GPS is a question?

Police in the UK use TETRA, an encrypted radio system.

Why does any organisation need a PR department?

To be fair, this is two staff from the PR department doing the tweeting, not front-line police officers. Given the publicity they've received in return for those two person-days of effort, it seems like pretty good value to me.

Take a look at the excellent parodies too.

Are those American ("English") gallons, or British ("Imperial") gallons? There's a 20% difference...

My highly advanced clothes-line technology comes with an implicit display of its power consumption - zero.

I think it's a bit more complicated than that - Bloodhound *is* direct competition for Eagle, but not necessarily vice-versa. So whether or not they're in the same race depends on your perspective...

Yes of course, it's the people who signed up for first-generation ID cards whom we should feel sorry for here. Poor dears.

This is the DoE - how about Mushroom Cloud computing?