Sliced Verizon Cable Affected Tampa Police Radio Service
Among those connections was the entire radio communications system for the Tampa Police Department.
"We went into an emergency mode as if a hurricane had hit," police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.
The radio system started emitting a busy signal, so dispatchers switched to the department's own antenna, McElroy said. Officers for the most part could hear the dispatch center, but officers had to respond through text messages via laptop computers in their patrol cars, she said…
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