New
Server
Scan North has moved to a new
server with web hosting company New
Beginnings Digital Media. They have some excellent hosting
packages and came highly recommended. (p.s. Can I have my tenner
now?)
A
Letter from Northumbria Police
Northumbria Police's solicitors
have written to my web hosting company (Webfusion) and ordered
me to remove all police frequencies from this website, frequencies
which you could easily obtain by buying a book in WH Smiths or
from your local library! I was told that if I did not comply with
this request then the entire Scan North website would be removed.
They are of the opinion that publishing police frequencies constitutes
an act of inciting people to break the law!
Apparently, as the website is hosted
on a shared server it is the hosting company who are legally responsible
, not me, as they are effectively the publishers of that information.
Naturally they want to protect their business.
To be fair to them they have been
very polite about this and have given me the opportunity to remove
the offending content whilst keeping the rest of the site up,
some web hosts would have simply taken the entire site down.
As I do not wish to have the entire
Scan North website taken down I have complied with this request.
I have requested a copy of this letter and will give you more
details when I receive it.
As I am unable to publish police
frequency information anymore, all I can do is recommend that
you pop into WH Smiths or any large bookshop and order a copy
of the UK Scanning Directory (ISBN 1 900455 11 5) pictured below.
You can order it directly from the publishers (Interproducts)
at their website http://www.interproducts.ukf.net
Click for bigger picture
Scan North has been on the web
for over 3 years now and will continue to be here, albeit without
police frequencies (which I thought were supposed to be encrypted!).
The police have started moving
over to the Airwave Digital system as I write, so as it happens,
these frequencies would have become obsolete in a matter of months
anyway.
I hope you understand why I have
had to comply with their request, and of course their has always
been more to the hobby of scanning than just listening to the
police!
I would be very interested to hear
your views and opinions on this matter.
Scan North Webmaster
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1st September, 2003