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- Frederik Pohl
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| Police Control-Override | ||
| A device that allows police officers to take control of an otherwise normal vehicle. |
| I nudged the car into motion, steering between the two wide-shouldered, lean-hipped trouble boys. One whipped out a three-inch black disc - a police control-override. A red light blinked on the dash; the car faltered as the external command came to brake.
I gunned it hard, felt the accelerator jam... |
| From A Plague of Demons,
by Keith Laumer. Published by Pocket Books in 1965 Additional resources -
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See also a similar idea, the cop block from Greg Bear's 2007 novel Quantico.
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