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Police need to have radios that work
• CAMDEN police’s new radios do not work. At the recent meeting of Camden’s Police Consultative Group at the Town Hall, Superintendent Roger Smalley revealed that there are whole areas of the borough where the radios have no signal.
In those areas, officers are unable to communicate with their base or with their colleagues. Supt Smalley said that this endangers his officers‚ safety and that he is gravely concerned. He is absolutely right.
If an officer encounters trouble but can’t call in assistance, both the officers and residents in our neighbourhood could be at risk. Crooks could also make a getaway without crucial details being radioed across to other units who could apprehend them.
Given all the money that we rightly spend on policing, it is totally unacceptable that the new radio equipment doesn’t work. This isn’t Camden Police’s fault – they are being let down by incompetent pen pushers at the centre, presided over by Ken Livingstone.
As Chairman of Camden Council’s scrutiny committee whose remit includes community safety, I intend to launch an investigation into this fiasco that is endangering dedicated police officers and our neighbours in the borough.
I will report back to residents when we have done this. I really hope that we can help to get this problem fixed fast.
CLLR CHRIS PHILP
Gospel Oak (Con)
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