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What's new in law enforcement technology: Part 1

Part 1 of a 2-part series Read part 2 I have just completed the ultimate excursion for public safety information technology (IT), and the message I received was crystal clear – technology is driving ...

Stories differ in N.C. shooting case

Plan to equip Ohio police cruisers with cameras isn't in sight

Federal funding sought for costly devices Copyright 2006 The Columbus Dispatch All Rights Reserved By JOHN FUTTY The Columbus Dispatch COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Columbus police officers fatally shot an armed ...

The age of the patrol vehicle platform

By Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, MPA The mobile office is on its way out. In the near future, the only way to describe a police vehicle will be as a platform. A platform is a combination of technologies ...

Cop Cars: From buck boards to buck rodgers

Cops are constantly adapting their equipment to the environment. Our kit bags have grown larger and larger as we collected additional equipment to deal with the job. Our departments give us the basics, and as we face new situations we think about what tools could make tasks easier. Then, we go out and get them for next time. Much of the commercially produced police equipment used today was developed "on the fly" by those who walked the beat before us. ...

Field tactics and the Panasonic Toughbook Arbitrator

Part 5 of a Special 5-Part Series presented by the Panasonic Toughbook® Arbitrator™ by PoliceOne Columnist Lt. Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.) Incorporating new technology into field tactics is a critical ...

Panasonic Toughbook^® Arbitrator™ Presents: Tips for Effective In-Car Video Use

Part 4 of a Special 5-Part Series presented by the Panasonic Toughbook® Arbitrator™ In-car video systems like Panasonic's Toughbook® Arbitrator™, have long proven to be crime-busters, but there's a caveat: ...

Panasonic Toughbook Arbitrator: Officer’s New Partner OK with Handling the Paperwork

Part 3 of a Special 5-Part Series on the Panasonic Toughbook® Arbitrator™ It’s a Saturday night and Joe Brown, a veteran cop, gets ready to roll on his graveyard shift. He prefers nights because there’s ...

Digital video recorders give more reliable, accurate footage to police

Trace Christenson The Enquirer From his desk and days later, Battle Creek Police Commander James Saylor can hear exactly what three officers were yelling at a man with a knife. The 45-year-old suspect ...

Panasonic's Toughbook Arbitrator: Mean Street Durability

Part 2 of a Special 5-Part Series on the Panasonic Toughbook® Arbitrator™ Meeting the Requirements of Law Enforcement The baseline requirements for street cops are simple yet demanding: be smart and be ...

Panasonic: Equipping Safer and More Productive Officers

Part 1 of a Special 5-Part Series on the Panasonic Toughbook® Arbitrator™ Tragic Death, Officer Safety Motivates MSHP to Invest in Technology In 1999, a Missouri State Highway Patrolman was fatally shot ...

Police cars get digital cameras; Seattle department first to use new wireless capability

By Hector Castro Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter It''s just a small camera tucked up near the rearview mirror of the Seattle police patrol car, but it signals a leap forward in technology and, some ...

The in-car camera: Value and impact Comments

By Lonnie J. Westphal, Chief (Retired) Police Chief Magazine In the late 1990s, lawsuits alleging race-based traffic stops were being filed against state police and highway patrol agencies throughout ...

More candid cameras on patrol

By Emily Block Telegraph Herald The saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" has new meaning for the Clayton County (Iowa) Sheriff's Department. In January, cameras were installed in five of the department's ...

Digital revolution spreading to police cars

By Russell Lissau, The Chicago Daily Herald It was just before 7 a.m., and Mundelein police officer Chris Callas was on patrol near the intersection of Prospect and McKinley avenues. Suddenly a woman drove ...

Police video cameras to go digital

By Scott Ray Daily Herald Staff Writer Some people pay their traffic tickets. Others try to fight them. But soon it may be more difficult for drivers ticketed in Lake in the Hills to get off the hook ...

Oakland cops may go to video; City wants cameras in squads

The San Francisco Chronicle Oakland, Calif. wants to put all its police officers — and their arrestees — on candid camera in order to avoid costly litigation and build public confidence in the overworked ...

Cameras Go on Patrol with Chattanooga Police

Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee) Some of Chattanooga''s police officers now have extra eyes and ears on their patrols, officials said Tuesday. About one in four of the Chattanooga Police Department''s ...

Macedon, NY Police Now Have Video Cameras in All Vehicles Thanks to Officer Efforts, Business Support

You have seen their work prominently displayed on a number of real action police shows, now the Macedon, NYg Police has joined the ranks of departments across the country with in-car video camera/recorders. ...

Increased clamor for cameras in cop cars

USA Today By Patrick McMahon USA TODAY INGLEWOOD, Calif. — It took only hours for a videotape showing a police officer roughing up a handcuffed teenager in Inglewood, Calif., to hit round-the-clock national ...