DEVON
POLICE RADIO FEARS TO BE AIRED AT CONFERENCE
BY ANDREW MOSLEY
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
12:00 - 13 May 2003
Devon police officers' fears over a new emergency communications
system
are to be highlighted at a national conference today. Steve
Pearce,
chairman of the Devon and Cornwall branch of the Police Federation,
which represents hundreds of rank and file officers, says
more research is
needed before the new Tetra system is introduced.
The police constable, who is in Blackpool for the federation's
annual
three-day conference starting today, said: "Our roll-out
of masts has
been delayed until the spring of 2005 because of the anti-mast
campaign,
so we do have a comfort zone.
"My concern, and that of the federation, is for the
health of officers
across Devon and Cornwall and that is the stance we are taking."
The Police Federation says some officers elsewhere in the
country have
reported headaches and nausea after using radios linked to
the Tetra
system. It believes its members are being used as guinea pigs.
"We are calling for further research and closer monitoring
of officers
using the system," said Mr Pearce.
"Devon and Cornwall Police Federation has been at the
forefront of
raising concerns over health risks in Tetra."
Plans to introduce the Tetra radio masts in Devon were last
year put on
ice until 2005 because of the strength of public opinion.
Airwave, the company responsible for installing the new mobile
phone
transmitters, confirmed the delay was due to the number of
petitions
against its planning applications, mainly on health grounds.
Campaigners welcome the delay because it will enable them
to gather more
objections.
Devon and Cornwall police would have been one of the first
forces to use
the new Tetra system, but are now likely to be among the last.
The Echo's Shock Waves campaign has highlighted many of the
public
protests against the Tetra masts, including:
Plans for a mast in Casely Woods, Lustleigh, which the Dartmoor
National
Park Authority refused on the grounds of visual impact;
An application for a Tetra mast at Moretonhampstead Fire
Station, which
was withdrawn by communications firm mmO2 (UK) Ltd, after
the fire
service said it did not want the masts on its land - Devon
Fire
Authority later banned masts and aerials from its stations;
Firm mm02 being asked to submit new plans for an alternative
site for a
45ft-high mast alongside the new A30 at Gittisham, near Honiton;
Residents in Pennsylvania currently fighting an application
to install
additional equipment on a police mast.
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Informant: Reinhard Rueckemann
Ban
on cellphone use by young drivers urged
By Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, 6/4/2003
WASHINGTON -- Young drivers should not be allowed to use
cellphones when
they get behind the wheel, US traffic safety officials said
yesterday
after reviewing a fatal crash involving a 20-year-old who
was on a
mobile phone when she lost control of her sport utility vehicle.
The Feb. 1, 2002, accident on the Capital Beltway outside
Washington
killed five people, including the driver, who had purchased
the SUV that
day and who made or received 15 calls on her mobile phone
in the four
hours before the crash.
''The accident-driver's distraction due to the wireless telephone
conversation with her friend contributed to her loss of control
of the
vehicle,'' the National Transportation Safety Board concluded
after a hearing.
Gusty winds nudged the car to the right, and the driver steered
to the
left, sending the car hurtling across a median and into oncoming
traffic, where it landed on a minivan, killing four adults
near Largo, Md.
The safety board acknowledged other factors in the accident
-- the wind
and the outdated median barriers among them -- but concluded
that
inexperience coupled with the use of a mobile phone was enough
to merit
curbs for young drivers.
Among the fifty states, only New York bars drivers with learner's
permits and intermediate licenses from using wireless devices
while they
drive. The board urged the other states to adopt such laws.
To help track any correlation between mobile phone use and
traffic
accidents, the board has asked states to add codes to their
accident
investigation forms that take driver distraction into account.
Only 16
states have such codes now.
The board's investigators said 24 countries have bans on
mobile phone
use by drivers.
The board's project manager, Michele McMurtry, listed various
things
that could distract drivers, ranging from disciplining children
to
adjusting the radio to swatting a bug. ''In particular, in
the
Washington area, we see a lot of people reading newspapers,
magazines,
books,'' McMurtry said.
She said a mobile phone or other distraction might hold a
driver's
attention for one to 1 1/2 seconds, enough time for a fast-moving
vehicle to travel 200 feet.
There are about 145 million cellphone users in the United
States, and
about 67 percent of licensed drivers have cellphones.
This story ran on page A2 of the Boston Globe on 6/4/2003.
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Ban_on_cellphone_use_by_young_drivers_urged+.shtml
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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O.T.
Some very important themes
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Enronization Of Public Policy
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Message from Arianna Huffington
Pentagon
Tool Records User's Every Sense
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ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pentagon_super_diary_3
Informant: Harlan Girard
Ex-weapons
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regime change in Washington
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National Press Club Invites Ramsey Clark to be Featured Speaker
at
Upcoming May 12 Luncheon in Washington, D.C.
As the country prepares to enter the next election cycle,
Ramsey Clark
will make a national address on how "U.S. Militarism
Threatens the
Destiny of Humanity," at the National Press Club on May
12. Mr. Clark
will also charge George W. Bush and his administration with
committing
high crimes and misdemeanors warranting impeachment. For those
in the
D.C. metropolitan area who would like to attend in person,
advance
reservations can be made by telephoning the Press Club at
(202)
662-7501. For additional information on the luncheon event
go to:
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12&&whatyear=2003&&whatmonth=5
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The
Silent Genocide from America
http://www.rense.com/general37/InvisibleGenocid.html
Informant: Jonathan Mark
Ex-army
chief: Pentagon lied about occupation Telegraph [UK]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/04/wirq04.xml
Blair
faces probe over WMD threat - CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/06/03/blair.weapons.probe/
How
the big lie about Iraq came to be
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Wolfowitz:
war was about oil Guardian Unlimited [UK]
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
US
sets new plan of attack for North Korea
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=756
Views
of a Changing World 2003
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=185
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