Police Technology News & Articles

The next step in reprographic technology comes in the form of a magic wand. ...

By Corona Solutions Long a favorite of shift workers, the 10-hour shift has also frequently been the subject of management complaints about the difficulty of matching on-duty staffing to workload over ...

By Corona Solutions Just as common as insufficient staffing of patrol operations is inefficient staffing. Some agencies actually do have enough officers for fighting crime, but they are allocated and scheduled ...

Everyone should work closely with the local fusion center to make sure all intelligence gets to the right people and out to the field at the speed of light ...

Computer passwords have become a way of life for most of us. We have to have them to log on to the system at work, there’s another for email and Facebook, and you probably have some more for your ...

Click2Houston.com DALLAS — Dallas police have suspended a special unit's routine review of patrol car video after some officers complained of being targeted for minor infractions. Chief David ...

Using the eight-pound unit is “similar to operating a video game.” ...

As with many other things, the biggest obstacles to having a standardized police ID are political, not financial, or technological. ...

Would you strap onto your forearm a single device — which has an array of triggers, each controlling a different kind of less lethal weapon option — allowing you to “choose from a menu less lethal options” including OC spray, beanbag-type munitions, a ‘blinding dazzler’ of directed light, and a tunable, modulated ECD? ...

The Star-Ledger NEWARK, N.J. — Nearly two years after Newark police officials said dashboard cameras were being purchased for some of the department’s 400 cruisers, the devices have finally ...

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

While technology can be a huge help to law enforcement, we must remember that the real “software” resides between our ears — the real “firmware” resides between our solar plexus and our spine. ...

As children (possibly more recently), most of us tormented a classmate or sibling by “copying” them, e.g. repeating everything they said as quickly as you could say it. It’s one of those ...

By PoliceOne Staff A new system demonstrated this week on the Microsoft campus uses a Windows 8 app to control a police cruiser's lights, sirens, rear door and other in-vehicle features. In the video ...

By PoliceOne Staff Police in Massachusetts are combatting police impersonators with new ID cards that make it easy to identify the authenticity of an officer. Previously, each department across the state ...

Constantly on the prowl for new tech that I think might make cops’ lives easier or more fun, I sometimes run across gadgets that are really clever, but there’s not enough to say about them ...

By PoliceOne Staff MONTOGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A drone crashed into a Bearcat armored SWAT vehicle during a police test flight near Houston. The Vanguard prototype drone was flying nearly 20 feet ...