Police Plan to use UAVs on UK Population
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Linked Article said:
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
DoubleplusgoodThe arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
collateral said:
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When do we get Robocop?Linked Article said:
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
DoubleplusgoodThe arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
Northern Munkee said:
collateral said:
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When do we get Robocop?Linked Article said:
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
DoubleplusgoodThe arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
collateral said:
Northern Munkee said:
collateral said:
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When do we get Robocop?Linked Article said:
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
DoubleplusgoodThe arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.
Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.
Sort of like a flying OCP ED209? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED-209
Northern Munkee said:
Joking aside, I can remember watching Robocop at the local Odeon in 1987, thinking thats ridiculous, however unmanned UAV developed out of a military programme.
Sort of like a flying OCP ED209? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED-209
Or Terminator....Sort of like a flying OCP ED209? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED-209
(from XKCD)
Tell me about it lol
The wonderfull future awaits us guys...
The wonderfull future awaits us guys...
- Cars will use GPS systems to stick to the speed limit, if you try to go over the speed limit then your on-board computer will debit your bank account immediatly and credit your licence with points, if you are over 12 points, your car will immediatly stop dead, deadlock and await the arrival of a prison truck.
- All cars will be 0.6L, why would you need more! anymore will just burn children and kill the pretty flowers.
- Any person who shows a different view whilst in an influential role (scientist for example) will immediatly be told to get lost and made to resign...hang on that sounds familiar!
- The Climate change awareness course will be a compulsory lesson for youngsters in school. Brain scanners will check they actually agree with the goverment and are not just "nodding in the right bits"
ymwoods said:
Tell me about it lol
The wonderfull future awaits us guys...
As someone once saidThe wonderfull future awaits us guys...
- Cars will use GPS systems to stick to the speed limit, if you try to go over the speed limit then your on-board computer will debit your bank account immediatly and credit your licence with points, if you are over 12 points, your car will immediatly stop dead, deadlock and await the arrival of a prison truck.
- All cars will be 0.6L, why would you need more! anymore will just burn children and kill the pretty flowers.
- Any person who shows a different view whilst in an influential role (scientist for example) will immediatly be told to get lost and made to resign...hang on that sounds familiar!
- The Climate change awareness course will be a compulsory lesson for youngsters in school. Brain scanners will check they actually agree with the goverment and are not just "nodding in the right bits"
You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Sit back, watch and learn from history. This is a time they will call the silliness. There have been many others since that Jesus moron walked among us, but the pendulumn will swing back again and common sense will prevail.
Or perhaps I am just an optimist.
hairykrishna said:
xkcd
Completely OT, but I used to be on the same IRC channel as Randy circa 2001-4...pretty crazy to me he now has the most famous comic in the world! First time someone referenced the comic I thought 'nooo...must be a coinkydink' (xkcd was his nick on IRC). IIRC He used to hit on one of my mates pretty relentlessly 
Small world
loltolhurst said:
how long before councils start using them to monitor your bins etc why dont they just chip us all now and get it over with ffs
Bins are already being chipped to monitor what you throw away and how much you "recycle", they also monitor and record ANY contact between council staff and old care clients (old people/disabled etc) The next logical step as you say is for everybody to be tagged like dogs are something that would have in essence been achieved with a mandatory roll out of ID cards
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Big Brother is watching, the 2010 general election is an opportunity for people to make a change..............Conservative, UKIP, Lib Dem, Green, Independent, BNP, anybody but labour
AndrewW-G said:
loltolhurst said:
how long before councils start using them to monitor your bins etc why dont they just chip us all now and get it over with ffs
Bins are already being chipped to monitor what you throw away and how much you "recycle", they also monitor and record ANY contact between council staff and old care clients (old people/disabled etc) The next logical step as you say is for everybody to be tagged like dogs are something that would have in essence been achieved with a mandatory roll out of ID cards
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Big Brother is watching, the 2010 general election is an opportunity for people to make a change..............Conservative, UKIP, Lib Dem, Green, Independent, BNP, anybody but labour
How long before UAV's hover down to you, speaking in a 'big-brother like voice' giving you a caution under the Anti-terrorism legislation for over filling your bin and failing yesterdays task resulting in you being put under house arrest for a day...
When will it become compulsory to have a 'diary room' in your house so that you can be summoned and told off !?
When will it become compulsory to have a 'diary room' in your house so that you can be summoned and told off !?
This is a crock. The paper work to let the milatary use UAVs on closed ranges in danger areas is outragous. To have them flying around in open air space with all the other users won't happen anytime soon.
Someone thought it sounded like a good idea and forgot that in the real world you have passenger jets, helos, GA and all the military stuff wizzing about.
All it would take is someone putting the idea into the heads of the public, that a police UAV over London could drop an A380 with hundreds of people on board over the West end and the plan will be dropped. Who need terrorists when the MET are going to be playing with remote controlled planes on the Heathrow flight path.
Someone thought it sounded like a good idea and forgot that in the real world you have passenger jets, helos, GA and all the military stuff wizzing about.
All it would take is someone putting the idea into the heads of the public, that a police UAV over London could drop an A380 with hundreds of people on board over the West end and the plan will be dropped. Who need terrorists when the MET are going to be playing with remote controlled planes on the Heathrow flight path.
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