Police told to send text messages as its cheaper

[orkneycadian]

Good for crims, not so good for taxpayers.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329538/Police-told-send-text-messages-expensive-speak-radios.html

So the wonderful TETRA system, as well as frying policepersons brains, is now deemed too expensive to use! :roll:

Wouldn't they simply have been better having the same mobiles as the rest of us in the first place?

[Phill]

It was well noted before the system even rolled out the cost was going to come back and bite them in the arse.

Purely my own opinion but I guess there were serious beackhanders involved in the contract.


Once again procurement via the civil service, it doesn't work.

[Logical]

Its because they use an especially protected system.

Over in the states they don't use an especially encryped system - any police scanner can pick it up. I don't see what's wrong with this to be honest.