Police hail 'Blackberries' switch / BBC, 28 August 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7586259.stm
"North Wales Police say the policy of issuing each officer with a hand-held computer had saved hundreds of thousands of pounds in man-hours.
Chief constable Richard Brunstrom said the Blackberries meant officers had access to the police national computer and spent less time behind desks."