June 5, 2009

What the gadget police use today

When we look at sci fi or futuristic films the police are often portrayed has having access to all sorts of technical gadgetry, this begs the question as to what sort of gadgets do the police have at their disposal or is fiction running away with its imagination.

It seems that as technology becomes smaller and cheaper the more that technology is being used by the police, the gadgets that the police currently have at their disposal are:

Mobile Data Systems
Body-worn video cameras
Mobile CCTV
Breathalysers
Average speed cameras (SPECS)
Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
Tasers

This is just the tip of the technological iceberg, with the police getting more gadgets and access to the latest technology does this mean that more criminals will be caught or just that more ordinary members of the public who accidently drop a piece of litter or park in the wrong place are being fined.

Source [Tech Radar]