ARLA/CLUSTER: Porque será que isto nos parece tão familiar: Atrasos no novo sistema de rádio da polícia no Reino Unido "custará os salários de 8.000 policias", graças a uma factura de 400 milhões de libras por projeto desastroso.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Delays to new police radio system 'will cost the salaries of 8,000 PCs
thanks to a £400m bill for disastrous project'

Police chiefs fear they will be hit with a £400 million bill for a
disastrous Government project to replace their crucial radio systems.

Secret documents obtained by *The Mail on Sunday* show that senior officers
have been privately warned that further delays to the overdue scheme could
cost them the equivalent of the annual pay and training costs for 8,000
constables.

The £4 billion upgrade to emergency services communications is already
years behind schedule, and there are growing concerns that critical
elements of it cannot work.

Incredibly, the technology does not even exist to operate the new
generation of radios in police helicopters, while hundreds of extra phone
masts must be built before the network can be used in rural areas.

Police leaders fear these unresolved problems will push the start date for
the Emergency Services Network (ESN) back again, leaving them with a huge
bill for keeping the existing Airwave radio system switched on as they pay
for the development of its replacement.

The idea behind ESN is to give police and firefighters the ability to share
photos and videos of incidents on new digital handsets. But the scale of
the plan, and the fact it has never been tried anywhere in the world, means
its introduction has already been pushed back repeatedly
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4959474/Delays-police-radio-cost-salaries-8-000-PCs.html
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