Rotterdam police are developing a mobile scanner that will enable them to see through people's clothing and look for concealed weapons, a Dutch daily reported Saturday.
The force has been given a 500,000-euro government grant to develop the mobile weapons detector, the NRC said.
The aim is to develop a prototype ready for production within three years.
The mobile detector would enable the search to be carried out more quickly and would only be used on people suspected of carrying concealed weapons, police spokesman Paul De Kruijf told the paper.
Giampiero Gerini, a professor at Eindhoven University of Technology told the paper the technology to develop such scans is now mature.
"The biggest challenge is making it portable and ensuring it can carry out a scan in seconds," the NRC quoted him as saying.
ROTTERDAM, January 9 (RIA Novosti)
