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Norfolk Police Officers To Be Tagged To Improve Response Times

Posted by samzenpus on from the car-54-I-know-exactly-where-you-are dept.

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.

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  1. Reports indcate... by locust · · Score: 3, Funny

    That the tracking system is turn based and isometric.

    1. Re:Reports indcate... by Itninja · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nice! I hope it's called XCOM: Terror from the streets.

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  2. Re:That's a myth.. by Daemonax · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's no moon! That's a werewolf power station!

  3. Pfft by martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Insert Donut Shop Joke Here by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better be careful there. If their tracking software tries to calculate the distance between vehicles there is potential for a divide by zero error in the vicinity of the donut shop.

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  5. Re:Can they be tazed as well? by McGiraf · · Score: 3, Funny

    "... They are humans too. ..." [citation needed]