Police Auto-Navigation
Mark L. Ferrey · 2012
It is hard to believe that in 2012 standard police response officers in the Reading area must rely on road maps and 2 way radios to find 999 callers. This was noticed by the author of this report after attesting as a volunteer police officer (Special Constable) alongside studying for an undergraduate degree at university. Trying to find the location of 999 callers in need of assistance by looking through a road map book and deciphering radio communication static, seemed to be an immensely unnecessary waste of precious response time. This motivated the creation of ‘Police auto-navigation’, a computerised navigation aid that provides the details of an incident accurately and rapidly to officers in the field along with a virtual map, thus improving police response times with all the associated benefits.