Distressed UK police chief, Michael Todd, might potentially have been saved
if British E-122 location based emergency services had been in existence - it
seems. Mistakes were made by rescuers trying to find him near to the top of
Mount Snowdon in Wales. Since Todd's body was recovered from the mountain, reports have claimed that
rescuers spent Monday night trying to locate him in the wrong place because of
mistakes they made in their attempts to locate the signal from his Blackberry
mobile phone. The UK has yet to fully emulate the US with its E-911 initiative and force
mobile networks to install location awareness technology that can help to
pinpoint emergency calls made from mobile phones. Ironically, it was text messages being sent from Mr Todd's Blackberry which
sparked the search for him in the first place. It's a tribute to the cellular
networks that he was able to send such texts even though he was about 100 feet
from the summit. Mobile phone records revealed that he had sent ' harrowing' text messages to
his wife, children and other family members, but it was a text sent to a female
police colleague which actually triggered the search.
