FFS.
Spend half that money on 4G contracts.
Then spend the other half on buying everyone forty cheap mobile smartphones each.
Keep paying for Airwave for a year or two until someone comes up with a way to mark those smartphones as emergency priority phones.
Honestly, £1300 a device is a piss-take, on top of hundreds of millions of pounds to get a basic comms system running over an existing data network.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
