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Press advocates say that the surge in encryption is a reaction to the demand for police accountability after 2020.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/uOMPf

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That was really late.

In Sweden, police radio has been encrypted since they switched to the current system called Rakel in 2010.
The police are also not the only users of Rakel. Some users include the military, emergency services, various government orgs, and a bunch others.

The system is run by MSB (Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Similar in the UK. Ours is called Airwave and came in in the early 2000s.

https://www.airwavesolutions.co.uk/the-service/emergency-services-network/