Anyway British police are interestred also :
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Police test a safer stopper
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Uk Times Online
February 12, 2006
British police are considering using an American tracking system that
could end the need for dangerous high-speed car chases. StarChase,
which is currently being tested by police in Los Angeles, enables
officers to fire a tiny, sticky GPS tracker onto a fleeing vehicle from
a laser-targeted gun, either hand-held or attached to the police
car's grille.
Officers can then track the car's route by satellite and pinpoint a
safe place to intercept.
Police in the UK hope the system will help cut the number of people
killed and injured by police cars each year, which rose by 60% between
2002-03 and 2003-04 to 31 deaths and more than 2,000 injuries in
England and Wales.
To stop rogue drivers police often rely on a "stinger", a strip of
spikes placed in the path of a vehicle to puncture its tyres.
Inspector John Pendleton of the Metropolitan police said: "Only last
year two police officers in Leicestershire were killed while trying to
employ a stinger.
We need to look into it but this new system certainly sounds like a
good idea."
Source:
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22749-2034360,00.html
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