• Dorset Police get a 3D Scanner

  By forum_news at 13:47 on 31/12/11

  

  The Department for Transport has given police forces in the South West over £340,000 to spend on 3D laser scanners. The technology creates a 3D image of crash scenes and is used to cut the amount of time that roads are closed after an accident by allowing police to examine the scene 'virtually'. With no motorways and relatively few dual carriageways, an accident can close a major road in Dorset for many hours. Roads notorious...

• Watch out - the police will be about in Blandford tomorrow

  By alfiebass at 14:40 on 07/09/10

  

  Blandford will be the focus of a special one-day operation as part of the Dorset Road Safe partnership's 'no excuse' casualty reduction campaign tomorrow (Wednesday 8 September). 'No excuse' is a year-long partnership project aimed at reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured on Dorset's roads through a combination of extra enforcement, education and publicity. Dorchester, Bournemouth and Poole have already been the...

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