[TheList] Waikato AOS incident

Sun Aug 13 15:49:17 AEST 2017

Spent a few hours listening to all this unfold last night, just after
midnight. For those who aren't aware of it, the cops were chasing a late
model Commodore for failing to stop after it was seen doing 90 in a 50 k
area.
They followed it to the outskirts of Morrinsville, where it stopped and the
driver got out and pointed what is believed to be an AK-47 at them and
started letting off rounds. The photos on the news sites show the squad car
windscreen peppered with bullet holes.
During all of this they called Eagle in, but were having problems
communicating with the helo and at one stage one of the senior cops said to
another one that he was going to set up coms with Eagle on 'encrypted
channel F11'.
It would seem then that Waikato cops have radios (perhaps not issued to
everyone) which have digital capability.
It is the first time I have ever heard a cop calling 'ten-ten' (and calling
it multiple times) on the radio and I hope I never hear it again.
It would seem that if Eagle does have an analog radio with all the North
Island channels programmed, it obviously wasn't working properly.
In a situation like this, reliable coms is imperative. At one stage the
Waikato channel locked up (probably a link-line issue) and was unusable for
about 5 minutes.
I take my hat off to the bravery of these guys who put their lives on the
line every day in front of loose units with guns.
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