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By PoliceOne Staff Verizon announced Tuesday that it is working on a 911 texting service that will enable those who are unable to make voice calls to reach out for help during emergencies. The SMS service ...

By Eric Tucker Associated Press WASHINGTON — Major wireless service companies have agreed to disable cellphones after they are reported stolen under a strategy intended to deter the theft and resale ...

OakWIN consists of 47 tower sites and features high-quality, digital trunking capabilities for more than 5,000 police, fire, and EMS personnel. ...

Cell phones have revolutionized personal communications in many ways. Most of us can no longer imagine being out of touch with our acquaintances, and the intermittent times this happens during commutes ...

The Redwood City Police Department has added Nixle to an already robust social media communications strategy which already includes Facebook, Twitter, and CodeRED. ...

A new handheld device designed for public safety seems at first glance to be more science fiction than fact — but ‘tomorrow’ and ‘today’ are sometimes separated by the slimmest margin. ...

By Alcatel Lucent High-capacity wireless data networks bring down the cost of video surveillance and other information-gathering utilities. That doesn’t mean the cost isn’t still significant. ...

By Alcatel Lucent Public safety and security executives struggle with a never-ending calculus of watchful protection: how much is too much? When people feel threatened or otherwise unsafe, they want their ...

In the wake of the season’s most devastating hurricane, a major metropolitan area reaches out to nearby smaller towns for law enforcement and firefighting assistance. Communication between the city’s ...

Allocation of the D-Block of 700 MHz spectrum for the purposes of building a nationwide, interoperable emergency communications network is all but sealed. ...

It appears increasingly likely that the D-Block of 700 MHz spectrum will finally be allocated to public safety. In fact, rumors are now floating around the Internet that a Senate vote on the issue is imminent ...

A city councilman wants to forbid the Police Department from pulling the plug on all that electronic communication during the G-8 and NATO summits. ...

You come upon a scene at which you ascertain — in part, from the two DBs on the pavement — that some sort of crime has been committed. This conclusion is further fortified by the screaming ...

We might someday have true communications interoperability for public safety in the United States. ...

Think of the Raytheon Regional Technology Center as a technology shoot house. ...