"Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
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"Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
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Re: "Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
#2Sounds reasonable, but what are the MP's going to do, since that's the only part of them able to talk?
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#3> UK officials are considering banning the sale of small mobile phones designed to resemble car key fobs.
Prisoner with a phone-shaped object: suspicious. Prisoner with car keys: not suspicious?
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#4Wouldn't it make more sense to make prisons mobile signal dead-zones?
Re: "Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
#5> UK officials are considering banning the sale of small mobile phones designed to resemble car key fobs. Prisoner with a phone-shaped object: suspicious. Prisoner with car keys: not suspicious?
I suspect it would be to do with spotting visitors bringing in illicit mobile phones not prisoners.
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#6> UK officials are considering banning the sale of small mobile phones designed to resemble car key fobs. Prisoner with a phone-shaped object: suspicious. Prisoner with car keys: not suspicious?
Person taking car keys into the visiting room: not suspicious.
Re: "Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
#7Wouldn't it make more sense to make prisons mobile signal dead-zones?
Yeah or just track all calls from inside the prison and build a map of who the criminals are talking to good source of intel.
SOCA obviously needs to get away from the cop on the beat mentality and think outside the box.
And stoping the rip of charges for inmates using the legitimate phone inside the prisons would stop the use of phone cards as an internal currency.
Re: "Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
#8Wouldn't it make more sense to make prisons mobile signal dead-zones?
I believe there was an issue with guards needing to be able to use their mobile phones in an emergency. The majority of the Prison service use TETRA radios now which can be linked in to the rest of the UK mainland emergency services so it shouldn't be an issue but there seemed to be a lot of reluctance so that there was a backup in the event everything else failed.
Re: "Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
#9Wouldn't it make more sense to make prisons mobile signal dead-zones?
or just insist that the prisoners use orange or ee as it is now.
Re: "Let's ban tiny phones" - UK Government
#10> UK officials are considering banning the sale of small mobile phones designed to resemble car key fobs. Prisoner with a phone-shaped object: suspicious. Prisoner with car keys: not suspicious?
Both are suspicious circumstances, but this is more to target people taking phones into prisons concealed as something else.