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Facebook Forum: Top 20 must-have tactical gear options Comments

When we asked our Facebook fans which single piece of tactical gear they would add to their police-issued equipment, regardless of cost, we got some great responses, both serious and far-fetched, to say ...

New tech aims to solve interoperability issues

As FirstNet continues to be a futuristic idea, Covia allows public safety to have solutions today. ...

'Next-generation 911' gear modernizes police Video

Chris Woodyard USA TODAY RoboCop would be proud. Maybe even amazed. Like the main character of the then-futuristic 1987 movie about an all-seeing humanoid cop, patrol officers are being equipped with the ...

Public safety network put to the test at RNC in Tampa

William Jackson Government Computer News TAMPA, Fla. — Police in Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida, used a first-of-its-kind LTE cellular network dedicated to law enforcement as part of security ...

C4i unveils new communications capabilities for public safety

SwitchplusIP LTE Pico-Cell Cellular Interface Unit (CIU) may actually have an even higher 'cool factor' than the C-OTM unit, and that’s saying quite a lot ...

Calif. police radios fail during Obama visit Comments

Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — A major portion of Oakland's year-old police radio system failed during President Barack Obama's visit to the city this week, in one what one lieutenant ...

A précis on Narrowbanding Comments

In certain cases, the FCC’s Narrowbanding mandate will mean the purchase of new radios, which many cash-strapped agencies will struggle to fund. ...

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 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 ...