Supporting the Police

I’ve always been very supportive of the Police.

The real problem now is that they are getting arrogant and remote from the general public and this will cause problems in the future, unless they reverse this slide.

Take Nottingham where the area is now riddled with speed cameras. Is there any connection to the high unsolved murder rate?

The Met need all the help they can get and what do they do, believe they are always right.

For instance, I have worked in instrumentation and analysis of data for nearly forty years. The police should be trawling this industry for solutions, but they are not. In the shooting at Stockwell, it is must be now possible to remotely check a suspected bomber for metal, explosives and such things as body functions like temperature and heart-rate.

But where is the device?

Senior Police don’t want to even look for such a device, as it isn’t macho and they know it can’t be developed.

But I know it can!

For a start, Beagle 2 featured a very low-weight mass spectrometer. I know about this sort of technique and if one could be put into a back-pack, then I think it would be possible for someone to walk alongside a suspected bomber and have a good sniff for explosives.

How about a two-person metal detector. One carries a low-post electro-magnetic source and the other the detector. If they then walked past the suspect in the opposite direction, with one going either side, a complete magnetic signature could be taken. How do I know about this sort of technology? Well I worked on it over forty years ago, to detect very small pieces of metal in copper wires. All you need is relative movement and it would be easy to check for anything bigger than a belt buckle.

So that's just two ideas.

Throw it open to the weird and wacky scientists of this world and other ideas will be suggested that are much better than these.

Are the police doing this?

I doubt it.