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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Woe betide the company which has imported, say, an old fax machine and subsequently thrown it away it risks having to pay additional penalty duties on every other piece of office equipment imported with it.

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