The weapons, which will be converted from fully automatic to semi-automatic for safety reasons, will be assigned to sergeants and carried in the trunks of their cars.

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Kaleta was assessed a major penalty for boarding and a game misconduct, which resulted in an automatic review by the league's department of player safety.

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Many of the most radical ideas are still on paper, such as the right of automatic appeal to an ombudsman against local government rulings on health and safety.

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Howard's 20-foot boat has not only been re-fitted in order to make sailing easier, it is also equipped with essential technologies to ensure the safety of both Howard and other sailors, including an Automatic Identification System (AIS), which alerts Howard to ships within a 50-mile radius.

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But a firm of employment lawyers, Thompsons, said it did not believe Mr Prescott was going far enough, arguing that automatic jail sentences should be brought in for company executives who flout health and safety laws.

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Most new Chevrolet models offer OnStar safety, security and convenience technologies including OnStar Hands-Free Calling, Automatic Crash Response and Stolen Vehicle Slowdown.

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