Police officers to trial mobile devices to access databases and to file reports.
Computing reports on the UK trial, stating that the key benefits are: efficiency gains because officers no longer have to return to a station to file a report; also speed of access to information is improved for officers, in some cases from minutes to seconds.
In related news the BBC report that residents of Doncaster, UK, will be able to email and phone officers on the beat. A helpline will connect callers to an officer's mobile phone.
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