Last August I talked to one of the people who does or did media relations before that all ended and it's more about the local media than long distance listeners half way around the world, who cares if someone in another part of the world hears a call for a car accident or crime in KW?, the online scanner fear is the same line of BS and "all criminals have scanners" line of BS that is also often used.
That new chief is all about only having the good stuff in the news and nothing else. In Guelph they even encrypted fire dispatch, ended all media relations under his term and there was just no information even on major incidents and the former Guelph newspaper actually did a story on a murder case that went on for weeks with police not saying what happened at the location, area residents also complained as they had no idea.....turned out there was a woman murdered next door.....five weeks later a reporter found out through a court document.
If anyone has any contacts at the local KW media they should let them know that their days of covering breaking news are soon over, they better double down on happy community event stories because that's what it's gonna be like under that police chief and like in Guelph fire will encrypt, the police will run the new system under the organizational changes so all users are encrypted, the radios they are buying and installing fully support it so it won't cost them anything to use the feature.
The fire chiefs have no say, it's now the police system, same thing happened in York region, that police chief hates the media and encrypted and ordered all fire departments to encrypt and transit to encrypt if they want to be on that system.
It's done, look at Toronto, nearly a 100% safe city now that the radios went encrypted, the odd car crash, fire and murder but the daily street crime that affects the ordinary person? gone, chief solved the problem overnight. Cell phone robberies? used to happen at a rate of one every 15 minutes in Toronto, stopped completely when the new radios came to life, Hamilton, Peel, york and Durham? even safer regions than Toronto....completely crime free and the chiefs and politicians love it.....they can start cutting the budgets now.
Can't cut the budget when you have crime on the front page of the newspaper every single day, city council won't allow it. Sure they keep stats but stats don't have the impact as stories in the press.
This has nothing to do with online scanners or criminals listening, now the police control the message, some officers even do their own reports via periscope, complete control of the message and the message is "all is well" and it works, when was the last time you saw breaking news coverage in the Hong Kong media?, they have a lot more media there than here, 100% encryption of everything and not as much as a car accident ever happens in that city.
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