As the Guardian newspaper
writes , an interesting idea was born within the walls of the German law enforcement agencies. Already, they are seriously working to ensure the safety of important government officials from the G8 countries who will attend the G8 summit in Hamburg and Berlin next month. Threats from anonymous terrorists who promised to carry out a dozen arsons and explosions forced the police to shake off the dust from a very effective method of searching for suspicious persons, which was still used by the East German analogue of the Stasi KGB. Its essence lies in collecting a bank of the smells of the suspects, which then creates a collective portrait of a person, from whom you can most likely wait for trouble.
Local activists of various protest groups were greatly surprised by the unusual raids that swept the past few weeks through the streets of German cities. Early in the morning, the police barely managed to get out of bed allowed the police to hold metal sticks in their hands, which were immediately sealed in an airtight package, signed with the name of the "test subject". This was done because the palms have a unique and quite pungent smell, which makes it almost unmistakable to identify a person.
So far, the police are planning to use dogs to identify potential intruders in crowded places and on the way to the places where public officials meet. But in the future, and scientists are already working on this now, it will be possible to create automatic electronic devices that will help to catch people in search at train stations, stadiums and other places where their detection is problematic today. In addition, the device will help identify suspicious subjects, which would be nice to check just in case.
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The police are hoping for the success of this method and do not doubt its legitimacy. But here they are at odds with human rights defenders, who believe that they will have to pay too high a price for preserving peace in such ways, sacrificing civil liberty.