NYPD wants to jam mobile mobile phones in case of a terrorist attack

While we’re all against jamming mobile phones by the government bodies, I must admit I can understand the police of New York, which is studying the feasibility of disrupting mobile phone communications between terrorists during any attack.

This comes after revelations that gunmen in Mumbai, India received electronic transmissions during their killing spree in November.

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly raised the possibility at a recent Senate hearing, but also noted there were technological hurdles to shutting down cellular service in a narrow location, like a hotel or movie theater.

Later, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said the department wanted to preserve the option of monitoring conversations between terrorists, adding that any plan to shut electronics transmissions was “only in the discussion stage.”

[Via: The New York Times]