The One Resource for Police and Law Enforcement

Products

Police Radios News & Articles

Radio system would prevent media meddling Comments

By Aly Van Dyke The Topeka Capital-Journal TOPEKA, Kan. — Shawnee County could get a new 911 emergency radio system that allows responders to switch between encrypted and public traffic. But the ...

Motorola donating extra radios to Chicago police Comments

By Sandra Guy Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO — Motorola Solutions — the walkie-talkie and bar-code-scanning portion of the old Motorola Inc. — will supply extra police radios, walkie-talkies ...

Assembly plant shooting proves turning point for regional interoperability

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

Ohio police transition to smaller cruisers

By Marc Katz Dayton Daily News HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio — As local police departments transition from traditional Crown Victoria cruisers to new Ford Interceptors, officers will need to adapt to storing ...

Mo. police department gets $55K grant Comments

By Lindsay Reed The Cassville-Democrat CASSVILLE, Mo. — The Cassville Police Department has received a $55,314.50 grant from the Missouri Department of Homeland Security for new radio equipment. ...

Bystander helps Texas cop take down suspect Comments

By Karen Hastings The Houston Chronicle When Katy resident Talal Choukair came upon a policeman wrestling with a suspect in the middle of Clay Road on Feb. 19 — and then watched the car ahead pull ...

Easing communication with cognitive radio

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 ...

10 years after 9/11: When will D-Block be done? Video

At 0700 hours today, I was 48 floors above Ground Zero, peering down into the construction site and 9/11 Memorial and saying a silent prayer for the heroes we lost that dreadful day in September. I had ...

Calif. Bay Area responders still not on same radio frequency

Progress has been hampered by high costs, intergovernmental wrangling, multilayered bureaucracy and technology that's still evolving ...

Emergency radios still not connected post-9/11

Responders found they could not communicate with each other ...

Security flaws found in Project 25 mobile radios Comments

Many users don’t know how to use encryption, and radios can be jammed with a child’s toy. ...

Motorola and General Motors strive to create the 'ultimate patrol vehicle' Comments

At APCO 2011 in Philadelphia this month, Motorola displayed a new Chevrolet Caprice PPV and a Chevrolet Tahoe PPV with a wide array of integrated Motorola devices. ...

10 years later, NY responders communicate better Comments

Sept. 11 was a convergence of the worst possible problems in communication technology ...

Slain trooper's father wants registered murderer list Comments

Bill Kugelman wants bill requiring first-degree murderers to register whereabouts with police for 10 years after release ...

New wireless network may compromise squad-car GPS Comments

Manufacturers of GPS equipment warn that strong signals from the network could jam existing navigation systems ...

New JFK terminal is police comms dead zone Comments

The new $743 million JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport has already led to a slew of police injuries ...

Post-9/11 radio system faces budget chopping block

The House and the Senate spending plans would slash up to $100 million for the Justice Department's Integrated Network ...

9/11 communications failures unfixed in NY Comments

Millions have been spent on new radio systems, but the Port Authority fears needless deaths of LEOs if an attack happens ...

Are custom earpieces worth the money? Comments

There are many advantages to using an earpiece for your radio as opposed to having the audio broadcast through a speaker everyone around you can hear. ...

A powerful weapon for police in the post-9/11 world Comments

Prior to the creation of the TSDB, information about known or suspected terrorists was dispersed throughout the U.S. Government and no one agency was charged with consolidating it and making it available for use in terrorist screening. In fact, three of the 9/11 hijackers — Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, and Hani Hanjour — were stopped by state or local law enforcement for traffic violations in the days leading up to the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. ...