Home Office radio
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home-office-radio-178-1953097
title:
Home Office radio
text:
Home Office radio was the VHF and UHF radio service provided by the British government to its prison service, emergency service and Home Defence agencies from around 1939. The departmental name was the Home Office Directorate of Telecommunications, commonly referred to as DTELS. Prior to this, contact by emergency service personnel with their control rooms was made by telephone. Then in 1922 the Metropolitan Police began to install radio receivers in their vehicles. Due to telegraphy only being
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encyclopedia
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Communications service for UK prisons and emergency services
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_radio
date created:
2011-01-11T23:53:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T10:40:07Z
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