Ethiopia experiments with 'smart' police stations that have no officers
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Computer tablet screens glow inside a row of partitioned booths at a new-style Ethiopian police station. There is no commotion. There is no front desk, no bench
Computer tablet screens glow inside a row of partitioned booths at a new-style Ethiopian police station. There is no commotion. There is no front desk, no bench of anxiously waiting civilians, no officer calling out names. It is a pilot project of what is being called a "smart" - or unmanned - police station in the Bole district of the capital, Addis Ababa, and it represents the latest chapter in Ethiopia's concerted bid to catch up with the global digital revolution. A large monitor on the wal…