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Airwave explain the benefits of the new NPIA Acceleration Package
Roger Marsden, Client Director - Mobile Data at Airwave, (and an inaugural member of BAPCO since inception) explains some of the key features of the recently awarded NPIA / Airwave Acceleration Package and discusses how UK police forces can benefit from the Package under the current government push for mobile information.
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The bigger picture: increasing the role of technology
A vision that encompasses the local and the big picture – Olaf Baars, Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, during BAPCO Conference.
PageOne launch emergency channel for blue light organisations
PageOne has announced exclusively to BAPCO Journal that it is about to launch a paging channel reserved solely for the emergency services.
IAFC Digital Project Working Group produces best practices presentation
The IAFC (International Association of Fire Chiefs) Portable Radio Best Practices presentation has just been posted for download to the IAFC website.
Exercise Oasis aims to improve interoperability across the EU
Exercise Oasis is a four-year EU sponsored programme that has seen industry, academia and research institutions join with the emergency services to find solutions to interoperability across Europe and the UK. It is being heralded as the foundation to a European Emergency Response system.
ACPO-APA Conference Preview
The ACPO-APA Conference takes place at the end of June and will feature a wide selection of talks, many of which will be of importance and interest to readers of the BAPCO Journal. We highlight just a few of the talks taking place of interest
Thales UK
Thales give live demo of Indoor Positioning System
A live demonstration by Thales Research & Technology carried out in early May successfully showed their new Indoor Positioning System (IPS) technology at the Fire Service College in Gloucestershire.
