§ Mr. George Robertsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is Home Office specification BR14 as applied to police radar equipment; to what it is applied; and to what purpose.
§ Mr. RaisonThe Home Office leaflet BR14 sets out the technical and operating conditions relating to the use of radio frequencies for low power, non-speech devices as part of the overall framework of radio regulation which is designed to ensure the efficient use of the radio spectrum and to prevent as far as possible the risk of interference between different users of radio. Police radar equipment using the 10.587 GHz band must meet the conditions appropriate to the use of that band as set out in the leaflet.