Police donate electronic pads to aid cancer patients
POLICE are set to donate 50 electronic notebooks no longer required by the force to cancer charities to help them monitor chemotherapy treatment.
The electronic notebooks – or PDAs (personal data assistants) – are used by hundreds of officers to issue on-the-spot antisocial behaviour fines and record information.
But around 200 have become redundant due to software changes and are being replaced.
Fifty of the devices are now being handed over to Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Teenage Cancer Trust.
The charities, with help from The University of Stirling, have already successfully piloted the force's devices. Another 150 PDAs will be donated to charities which have not yet been selected.
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