"Concerned Officer" wrote in message
ups.com...
How the Police, and the Public, are being mislead about Airwave.
An Insider Evaluation of the Propoganda.
Neither my county's fire or ambulance services subscribe to airwave. I
can chat to neighbouring forces if I want to, but the only force I
personally border with the majority of the time is a big expanse of
water.. so no advantage there.

o) "Our colleagues in other forces are already catching more criminals
as a result of using Airwaves digital technology."

One word. Tripe! Airwave offers nothing in effect - due to the
technical problems - that MASC or similar technologies doesn't offer
already. Pure propoganda again.


I work in the Ambulance service where we have been told TETRA is on the way.
Professionally I know a number of emergency services staff at all levels and
in a variety of services - police, fire, ambulance - both operational staff
and Control Staff. Clearly experiences and opinions are swapped.

I am only too aware of the hype which has been generated by Airwave and the
vastly inflated claims being made for it. There is a LOT of dissatisfaction
and much concern that it was and is being hastily foisted on us when no
proper chance was given to other technologies.

One day there will hopefully be - at the very least - a National Audit
Office enquiry into how Airwave came to be implemented/forced on emergency
services. I feel sure that there will be serious questions to answer.

In the meantime I hope the problems (for problems there certainly are, but
being kept quiet) are just teething problems and that they can be sorted.

Simes