Re: Who was the priority?
your problem is in the use of the word modern. Police kit was old tech.
The UHF (Hand helds) system worked exceptionally well (for specific values of exceptionally and well) but was old kit and therefore bad.... apparently. PTT, local comms, local area interconnection by a simply twist of a knob.
The VHF system (generally vehicle based) enabled forces all over the country to talk to each other from anywhere simply by changing frequency.
Of course both could be snooped, and were, which was the biggest problem.
/mines the big black tax payer funded Goretex-alike jacket
Biting the hand that feeds IT
