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  MEPO 2/9953, Daily Sketch article (2nd December 1963). Radios were used by police from 1910, but the miniaturisation of two-way radios made a huge difference to the isolation of the police constable on the street, as this newspaper article from 1963 shows.
 
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  These sources are all quite easy to understand. As you look at them, think about: which aspect of police work will be changed? Is this technology an entirely new approach, or a new way of doing an old job? There is some evidence, too, of the attitudes of: the police (Source 2), criminals (Source 3) and the public (Source 4) to these changes.
 
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  Put some of the evidence you have found in these Sources into your Gallery Worksheet.
 
  MEPO 2/9953 Daily Sketch article (1963)