A new report compiled by researchers at the University of Essex has revealed that the Met Police's LFR CCTV system only gets a successful match 19% of the time, a damning result for the technology.
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The Metropolitan police is devising a new system that will allow residents of London to make calls to them via smart speakers. Internally, it said that this could be the beginning of the end for 999.
London's top cop explained he'd want a system that allowed law enforcement officers to remotely take over and stop a car if it was deemed necessary. The idea was part of a wider conversation on IT.
The Met is paying Microsoft £1.65m to provide extended support for its 27,000 Windows XP PCs until April. By the end of September, 6,000 of those systems will be upgraded... to Windows 8.1.
London's Metropolitan Police says that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, related to last week's attack on the TalkTalk website.
