Helicopters used by the Air Support Unit of London's Metropolitan Police will be keeping a close watch on potential security threats during this summer's Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the Olympic Games.
LONDON -- Helicopter-mounted cameras capable of identifying the color of a suspect's shoelaces on the ground from almost a mile away have been unveiled as a key weapon for security officials preparing of this summer's London Olympics.
The U.K. capital's Metropolitan Police plan to use the airborne cameras to monitor large areas that would otherwise need to be secured by dozens of officers on the ground. They will also be utilized during Diamond Jubilee celebrations -- which recognize Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne.
The devices feature powerful zoom functions which can even allow officers flying in helicopters to see the color of a suspect's eyes on the ground.
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The aircraft will be used to monitor open public areas such as the River Thames, where huge crowds are expected to congregate to watch a royal flotilla as part of the Jubilee events. Images will then be fed back to police command centers on the ground.
Metropolitan Police Constable Ian Miller told NBC News: "We'll be able to deal with most threats. Primarily, it's going to be public safety -- the river itself is a hazard and there's going to be a lot of crowds.
"From a good distance, you can have good clothing description and we're talking shoelace description… we're talking a kilometer (1,094 yards) away at least."
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"We provide an aspect of the security plan that's not easily achieved on the ground so we can see rooftops, we can see inaccessible places and we can do so very, very quickly and efficiently from the helicopter," police Sergeant Richard Brandon added. "If we were to try and search all of those areas with conventional search teams, it would take weeks -- if not months -- to fully clear those sites.
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"We're looking for people on rooftops, we're looking for people who are in places they shouldn't be, perhaps."
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Give me a break! What if one of these nuts are wearing really dark shades?
The US should scrap the fascist security state along with the UK.
Things are different now than it was, IfItellU. It's better safe than sorry. Since 911, things are never the same. Gone are our peace of mind and trust towards fellowmen. And we have become a nation full of whiny and sue-happy people! How are we going to counter them? That's right, if I have to go through the scanner, x-ray or pat ons, then so be it. That way every time these so-called mass murderers and terrorists's plot to attack will be minimized.
You desire a false sense of security and will only receive tyranny. Recall, those that sacrifice liberty for safety will receive neither liberty or safety. I recommend not allowing false flag attacks to cause you to fear freedom.
The drone knows a Terrorist eye color??? Here is a hint, 99% chance it is brown! Duh! I'm red hot on this one, maybe I can be of more help. There is better than a 99% chance they are Muslim! Duh! One more tip for anyone who is confused by this... Always remember to wipe your bum after you go poop!
Yes, let's announce it to the whole world so that the terror suspect doesn't show up for fear of having his entire appearance displayed to everyone and their brother. I think when it comes to tracking down these bombing mofos, a little disgression is needed to catch them. Not that I support being spied on by the government in order to find terrorists, but these people need to go down.
The press is reporting that the Israelis are attempting to obstruct justice and destroy evidence of their war crimes, by preventing the prosecution of Israelis for their crimes, and by masking the identity of Israeli soldiers in press video and photographs in Israel. Those bodies pursuing justice for the victims of Israeli war crimes should also prosecute the guilty Israeli officials for obstructing justice and destroying evidence.
The Jewish State of Israel has no constitution, nor does it name its borders. Israel's hidden constitution is Judaism. Israel's undeclared borders range from the Nile to the Euphrates rivers. Israel's desired jurisdiction extends over the entire Earth.
It could not be more clear that the Jewish State follows a foreign policy which obeys Jewish Law as iterated in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, Maimonedes, the Cabalah, and the many commentaries and refinements of same. The Jews are genociding the native inhabitants of Palestine, just as their religion advises, and because their religion teaches them to do so. They treat non-Jews as if non-humans, just as their religion requires them to do. They make perpetual war on every nation on Earth, just as their genocidal Jewish God has instructed.
The Jews of Israel are simply being Jews. Jews are an existential threat to the human race.
Israel contains one third of the Jews of the World. It is not some aberration of the Jewish spirit, but the condensation and concentration of the perverse Jewish mentality, which malady also pervades the remaining two thirds of Jewry, who almost unanimously support the Jewish State, and who certainly do unanimously support the Jewish People and its consistent and constant crimes against the human race. Israel is Jewry and the danger of Israel is the danger of the Jewish People to all others, as the Jews have demonstrated each and every day of their existence.
The Jews, the entire Jewish People of 15 million, will not relent until they have wiped out all non-Jews in "Greater Israel". They will not stop destroying all other cultures, nations, religions, ethnicities, races, competition, etc. until they are either stopped, or succeed in their ancient quest to destroy the human race.
What Israel is doing is not some reaction to outside forces, nor was the formation of Israel a response to the Holocaust. Israel is simply following the plan laid out in the Jews' religious texts. The Jews have openly planned to take Palestine and genocide the native population of Palestine for some 2,500 years before the Holocaust. The Jews have openly complained that "anti-Semitism" is a threat that gives them the right to genocide the Palestinians, not merely since the advent of Nazism, but for some 2,500 years.
The Jewish religion is the Constitution of the Jewish State of Israel, and, to a greater or lesser extent, the constitution of the nature of every Jew alive. The borders of Israel are the range the Jew roams over the entire World. The perverse Jewish mentality is inbred by a Jew's exposure to his parents and to his community. Judaism passes in the spit and slobber of Jewish mother telling her Jewish child that he is a "Jew", as much as Judaism passes in the poison and pain of a Talmudic tractate. The secular Jews did not suddenly come to life after the Enlightenment and the Jewish Reformation a body of vampires that appeared ex nihilo, in vacuo, mostly atheistical and undetached from formally practiced Judaism. Judaism is the Jew. It is a mindset that transcends and supercedes religion. It is a belief set, a way of life, a perception of one's self and one's relation to the World that makes a Jew, a Jew, and a danger to all of humanity.
In fact, the religious shell of Judaism is like the stretched and infected skin of a lycanthropic pustule. When you lance it to cure the infection, the virus only becomes more contagious and spills directly on the non-Jew.
The secular Jew is a deliberate product of the hyper-religious Jew, a monster created out of the hewed corpses of the fanatically religious Jew, a Golem which is conjured up to enter the World of the non-Jew and poison its blood, and boil its brain with a rabid lunacy that bites and spreads, until the infected community feeds on itself and fills the fields with rotting bloating bodies, where once human beings tilled the soil and tended to their families. The religious Jew created the secular Jew as an army of Esthers who seduce with open thighs, broad smiles, and a Siren call that lures in the non-Jew to cast his skull upon the jagged rocks and color the seas with his blood, sickened and blinded by the venereal disease of Judaism in secular form.
Israel is not a secular democracy. It is a religious mockery. It is a rabid bat flying to the ends of the Earth, to end the Earth. No one will be free nor safe until the disease is quarantined and dies out.
Dr. Goebbels, I presume?
jungezkhan, i like your nickname, lol
They want us to be terrified. The biggest threat to the public is from the British government and another false flag attack. The 7/7 tube bombings were an inside job. Rik Clay died exposing their plans for another. Stay away from the Olympics. RIP Rik Clay
Soon, they will be peeking into bedrooms and living rooms.
jungezkhan
Have you lost your f--king mind ????
Why the hell would someone want to go to the UK for the Olympics, the UK is a cestpool. The only thing they want to talk about is how they are going to kill people with the new weapons the US gave them. This has to be the biggest blunder the Olympic committee has ever made in deciding where to hold the Olympics. The British are all for war as long has no brits are killed. There is a reason the God doesn't allow the sun to shine on the UK the british have done something to piss off God.
The British law enforcement might want to use this camera to look into the eyes of the Murdock family and find out which british politican are benefiting from not prosecuting them. The british might be able use these cameras to look into the republican party and find out who lied about WMD in Iraq. The british might be able to look into the eyes of Mitt Romney and tell when he is about to tell a lie, the citizens of the US don't have this magic camera, but we know when Romney opens his mouth he is lying.
Do people really still think Arab's did it?
I am a Canadian,someone who was neutral to all this,and realized very young that there is always 2 sides to a story,and before Judging or blaming... I take time to seek the truth,and then,only when i have both sides and facts,i decide which to believe.
An old saying i heard once and is so very true,
If you want something that your friend has,declare him to be an enemy and that will justify the taken!
So for those of you who don't quite understand what i mean, i will explain.
America is running out of money for a long time now,everything today is made with oil,Food,cd's,phone's,ect... i mean you need oil for everything.
Irak has Massive amount's of oil that you would need to get your country back on track,
But at the moment they are your Friends,so you can't really just take it,so!
You frame Irak,Strike your own Country,Blame your Friends (with the massive amount of OIL)... DECLARE THEM AS ENEMIES, Bomb Their Country,INVADE,Adn TAKE THE OIL !!!!!
The Internet Today is Great for Sharing Information,in Matters of minutes,us here in Canada were seeing the footage of the incident,I must admit that i was greatly shocked by what i saw,Frustrated,revolted, but after a few days went by,i remembered my 1 SIMPLE RULE, ALWAYS 2 SIDES TO A STORY.!
So i started to check up on it,and everyone knows that The NEWS NETWORKS NEVER TELLS IT AS IT IS,...
If you want the real deal,you Try and find Real people's testament"s , Videos ,and so on
But what i Found Really Shocked me, and i guess many of you seen that as well!!
The only thing i can Say after all this is " I AM REALLY PROUD TO BE CANADIAN AT THE MOMENT "
Before Blaming and judging,always try to remember that there is always 2 sides to a story.
If you look things up a bit you will find stuff that you wont even imagine...
Bombs placed in the basement of the towers,to make sure they fall all the way down whent eh planes hit them,Extreme Amount of GOLD Moved from the basement of the towers a few days before the event,i read a little earlier in this post a guy mention White Guys Standing on the roof of their Van,Staring up at the towers Before the planes hit the towers,As if they Knew what was coming,and when it did,they all clapped hands and high five'd each other,i can go on and say so much about about that event that Proves that No Foreigner was at the bottom of this,But they still went to War and made it last years,While they Sucked as Much OIL as possible.
But after all this i can say one thing,Poeple are Talking all over Wondering If the "Terrorist" will strike the Games, but i'm Wondering what will really Happen????? The 9/11 Reason to suck OIL don't work ANYMORE,so will someone try Something to "Justify The TAKEN " ???
You know i'm kind of a peace Guy. Don't really like WAR and Hunger and that kind of stuff.
I'd rally Hope people Would WAKE UP, and smell the coffee, use the Net ,,,,Read up on stuff and then Judge or Blame :-0
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.
And my Favorite, : "All that is Needed For the Triumph of EVIL, Is for Good Men TO DO NOTHING"
UNO I heard thaa they has IMPORTED/BORROWED 25% of OUR - - - TSA .... peee-ople, to shore-up their lackk of good peeeee-ople with HIGH TECH TRAINING like our TSA folkkzz.
BOYYYYYY won THEY be SPRYZZED at jus how EFFICIENT-PROFFFFICIENT, ... our TSA izz!!!!!JUS LOOK at their TRAKKK-RECORD uno.
the most overhyped boring nonsense. olympics. what a joke and not a single common man can afford a ticket! double joke
This is a precursor to martial law....