 percent of calls answered in 15 seconds).

Scanning Suburban Departments: Equipment and Method

CNY Signal uses two RTL-SDR Blog v4 receivers and an Airspy R2 receiver tuned to the
Onondaga County P25 control channels. Trunk-recorder software follows control-channel
assignments and captures every active voice talkgroup. Audio is then transcribed via
OpenAI Whisper, post-processed for PII redaction (addresses rounded, names of non-arrested
individuals stripped), and indexed in the public event database. The pipeline supports the
Pro tier searchable transcript index.

What CNY Signal Will Not Publish from the County Scanner

Per the CNY Signal radio data policy, the publication does not republish: dispatcher
voice audio with identifying PII, mental-health hold requests, juvenile detentions before
adjudication, sexual assault details before public arrest, in-progress active investigation
audio, ICE or federal cooperative talkgroup audio. The policy is more conservative than
required by New York law and reflects a 2023 internal audit that found the publication’s
willingness to redact and delay was the difference between trust from local agencies and
mutual hostility.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Onondaga County scanner system?

Onondaga County operates a Phase II P25 trunked radio system covering 33 towns, 15 villages, and the City of Syracuse. The system uses 800 talkgroups across 14 sites and carries traffic for the Sheriff, NYSP Troop D, Syracuse PD, 12 village police departments, Syracuse Fire, suburban fire departments, and AMR ambulance.

Who runs the Onondaga County Sheriff Office?

Sheriff Toby Shelley took office in January 2023, succeeding Eugene Conway. The office operates from the Justice Center at 555 South State Street and a Liverpool road patrol substation, with roughly 175 deputies and 250 corrections officers.

Which suburban Onondaga County towns have their own police department?

12 suburban departments operate active municipal police: Solvay, Liverpool, Manlius, North Syracuse, Skaneateles, East Syracuse, Minoa, Camillus, Fayetteville, Marcellus, Tully, and DeWitt. The Towns of Cicero and Clay contract with the Sheriff for primary patrol. Other small towns rely on Sheriff and NYSP coverage.

How is NYSP Troop D involved in Onondaga County?

Troop D operates from Oneida headquarters with barracks in Lafayette, and covers all interstates passing through Onondaga County: I-81, I-690, I-481, I-90 Thruway. Troop D makes roughly 60 percent of all traffic stops on I-81 between Cortland and the Thruway.

Are Sheriff and NYSP talkgroups encrypted?

Most Sheriff patrol and Troop D road patrol talkgroups are unencrypted P25 digital. Tactical units (SWAT, narcotics) are encrypted. CNY Signal captures only the unencrypted public talkgroups and applies the radio data policy redactions before publication.

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