Security of Electricity Sub-Stations
Posted by scrubsupwell on Thursday, 01 March 2007 21:13:42
Dear David,
On 24th February last Saturday a power outage in my neighbourhood, which lasted twenty minutes, was caused by 'persons unknown' throwing a breaker in an electricity sub-station. An examination of sub-stations in the suburb revealed two broken locks and a station filled with old washing machines and tumble driers
There seems to be a case for a review of the laws relating to sub-station security. Will you tick an agenda box for a question to be asked in the house. The incident caused corruption of a database server that did not have power back-up. Also a terrorist or criminal could easily cut power and disable multiple alarms and enhance non-detection of burglars (especially on a dark night) because of loss of power to street lights and shop security lights.
criminals, electricity, power loss, burglary