Police in Liverpool are using Bluespamming to try and find witnesses (via SMS Text News) to the August murder of an 11-year-old boy outside a pub there.
Apparently a cop car’s been fitted with a Bluetooth transmitter with a 100-meter range, and it pings other phones with a message as it drives around the area. I’m no big fan of Bluespam, but I think this is an interesting use of it. I’m skeptical that it will deliver any results (for a number of reasons), but it’s interesting to consider as a way to canvas a local area for responses. I don’t especially like the medium, but it’s a novel approach to try and find witnesses in the area.
Bluetooth: Polizei sucht Zeugen mit Bluespamming…
Früher hat die Polizei direkt von ihren Fahrzeugen aus Megaphone benutzt, heutzutage ist sie in Großbritannien auf Bluetooth umgestiegen. In Croxteth suchten Polizisten mit einem Bluetooth Sender nach Augenzeugen im Mordfall des elfjäh…
[...] Now I read that the police in the UK used bluespamming to try and track down murder witnesses. [...]