By Sophie Borland for the Daily Mail
Published: 00:55 BST, 10 May 2019 | Updated: 00:55 BST, 10 May 2019
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An upgraded radio system for police, fire and ambulance crews will be at least five years late and £3billion more expensive than planned, a report out today warns.
The project is meant to allow 999 services to share a super-fast communications network run by the mobile giant EE.
It will be far more advanced than the current system and, for example, it will allow fire crews to watch videos of a blaze as they travel to the scene.
But a report by the Government spending watchdog predicts that the Emergency Services Network (ESN) will not be in use until 2022 at the very earliest. And it lays the blame on the Home Office.
The system was overseen by Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill when permanent secretary at the Home Office between 2013 and 2017.
An upgraded radio system for police, fire and ambulance crews will be at least five years late and £3billion more expensive than planned, a report out today warns (file photo)
Last month he was criticised by MPs over the ESN and another botched project he supervised, the Disclosure and
