http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1907422 <http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1907422&version= 1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.4.1> &version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.4.1 More Police Equipped For Dirty Bombs Thousands more police officers will be equipped to deal with chemical, biological or nuclear terror attacks under Government plans to buy new protective suits. The Home Office has put out to tender a contract to provide it with 12,000 personal protection suits in the event of a dirty bomb attack. The department emphasised that it was not in response to any specific threat. The high-tech suits will be used over the next few years to replace the 7,000 currently in use, and to make available an extra 5,000 to existing police officers. A Home Office spokesman said: "We constantly look at what our needs are to ensure that we have the resources we need to maintain public safety, which is our priority." He emphasised that police who used the suits in the event of a dirty bomb attack were normal officers with extra training. It meant 12,000 suits did not equate to 12,000 dedicated chemical, biological or nuclear terror attack officers. But the Home Office told Sky News that more officers will also be trained to deal with dirty bombs. The protection suit contract is being advertised on the Official Journal of the European Union website. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
