Shine a light

We are putting together a piece for tomorrow about police trials of a hand-held electronic fingerprint reader.
The pilot has begun in Bedfordshire but North Wales will take part in the trial at a later date.
The hope is that this nifty device will save massive amounts of police time and money by allowing officers to identify suspects on the roadside without having to take them to the station.
It's one of the those "usual suspects" stories with various civil liberties bodies having their say and lots of tired old cliches about Big Brother.
I have read 1984 at least half a dozen times and I don't recall any of the Thought Police asking Winston Smith to place his hand in the scanner, they were too busy smashing his teeth in with truncheons.
Anyway, no one's getting too hot and bothered about a voluntary scheme which is just a pilot - legislation would be required to make people to have their hands scanned on the hard shoulder.
But two things really caught my eye about this tale. One is the Home Office claim (which I have no reason to doubt) that six out of ten people stopped by the police tell fibs. Amazing, we are a nation of storytellers!
The second is the name of the scheme - Operation Lantern. What a strangely olde worlde name for such a hi-tech project. Couldn't they think of something a bit sassy? How about Operation Fingered or Operation Dial-a-Dab?
Is the Home Office caught in the grip of Victoriana? Can we look forward to a crackdown on people who fail to use their rear view mirrors - Operation Looking Glass? Will people who plug their Christmas lights into next door's outdoor supply be snared in Operation Candelabra?
I think we should be told.