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A little over a year ago, we reported the bold decision of the City of Los Angeles to move much of its internal communications and records structure to “the cloud,” namely, Google Apps. This ...

Tenn. sheriff's robot at home in water

A $110,794 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will allow the sheriff's department to buy a high-tech submersible. ...

Intelligence-Led Policing: The Future Is Now

Training aids for computer skills

OpenOffice does pretty much everything that the other “office” package does and is cross-compatible with files created there, but it’s completely free ...

Video: "Low-tech" video stalls search for sledgehammer suspect Video

By PoliceOne StaffMIAMI — The surveillance image of the man who beat a store clerk with a sledgehammer is too poor quality to make out his face, highlighting a wider safety problem with "low-tech" ...

'Robocop' technology lets user control surroundings Video

By PoliceOne StaffA security solution for headworn computers that is said to enhance situational awareness recently won a Golden-idea Award. Motorola Solutions held the contest to recognize innovations ...

NYC cops skim for bombs using drone submarines Comments

By PoliceOne StaffNEW YORK — The New York Police Department's Harbor Unit is relying more on unmanned submarine drones to help it skim riverbottoms and underbellies of boats for explosives and narcotics. ...

Could you really be working smarter?

In any organization that is facing increased demands with the same or reduced resources, you’re going to hear this sooner or later: “We don’t have to work harder; we have to work smarter.” ...

Chemical-detection technology helps saves lives

The Chameleon from Morphix Technologies is specifically offered for the military, first responders, and industrial workers to detect potentially-deadly gases. ...

Finding that face in the crowd Video

Even though it dates me as someone who has been around a while, the first time I can remember the “face in the crowd” phenomenon coming to notice was in the case of Arthur Bremer. Bremer was ...

How police departments can benefit from online services

Ever wonder what — or maybe more accurately, who — enables citizens in your community to access your police department’s website? Ever wonder how that Internet voodoo happens? Harry Herington ...

NC police dept sees benefits of robotics Comments

By Brian Freskos Star News OnlineWILMINGTON, N.C. — Around 1 a.m., after about five hours of tense strategizing and what-if questions, the police dispatched "Sheila," a blue robot that ...

Legal considerations in the use of digital video in criminal cases Comments

Law enforcement’s challenge with the proliferation of potential video evidence is in obtaining and preserving the images captured for future evidentiary value. ...

Would a steering-wheel touchscreen reduce driving deaths? Comments

Since line-of-duty deaths for law enforcement officers are up four percent for the year as I write this, it’s small comfort that auto-related deaths are actually down 15 percent as compared to this ...

Downsides of the cell phone

Our cell phones are such invaluable tools that we pretty much take them for granted, never really thinking about the fact that they can be traced, mapped, tapped, and subpoenaed. ...

Golden-i headworn computer Comments

Your next computer may be attached to your head ...

GPS in phone leads cops right to robber Comments

Chicago Sun-TimesEVANSTON, Ill. — Chances are, Larry "Smitty" Cox had no idea one of the cell phones he's accused of stealing from a parked car in Evanston Monday was equipped with a GPS ...

Mobile broadband enhances public safety effectiveness

Today, public safety agencies rely on what is commonly referred to as 3G (third generation) wireless technology for mobile data communications. This is primarily used for non-mission-critical applications. ...

Mobile phones are the electronic milk carton

If you want to know what’s coming down the pike in multimedia mobile phone use, you need only look to the sister cities of Seattle, Washington and Kobe, Japan. Japanese mobile phone users — ...

Resource optimization and economies of scale with 4G LTE

As public safety budgets are slashed, training programs cut back, and in some cases fire and police agencies being shut down entirely, many municipalities are approaching a breaking point. The good news ...