Police in England are to use laser scanners at the scene of serious road accidents, so they can clear crashes more quickly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14091873

I bet they read about Rockingham development before

If that can help solving the case faster and giving an reliable answer on what happend, that is a great new gadget

Well, if we ever get a track editor in LFS, we now know where to get some laser scanning equipment.

As long as those scanners can open up the closed roads faster then it's a good investment for the UK.

Only 20 scanners for the entire UK sounds funny though

A handful of police forces have been trialling them for a few years and the results have always come back positive. The investment plus running even comes back cheaper than paying RTC officers to do it the old school way. Of course this means some RTC officers will lose their jobs or get moved to a different department.

It is only 20 for England though, as England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own bodies who need to certify the use of items each. Means a shit load extra in costs, but that is devolution for you. Inefficiency and unequal application of nationally funded services.

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Only 20 scanners for the entire UK sounds funny though

i guess the only use it in cities where a lot of accidents happen?

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i guess the only use it in cities where a lot of accidents happen?

i bet they got one in the city where eric lives

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Police in England are to use laser scanners at the scene of serious road accidents, so they can clear crashes more quickly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14091873

I bet they read about Rockingham development before

It's been used for quite a while tbh.

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If that can help solving the case faster and giving an reliable answer on what happend, that is a great new gadget

It's not done to make things easier to solve - it's just meant to get the road open sooner. I.E. there was a fatal accident on a busy motorway ~5PM, and it was not until dawn that the motorway was re-opened. That has a massive (hidden) cost on the economy.

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i guess the only use it in cities where a lot of accidents happen?

I would wager there aren't that many police forces in the UK (maybe around 20) and each one is only likely to have one or two collision specialists.

Remember that this technology is only needed in a fatal or incident involving "life changing" injuries where a record must be taken - it's very rarely (luckily) needed.

I watch far too many traffic-police shows... I have 60GB of them on my HDD

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I watch far too many traffic-police shows... I have 60GB of them on my HDD

Haha, I knew you watch too many traffic cop shows because I recognised that line from Traffic Cops the other day.

I quite enjoyed Road Wars.

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Haha, I knew you watch too many traffic cop shows because I recognised that line from Traffic Cops the other day.

I quite enjoyed Road Wars.

Road Wars is ok, but I much much prefer BBC's "Traffic Cops" - it's a lot better quality (and doesn't always end up strip-searching some drug dealer to find he's got 40KG of Heroin in his rectum), it's just a shame it's so hard to find older episodes.

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Road Wars is ok, but I much much prefer BBC's "Traffic Cops" - it's a lot better quality (and doesn't always end up strip-searching some drug dealer to find he's got 40KG of Heroin in his rectum), it's just a shame it's so hard to find older episodes.

The last 5 episodes of Traffic Cops I've watched ended up strip searching some guy to find drugs. In fact, every damn episode has resulted in drugs somewhere. Also made me realise if you want to get away with a crime, do it during Ramadan when the cops are fasting.

I used to follow a chap on YouTube who had damn near every episode of every police/hmcustoms based show, but got pulled. Now all he has is this, which is a little shitty.

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The last 5 episodes of Traffic Cops I've watched ended up strip searching some guy to find drugs. In fact, every damn episode has resulted in drugs somewhere. Also made me realise if you want to get away with a crime, do it during Ramadan when the cops are fasting.

I used to follow a chap on YouTube who had damn near every episode of every police/hmcustoms based show, but got pulled. Now all he has is this, which is a little shitty.

his YT account was better.