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Norfolk Police Officers To Be Tagged To Improve Response Times
Police in Norfolk, England already have tracking units, The Automatic Vehicle Location System, installed in their cars that allow a control room to track their exact locations. Later this year a similar system will be attached to individual police radios to allow controllers to monitor the position of every frontline officer. Combined with equipment that can pinpoint the locations of 999 callers, the system will allow the force to home in on "shouts" to within yards. The system also lets operators filter a map showing the location of its vehicles and constables to reveal only those with the skills needed for a specific incident, like the closest officer with silver bullets during a werewolf attack.
There wolf... There castle
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That the tracking system is turn based and isometric.
That's no moon! That's a werewolf power station!
They already tried the system in Australia, but it failed because most people didn't want to dial 666 even if their life depended on it.
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Yeah, I know it's a cliche. Actually, our local cops are at the diner, not the donut shop. But diners are a regional thing. Donut shops are pretty much worldwide.
The last time I wrote code, it was Morse
That's no moon! That's a werewolf power station!
I think it is an Solar Power Relay Satellite. Tim S
This sounds like a job for Team America World Police
*grumbles* What did we do to deserve this? --Techwolf
This technology would destroy the plots of old TV shows like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_54_where_are_you. Hollywood would condemn it.
But we're all too young to have ever seen that TV show . . . aren't we?
On the other hand Hollywood celebrities might like the technology if someone could build scanners that spot police cars. If you read http://www.tmz.com/, you would know that those wacky celebrities always manage to bump into a cop while buying drugs, soliciting teenage whores, beating their spouses, etc.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
So? You just need to connect to the police server, over a grid of sattelites, trough a russian vpn tunnel, and get the password for the server via social engineering... It's almost too easy, Wayne!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
That's a met car, not a Norfolk car. Norfolk squad cars look like this: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2132/2279892412_ab358a0a60.jpg
Living in Norwich, I found it extremely amusing that the only Doughnut shop listed from the above search on googlemaps,is in, wait for it,Wymondham! For those not in the know, the Norfolk Constabulary HQ is in, yep, you guessed it - Wymondham!! http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=DoughnutORdonutshopinNorwich http://www.norfolk.police.uk/article.cfm?artID=6439&catID=729&bctrail=0
"... They are humans too. ..." [citation needed]