When IT Meets Politics: Blackberry (not Twitter) versus Airwave for control of the streets

I have been correctly criticized for failing to point out that the Blackberry has been the fashion accessary of choice for "rappers", "elders" and their followers ever since it was used by Obama as his communications device of choice. Twitter is used only by middle class hangers-on and spectators. That raises the way in which the police have failed to keep up with up with the use of technology to strip out layers of paperwork and improve command and control. A case in point is the disintegrated and sclerotic operational communications systems which enabled the ambushing of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall earlier this year. Perhaps a first step should be