security
Protecting the world’s leaders at the G-20
As South Korea made ready to host last November’s summit meeting of the G-20 group of world leaders, to be held in Asia for the fi rst time, Incheon Metropolitan Police Authority upgraded its TETRA network to meet the challenge. Peter Clemons, TETRA Association board member, visited the city to hear the summit’s communications story
Above: workstations in the control
centre of Incheon Metropolitan
Police Authority, South Korea
conurbations. Incheon International Airport, built on reclaimed land
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between two former islands off the South Korean coast, has become a major hub for North East Asia, driving the local economy and the Korean transportation network. And the
ith a population now approaching three million in the city itself and its surrounding area, Incheon is one of South Korea’s fastest growing
city of Incheon has become the major gateway into South Korea, with easy access to the capital city, Seoul, less than an hour away by road. At the impressive police headquarters in the heart of
Incheon, Mr Kim Byung Hak, director of the radio division for Incheon Metropolitan Police Authority (IMPA), explains that IMPA separated from the National Police Authority as recently as 1987, at about the time when the population of
Police headquarters in Incheon City, hub of an expanding TETRA-based public safety radio network
Peter Clemons
(right) is a member of the TETRA
Association’s board and is also director of communications for Teltronic
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The author inspects a Nebula base station supplied to Incheon MPA by the Spanish radiocommunications equipment manufacturer Teltronic
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