[Scan-DC] Officer's radio fished out of septic tank

[Joel Kahn]

Sorry for this in advance, but ........ this sounds like a crop of crap to me!
and how much do they pay the guy who had to go into the tank to retrieve the radio?

Joel R Kahn

jrkahn at att.net

--- On Wed, 3/28/12, Sean Hoyden <sean.hoyden at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Sean Hoyden <sean.hoyden at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Officer's radio fished out of septic tank
To: "Alan Henney" <alan at henney.com>
Cc: "Scan DC" <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 7:36 AM


"Hang Ha Po" -  you can't make this stuff up.  

Sean Hoyden
703.899.8893

On Mar 28, 2012, at 12:19 AM, "Alan Henney" <alan at henney.com> wrote:

> 
> South China Morning Post
> 
> March 27, 2012 Tuesday
> 
> Officer's radio fished out of septic tank
> 
> BYLINE: Clifford Lo clifford.lo at scmp.com
> 
> SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 03
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> LENGTH: 254 words
> 
> Sanitation workers yesterday retrieved a police digital walkie-talkie worth more than HK$20,000 from a public toilet in Tai Po, where it had been accidentally dropped into a septic tank by a police officer over the weekend. 
> 
> A team from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, responding to a police request for help, took nearly three hours to retrieve the device from the three-metre-deep tank beneath the toilet at Hang Ha Po, off Lam Kam Road.
> 
> The radio fell into the tank at about 8.45pm on Saturday, after a plainclothes officer visited the toilet while on patrol with three colleagues during an anti-burglary operation. She immediately reported the loss to her commander.
> 
> Officers guarded the toilet for the next two days, until the FEHD could respond. Sewage was pumped out before a worker went into the tank to retrieve the walkie-talkie. 
> 
> Police said the 27-year-old policewoman, who has been with the Tai Po divisional task force for about two years, had placed the device on top of a tissue-roll holder.
> 
> She would probably receive a verbal warning for negligence, an officer said.
> 
> "It appears to be a careless act, but each officer is responsible for handling and keeping their equipment properly," the officer said.
> 
> According to police, communication between the walkie-talkie and the control centre had been disconnected after it was reported missing.
> 
> The device is part of the force's third-generation Command and Control Communications system, which is digitally encrypted to prevent illegal scanners eavesdropping.
> 
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