Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
LONDON — British officials have acquired a $64 million radio communications system to boost security for the 2012 London Olympics.The Home Office said Monday the Airwave system would be used by police, fire, ambulance and other emergency services during the games.British security minister Alan West says the system will benefit all 2012 host venue police forces and other counties which...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Service chiefs are normally fearful of being allied to a particular political party. There were some raised eyebrows among the military when Admiral Sir Alan West, a redoubtable First Sea Lord, accepted a peerage on retirement and entered the Labour Government as Security Minister at the Home Office, where he still resides.
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
General Sir Richard Dannatt's enlistment in the Tory defence team, on the day after he left the Army is an unprecedented event. It's also one that makes a great many people uncomfortable. In terms of precedent, or the lack of it, there is a recent one and a historical one, but neither quite matches these circumstances. Admiral Sir Alan West, formerly head of the Royal Navy, was appointed...
