The Police Review recently reported that officers within the Metropolitan Police will soon be tagged, so that senior officers can track their positions and their movements. The APLS (-Automated Personal Location System) will return details of where all officers are.
It may be, as claimed, to improve officer safety and also to enable nearest quick response to any incident, but many officers will probably suspect that it will be to keep tabs on them primarily.
At the very least it could reduce the need for individual judgement and initiative, "Leave that incident and proceed three streets away where...". Officers could become "pawns" moved around by a supervisor in the control room.
Presumably the tags will be removable at the end of each shift, unlike prisoner tags, which in theory are not removable. But they will be compulsory.
This may be something of a "red rag" to a police force already feeling under-appreciated and cheated in last years wage negotiations. They may need some convincing!
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