How It Works

POLICE TECHNOLOGY EXPLAINED

In police departments all over the world, officers need to be prepared for any emergency. Whether it involves suiting up in armour to tackle rioting mobs, safely alerting road users of diversions or launching into a high-speed car chase, the latest developments in all necessary equipment need to be available. In almost every stage of attending to a case, a police officer will rely on specially designed technology to make their evidence, arrests and convictions as fair as possible.

Police officers can’t be everywhere at once. Before cameras were invented and made readily available, arrests could only be made by the luck of an observation

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