How come the Police don't use hands-free kits?

[ciphergoth]

Why does the policeman currently blocking the way to Charlotte Road still have to hold his radio to his ear?

Comments

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

1.) They don't want to get caught up in the wires when they're trying to arrest people
2.) It wouldn't really fit the Met police image if their bobbies all looked like they were talking to themselves half the time ;-)

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

2.) It wouldn't really fit the Met police image if their bobbies all looked like they were talking to themselves half the time ;-)

Would this be their intended image or their actual image? ;-)

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

1.) They don't want to get caught up in the wires when they're trying to arrest people

This is exactly the problem that Bluetooth solves well. Cf, Sony-Ericsson phones.

I'd guess the Bobbies don't have them because your kooky, crazy, Socialist government is cheap!

Cops get all the toys here in the US! I mean, we're a police state, after all...