Reported in the Kenilworth Weekly News (a paper I trust) - our local police are to take part in a three-month pilot scheme to pilot new headcam technology.
See the full article Here.
Now this intrigued me because I was really not aware that we had local police on 'on the beat' in our Town, let alone officers who have been 'technologically advanced' in this way.
My reasons for labouring under this, obviously mistaken, illusion?
Well - the last time I needed to access the 'thin blue line' - I had a real job on my hands. Not seeing (or expecting to see) any bobbies 'on the beat' - incidentally are WPC's also 'bobbies' ? - I called in at the local police station only to find it closed up.
Now this wasn't an emergency, but something less urgent that I needed to report. It was very inconvenient and impressed I was most definitely not!
So - to learn that we now have police officers patrolling locally is good news. To hear that we have our own versions of 'Robo-Cop' is even better news - as any 'edge' that we can give the police is to be welcomed.
However, every town still needs a police station in my opinion. I'm not sure if ours is still partially 'moth-balled' as I've not needed it lately, but if it is, perhaps the said 'tooled up' officers could do a quick tour of the inside of the station and post the resultant video on YouTube as a 'virtual tour' so that we don't get to feel so deprived...
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