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| Written by Rene Millman | |
| Saturday, 02 June 2007 | |
 People have been urged to help the police with fighting crime by recording incidients with their camera phones and sending them to a police database.
A new application will be available to the public that will allow them
to record video footage of crime and then send them onto to the law.
Called MMS-witness and developed by wireless software company Waleli,
the software allows the police to easily accept pictures and movies
taken by members
of the public using mobile phones to increase the chances of a
successful arrest.When the average person on the street witnesses a crime on the street, say someone is being robbed of a cameraphone by some Asbo youth glue sniffer, that person can video the crime and text the file to a central, secured police database using a country-wide telephone number. The image is reviewed, stored on the database and, if required, sent to the mobile phones / PDAs of police officers on the street to help increase the chances of a successful arrest. “In Europe alone, more than half the population carry a camera phone in their pocket. The use of camera phones to take photographs in a social setting is an everyday occurrence,” said Lawrence Masle, Head of International Business Development at Waleli. He said the leap in quality of camera phones has helped fuel the growth of citizen journalism. "News programmes now actively encourage members of the public to send in photographs or footage of significant news events that they have captured on their mobile phones," he said. "The tremendous growth in citizen journalism demonstrates that members of the public want to get involved with situations in their neighbourhood." "the number of people getting involved in MMS-witness will increase dramatically as they realise that they can help the police increase their chances of making an arrest," said Masle. Of course our troublesome youth have been filming crime for some time, of course they don't text stuff to the police, they just upload it to the internet and call it "happy slapping"! |
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