As another police airwave user I have to say it is an utterly ****e system.

Officer safety IS being compromised.

Airwave drops out completely on a regular basis in the control rooms, the
'hang time' to transmit is as long as EIGHT seconds sometimes - utterly
useless during a pursuit or something. The BUSY message is almost
permantently on and it is just NOT designed for busy areas on a Fri/Sat
night with lots of officers using it.

Do they expect us to f**ing run down the street texting on the damn thing to
get updates?

The sooner the Federation and Unison or whoever the lazy arse reps are, get
together and thrash it out with the Chief Constables - the sooner officers
can start seeing improvements and have confidence in the system.