A development for stopping vehicles was presented by the police at a conference of the Center for Security Science and Technology at the Technion
An innovative development by the police to stop fleeing vehicles was presented yesterday at a conference of the Center for Security Science and Technology at the Technion. Captain Oded Shamla, head of the police's technological means development department, said that "the Israel Police today is at the forefront of technology and scientific progress. If we are not at the forefront of technology, we will be left behind. The network was developed by the police and is designed to stop fleeing vehicles. Today, the police use a barbed wire barrier to stop vehicles. The barrier hits the wheels of the fleeing vehicle and causes the driver to lose control of the vehicle, which also endangers other drivers in his vicinity. The newly developed network takes over the vehicle's brakes and not the steering wheels and brings the fleeing vehicle to a stop on the spot, without endangering its surroundings. The police registered a patent for the development, which is currently in the final experimental stages."
Dan Meridor, the former Minister of Intelligence Services, Maj. Gen. (retd.) Ami Ayalon and professors at the Technion also participated in the conference that has been held at the Technion for the past decade by the Defense Science and Technology Center headed by Professor Avi Marmor.
Meridor spoke in his lecture at the conference about the strength and speed of the technological changes in the last two decades and their effect on the structure of the economy and security in the world and the stability of the regimes. "In such an era of changes, one must think differently," he said, "people tend to rely on their experience, but the war of the future will be very different from the wars of the past." Today, the modern war is projected on the screen in real time, and this affects the decision makers and the way the decisions are made."
Ami Ayalon referred in his lecture to the changes in the Middle East and the recent events in Egypt. "Egypt is no longer a regional player in the Middle East," he said, "it is drawing itself in." In the following years she will be busy with internal struggles. Turkey and Iran will become the main players in the region and Israel has a great interest in it being Turkey and not Iran."
