BIG SISTER IS WATCHING:To cut down on shoplifting in stores, police in Derbyshire, England, have been providing shops with life-sized cardboard cutouts of one of their active-duty constables, Anna Gaskell, age 25. She recently picked up 10 more cutouts of herself. “They’re very realistic and looking at 10 of me was surreal,” she said. The program has been a success, with dramatic reductions in shoplifting in stores where the cutouts are set up, conspicuously watching over shoppers. However, there was one notable failure in one shop. In the town of Belper, a shop had its cardboard cutout of PC Gaskell stolen. (Manchester Evening News) … A cardboard cutout of a police dog is hot on the suspect’s trail.www.thisistrue.com
