It wants a piece of the small-office- and home-office-equipment business, which is expanding at a 30% annual clip, as well as the networked office segment.

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It takes that long for new workers to become productive and pay off their training, office and equipment investments.

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It is understood the Home Office has no objection in principle to the equipment being introduced to forces in England and Wales.

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He said he assumed it had become lost at a sorting office in Peterborough and had recently been discovered down the back of a piece of equipment.

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