This month every on duty Met cop will be under constant individual surveillance from a big brother tracking computer.
Police force keeps tabs on officers
Janes Police Review (extract)
10 April 2008
The force will be able to pinpoint the exact location of every police officer
THERE will be nowhere for Met officers to hide after July when the force plans to introduce electronic tracking of all its officers.
Supervisors will be able to pinpoint the exact location of every on-duty officer in the force area when it introduces the Automated Personal Location System.
The Met said this will enhance the safety of its 31,000 officers and allow them to be sent to incidents more quickly,
The Met Police Federation has cautiously welcomed the scheme but warned that the system has 'an element of Big Brother to it'.
The system is one of the largest of its kind in the world, according to Telent, the company behind the technology, although neither the force nor Telent would give any more information about exactly how the system will work or what sort of devices officers will wear.
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29.07.2008 15:14
A small hand held box designed to pick up the signal emitted by police and alert you when plod get's within a preset radius.
Whether the output is wired to a buzzer or a detonator is your choice.
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I heard a rumour that those things give you cancer.
29.07.2008 17:49
But Telent say their system will track Met Plod underground and overground. I don't know how far Met Police are allowed go underground. Isn't there some ancient statute which seperates TubePlod from Met? So really the technical difficulties of choosing the frequencies on the GSM/GPRS network to track Met would be the challenges of locating them inside buildings rather than under them. It can't be very good for community policing and those little chats with old folks and grasses which aren't logged as official and billed service. Which is pretty much what "an officer from Peckham" had to say in this other link on a fascinating story without that much coverage.
beep beep (bzzzt) crackle ((plod)) beep beep (((proceed on your way)))
How is this news?
30.07.2008 09:40
Concerned of Halton Moor