"Brian" wrote in message
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"Concerned Officer" wrote in message
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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


Hello,

In Merseyside and Cheshire there is NO encryption on Airwave, the
fact it is
"digital" is thought to be enough to put people off having a go at
listening!
A lot of the Motorola handsets had difficulty with the encryption.


Sorry, the air interface IS encrypted, just as mobile phones are, but
from BTS to control is not.