Motorola Solutions awarded statewide law enforcement radio system contract in Florida

Florida has decided to go with Motorola Solutions, awarding them a contract potentially worth hundred of millions of dollars to take over the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System. “Florida’s selection of Motorola Solutions to build a new statewide public safety radio system is a vote of confidence in our decades of successfully building mission-critical communications solutions throughout the state and nation,” the Chicago-based company said last week in a prepared statement. The state decided to part ways with Harris Corp., which now has the contract, due, in part, to concerns over spotty or failed service as well as problems with encryption meant to lock out non-law enforcement radios from being able to listen. Problems with communication gear have been raided by various law enforcement agencies.

Harris has held the SLERS contract, estimated to cost the state upward of $18 million a year, since Sept. 2000.

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