According to Sankei newspaper on the 9th of November, P-phone, which is developed for police officers, flourished in 8th of this month in order to arrest a swindler. http://news24.jp/articles/2011/11/09/07194117.html
This swindler tried to earn money by deceiving old lady. He approached her by pretend his son. And then he told her that he was being suspected of tax evasion and he needed money to clear the doubt. The next day he also said her “I cannot go to receive money because I’m busy now, so my friend will go to receive it instead of me.” When she tried to give this swindler money, her husband doubted him and took a photo of him. Soon after her husband took the photo, the swindler ran away without receiving money. This couple called the police and gave this photo to them. The police officer sent the other policemen by P-phone and finally the swindler was arrested.
This is the summary of that article. According to this article, P-phone is good at sending mails and images quickly and together and GPS function tells where the police officer. In the big earthquake in the last march, P-phone was useful in order to rescue people under the debris by sending images.
In my opinion, this P-phone maybe useful in the disaster like this March, because in that time we could not use cellular-phone due to the huge access simultaneously. But about the case of this article, is it really needed? I think normal mobile phone is enough to solve this swindler’s case. It seems that P-phone is spread in the local area. But I doubt how much it is and how much it costs to develop. In my view, the Japanese officers waste money to buy such products. Anyway I’m glad about not cheating money from a old couple!
Motoki Ono
I don't quite understand how the P-phone was used to catch the swindler. Was GPS used to track the location of the guy who ran away?
ReplyDeleteHow was the phone used to rescue people after the earthquake?
Why don't you contact the police headquarters and ask them how much they paid for these phones? You have a right to know as it is your tax money that was used to buy them.
Ms. MacGregor
P-Phones were used to contact between police in order to share the information like pictures of the swindler. So I think normal phones are enough to use such a way except emergency like earthquake.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to ask police about it. That is too embarrassed.
Motoki
First of all, sorry my comment is very late :(
ReplyDeleteWell, I think p-phones are really useful when police serches for the suspect and a disaster happened.
But we have to think of some negative points as you did. First, the cost. If it costs too much to make one, they can`t have enough for all policemen. And the other point is that some policemen may use p-phone in their private way.
P-phones are really nice idea but they surely have some negative points.
Asami
iPhone can do a better job then all the new features of P-phone which mention above. so why do we need a P-phone?
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