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It is said to be one of the few old Cornish inns not to have been used by smugglers; it is about as far from the sea as it is possible to be in Cornwall, and its exposed position on open moorland by a main road would have made it easy to detect any suspicious movements of goods.

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These LED's are wired to sensors that detect the presence of odorous molecules in the air.

Here is a first prototype of our camera rat, which is a rat with a rat backpack with a camera that can go under rubble to detect for victims after earthquake and so on.

For me the policing stood for power to correct, power to prevent and power to detect.

Because normally it was always said, power to detect, and that's it, or power to punish.

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