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This year, Japanese cops are getting a major upgrade in their policing skills—they're going to get superhero power equipment to help them fight kidnappers.
The Metropolitan Police Department is buying a Wall Through Radar, which can detect objects on the other end of a solid wall, and 80 headsets with air-activated transmitters that can hear things way beyond the capability of the normal human ear. The MPD is citing a gangster hostage crisis last April as its incentive to amp up its gear.
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couldnt they use that in the organized crime drpartment, to detect a gathering and listen in on their meetings?
Posted by: Dragonfang18 | January 10, 2008 at 06:02 PM
Robocops, at last!
Posted by: enrique | January 11, 2008 at 03:58 AM
This could be a weapon against privacy
Posted by: fedmich | January 12, 2008 at 08:11 AM