starlaugh wrote:
I posted about these machines a little while ago when Thames Valley bought one, I read a bit about it and it seems like it is easy to get a false positive. It happened to a welsh MP when they first got their hands on one :laugh_at:
true, but just like a metal detector or a radio receiver it can be tuned to reject excessive signal and pick up what is wanted….
At the moment these devices are too sensitive for something like policing a festival, but as they are used more and more the cops will learn the techniques on how to use them
they don’t cost much more than training a real live dog, and don’t get tired/need walkies/food etc…
the cops had a lot of teething problems with their new airwave radios, but now they are succesfully using them – there is a new breed of copper about these days who is as IT/technology literate as any of us are and willing to use their knowledge to enforce the law.
Not quite robocop, but simply sort of person who worked in an office during the dot-com days but got downsized/made redundant and joined the police…
