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.

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Great

[dmomo]

Hopefully this will bring some accountability. They can conceivable track the speed of police vehicles to make sure they are obeying traffic laws when not responding to an emergency. It can also be used to verify that an officer was where they were when they said they were there. Of course, this would only be affective if their friends back at the station weren't the ones monitoring.

Watching the watchers...

[migla]

Hopefully also useful for letting people know who was clobbering them.

Re:Location issues currently

[cayenne8]

This will be cool, when someone is able to crack the system, and be able to monitor the cops as a part of the general public.

They could put this in with Google maps....which would be cool. You see a large group of cop 'dots' in a group, you know THAT is the spot to go for doughnuts.

You see cop dots on the map along the highway...slow down or you'll get a ticket.

If you're a criminal, well, that ones obvious.

Interesting scenarios come to mind....