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Police get 'Cop-Nav' radio
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by liamssoft | April 11, 2008 at 12:54 am
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A scheme costing taxpayers £250million called the Automated Personal Location System – known as 'CopNav' –where microchips are installed into radio headsets is to be issued to all London's Metropolitan Police officers.
A “COP-NAV” system is to monitor the movements of 30,000 police officers by satellite.
A microchip is to be put into every Met officer’s radio this summer.
Using technology similar to car sat-navs, Automated Personal Location will tell chiefs where PCs are at all times.
Steve Rands, head of Scotland Yard’s health and safety unit, said: “From an officer safety point of view this is a bloody good piece of kit.”
But Pete Smyth, chairman of the Met Police Federation, said: “This could involve an element of Big Brother. We need to look at it carefully.”
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at 05:54 on April 11th, 2008
liamssoft, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:14 on April 11th, 2008
Many thanks for the GS PEP.
The CopNav system, which will be provided by private contractor Telent, will be able to pinpoint Police to within the nearest metre across the Met's 1,600sq km (620sq mile) patch.
Critics claim that the officers will become little more than remote-controlled 'Robocops' , whilst supporters say if an officer is down and in need of help and nobody knows where they are, controllers will be able to pinpoint them immediately. The Met's old Airwaves system was criticised as ineffective during the July 7 terror attacks on London.
at 07:28 on April 11th, 2008
liamssoft, It would be good if the public has something so they can find a copper when they need one.
at 08:13 on April 11th, 2008
Many thanks for the GS and comment Vinny.
Hopefully the old saying 'you can never find a policeman when you need one' will be a thing of the past.