Tait Electronics has won a 2-year contract to supply the South African Police Services (SAPS) with mobile and portable radio communications products.

The company has sent the first shipment of mobiles and portables to its exclusive South African distributor, Emcom, as part of a two-year terminals contract with SAPS. The deal, worth NZ$6m over the two years, is for the supply of T2020 mobiles and T5020 portables.

"Our offer was based upon the proven T2020 mobile transceiver, and T5020 portable transceiver," says Emcom Major Accounts Manager Ron Farnham.

"We are encouraged by the fact that the SAPS technical evaluation team chose to subject all competing products to rigorous physical testing, and not base their award upon price and brochures alone!Tait Electronics manufactures quality products and, quite frankly I'm not surprised we came out tops for both requirements," Mr Farnham says.

Tait mobile and portable radios have provided dependable communications in various units of the SAPS, are well known by the SAPS radio technical support units, and have been successfully deployed in mission critical applications.

Tait products have been extensively used within the SAPS for the last decade. The Tait T800 base station/repeater was the high-site equipment of choice when the SAPS upgraded their national system from 40MHz to 400MHz.

Emcom Africa has contributed its expertise and assistance in many SAPS related projects, including supplying the radio communications, encompassing mobile, portable, repeater, base station and GPS based Automatic Vehicle Location systems for two presidential inaugurations, numerous international conferences and a few confidential requirements.

"This project will once again highlight our professional ability to support the SAPS in the fulfilment of its endeavours," says Mr Farnham.