Mobile x-ray scanner at Waterloo Station

Police using a novel mobile baggage scanner for spot checks at Waterloo station. Video show how it can be moved to a location, set up and used to x-ray bags. A high resolution portable x-ray system is used in the unit to produce the images. If a suspicious bag or package is found the portable system can be taken out and used to x-ray the suspect item in situ. This unique dual purpose system allows police and security personnel to carry out x-ray scanning in situations unsuitable for conventional baggage scanning equipemnt .

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mobile
• baggage
• scanning
• x-ray

[scratcheryzf]

8,437: Civilians killed by US/UK attacks in Iraq in 2003.

3,800: Civilians killed by US/UK attacks in Afghanistan by 2002.

135,000: Deaths from cancer in UK alone EVERY YEAR

3 MILLION: Killed by HIV/AIDS in 2003.

780,000,000: People starving to death RIGHT NOW.

1.2 BILLION: People "living" on less than $1 a day.

513,000,000: Number of people without access to safe drinking water.

u do the math muppet!

[scratcheryzf]

@boonkoh lol u brain washed muppet, 0: People killed in the USA by terrorism/WMD in 2006.

(Thousands killed by the US and its allies in foreign countries.)

0: People killed in the UK by terrorism/WMD in 2006.

0: People killed in the USA by terrorism/WMD in 2005.

52: killed in the UK by terrorism/WMD in 2005 (all on "7/7").

0: People in the UK killed by terrorism/WMD in 2004.

0: People in the UK killed by terrorism/WMD in 2003.

0: People in the UK killed by terrorism/WMD in 2002.

[SCOREFIVE]

yep that will really stop terrorists :D:D:D

they are running around everywhare so be terrified :D

[Tzimnewman3]

Waste of money

[boonkoh]

What's wrong with mobile x-ray scanners? I for one think that it is a good - if only as a deterrant. Currently, terrorists know that unless they pass through a checkpoint at a train station or an airport, there's not going to be many random bag searches.

With this gadget, all the police have to do is to start introducing random checks - even one out of every 500 people - will be sufficient to put a spanner in a terrorist's plan.

[69salford69]

who sells these and how much are they making?

[000zircon]

What a complete waste of money, this is cringeworthy even down to the H&S putting the little barriers out so no one can catch their foot under the lowering platform. and then to put a bag inside a container changing the film for every bag checked.

this beggars belief it really does

[thula20]

@findnpost well my good man, there's are three part answer to me not being chief:

1- They don't want a coloured person in charge of the met

2- I am not a mason

3- i think for myself

[thula20]

@findnpost how many so called "terrorists" do you expect to catch with this? Lets just say the owner of the company who makes this is a very rich man indeed, thats what you get for being a brown nose mason

[thula20]

what a useless waste of money