The latest new piece of police technology could be set to cause a fair bit of controversy. Met Police officers in London are all set to start using cameras on their uniforms to capture images from crime scene. The plan is also to use these body cameras to increase levels of transparency and to help get convictions get pushed through more quickly. To start with, 500 of...
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At least seven police officers in the United Kingdom have resigned, two have been sacked and 150 are facing disciplinary action for posting inappropriate comments or photos on social networking site Facebook in the last four years. Police officers used the website to comment on other people’s wives, harass other people and brag about beating up people during protests....
On Thursday, we posted a story about another lost iPhone 5 prototype in a bar in San Francisco. The story is very similar to what happened more than a year earlier when an Apple engineer lost an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar, which was found and sold to tech website Gizmodo. CNET has reported this story about an employee from Apple who lost the new iPhone in a tequila bar...
The Santa Cruz Police Department in California, USA has implemented a predictive policing project, which began on 1st July and will end after six months, to help police officers predict certain crime types before it happens. The authorities will be using a complicated math equation, similar to the algorithm used for predicting earthquake aftershocks. Through the model,...
Police officers who are investigating the the riots in London will be able to track down and arrest those who are responsible based on their BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) conversations with those who took part. BlackBerry owners who used the social network to send messages and plan the unrest, could find their personal data, including their names and those they contacted,...
Greater Manchester Police have rolled out a spoof website to raise awareness and prevent drunken and disorderly behaviour over the Christmas period. The website known as ‘The Drunken Disorderly Inn’ is set up like an advertising and booking portal for a hotel and takes visitors through the different ‘facilities’ they could expect to see should they fall foul of...