Police help find lost time capsule

The Canberra Times

The forensics team at ACT Policing used equipment usually used to locate things such as drugs, guns or even human remains to find a lost, buried time capsule at St Jude's Primary School in Holder

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00:00Forensic Search and Imagery team has been called out to St Jude's Primary School, who

00:04are celebrating their 50th anniversary.

00:06We're fortunate enough to have ACT Policing out helping us find a time capsule that was

00:10buried 25 years ago at the 25 year anniversary of the school.

00:13We tried to locate it through old photos that we had.

00:16Some of them were black and white, so that's how long ago it was.

00:20Some were colour.

00:21The front of the school has changed significantly, so it involved a lot of guesswork.

00:25The equipment they're using runs from the extremely simple to quite complex.

00:29The extremely simple being as simple as a metal probe that is driven into the ground

00:32to try and find voids.

00:34We've got a few different types of metal detectors we can run over the ground, all the way up

00:37to our subsurface anomaly detection using radar pulses.

00:41The Year 6 students were probably the catalyst behind us digging it out, so they've been

00:45out and been involved in the actual digging process.

00:49All the equipment we're using behind me is put to use in operational sense to locate illicit

00:53proceeds of crime, like guns, drugs or human remains for instance.

00:58This is actually a rare occasion where we get to put it to use to really support the community,

01:02so it's really nice to get out there and help in that way.

01:04So we're more than happy to put our team to work today and see if we can dig up these

01:07time capsules for them for such a momentous celebration.

01:102,000, eh?

01:172,000, eh?

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