[ISN] Police put in tight jam

[InfoSec News]

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/11/19/7458486-sun.html

By BETH JOHNSTON
SUN MEDIA
November 19, 2008

The Mounties have warned every police agency in the country about 
cellphone jammers after two Quebec officers were left with two suspects 
and dead radios on a darkened highway shoulder last month.

It was Oct. 15 and the Quebec City police officers had stopped a car 
whose occupants they believed were connected with organized crime. When 
they approached the car, they saw "a suspicious device" on its door, 
police sources said.

The suspects told police they bought the "jammer" -- which sends out a 
powerful radio signal that makes it impossible for phones within a 
10-metre radius to communicate with cell towers -- on eBay.

The officers seized the jammer and alerted their criminal intelligence 
section. That section alerted the Cornwall integrated criminal 
intelligence section which sent the officer safety bulletin nationwide 
on Oct. 29.

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