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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/gunshot-sensors-installed-in-city.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sensors that can detect gunshots have been installed in Birmingham" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-gunshot-sensors-installed-in-city.jpg" alt="Sensors that can detect gunshots have been installed in Birmingham"/></a></p>
<p>Sensors that can detect gunshots have been installed in one of Britain&#8217;s biggest cities in a bid to drive down gun crime.</p>
<p>The Shotspotter Gunshot Location System &#8211; which can pick up blasts within a 25m (82ft) radius &#8211; is being used in parts of Birmingham.</p>
<p>Police hope it will drive down the number of firearm incidents in the city, which have run into the hundreds in recent years.</p>
<p>The sensors, which record an audio clip and give police a GPS location, have been placed on buildings in areas of north-west Birmingham.</p>
<p>Trained officers listen in to the clips and can then decide whether to deploy other officers.</p>
<p>Chief Supt Chris McKeogh said the Shotspotter &#8211; used in 50 American cities &#8211; had an 85% accuracy rate.</p>
<p>He told the BBC: &#8220;The sound waves a bullet produces has a particular signature, if you like, and that should be recognisable to our force control room officers that have been trained up to listen.</p>
<p>&#8220;Shots, or a shot, being fired outside have the best chance (of being detected). Inside or with a silencer, the ability is not so good.&#8221;</p>
<p>Birmingham has seen 295 firearm incidents, 59 involving discharge, so far this year. Last year, there were a total of 440, with 60 involving shots.</p>
<p>West Midlands Police said the rates of gun crime justified the use of the Shotspotter system.</p>
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