silicon.com - In the future, witnesses to crimes may simply be able to report wrongdoing by uploading videos taken from their mobile phones.
According to Ian Readhead, director of information for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), the technology to allow such reporting is already being looked at by the force.
"In future it is not bizarre to think that people will not just contact the police to say there is a robbery happening but will say 'Can I send you through the video?'," he said at the recent launch of the Unisys Security Index.
"It is not unreasonable to think that the service will change its capabilities to receive this sort of information from the public.
"That is the sort of tech developments that the service is looking at and considering how we would make those investments," he told silicon.com.
According to Acpo, police now routinely check YouTube to gather evidence during criminal investigations.
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