Thursday, 6 March 2008

Street Lamp bugs to pinpoint gun gangs

POLICE want to hide microphones on city lampposts to beat gun gangs.The hi-tech listening devices are so sophisticated they pinpoint the location of a shot to within 25 feet.They immediately trigger an alarm in the police control room. The bugs are fine-tuned so they can distinguish between a real shot and a car backfiring or a firework.

They are set up to listen only for gunshots and cannot be used to eavesdrop on conversations.Some 24 microphones will cover a square mile.

COMMENT

Well I don't quite know what to make of this. Can we honestly believe that these "microphones" will not pick up audible conversations. Next we will be having little pin hole cameras coming out of street drains. Roll on bonfire night, the police are going to have a busy night aren't they. Welcome to the Labour Party twenty first century fascist "spying" police state.

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