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Article: All abourd the green Routemaster
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 3, 1994
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Internal documents leaked from Scotland Yard provide evidence
that the Metropolitan Police force's reorganisation may be
overloading personal radio networks. Beat officers have repeatedly
claimed that delays in making radio contact with their headquarters
could be putting their lives at risk.
Radio traffic loading figures obtained by Scotland Yard's own
radio system engineering branch last year, and those from a study
in 1991 by Touche Ross Management Constultants, show that the new
super divisions created by the shake up will at times be working at
"saturation point" in terms of the radio traffic they have to cope
with.
This could lead to unreasonable queuing to gain access to radio ...