Oh dear….
And they’ve sold off a lot of the old “M2MP” VHF kit already, if things get bad they will end up having to buy it back off the anoraks who usually buy it (usually middle aged radio hams who want to play at being a copper)
Lots of other forces don’t even have that much backup equipment any more, as they were all told Ofcom was gonna flog the old VHF and UHF frequencies (but they haven’t done so yet)..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2120820,00.html
