A police force said today it will help reduce costs by not renewing its music licence, meaning that officers will no longer be able to listen to the radio at work.
Cash-strapped Sussex Police said it will save at least £23,000 a year – equivalent to putting one more officer on the beat – by the cost-cutting measure.
Sussex Police Federation chairman Bob Brown said the force has previously paid the money to the Performing Rights Society (PRS), which collects on behalf of musicians
I’m not here to debate whether the cops should be listening to music while on the job but I am here to point out the complete and utter insanity of a police force being forced to pay for the right for their officers to listen to broadcast radio.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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