Panasonic's tiger-resistant laptop
By Brian Caulfield Forbes.com BURLINGAME, Calif. — Call it the James Bond of laptops. We dropped the Panasonic CF-30 "Toughbook," kicked it, stood on it and tried to back over it with a ...
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COPsync increases officer safety, adds high-tech tools to the squad car
Texas Trooper Randall Vetter was murdered by a 72-year-old who had said he’d shoot any officer who tried to write him a ticket for seatbelt violation. COPSync Chief Technology Officer Shane Rapp and his colleagues believe that if Trooper Vetter had access to that information, the incident would have ended much differently. ...
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NIJ: ARJIS PDA Mobile Project - keeping identification potential in your hands
The Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) is a complex criminal justice enterprise network of 75 local, State, and Federal member agencies in California’s San Diego and Imperial counties. ARJIS has worked closely with the Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to implement a very successful Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Mobile Project. This PDA deployment attempts to address the issues surrounding positive identification while enhancing the response to and prevention of criminal activities.
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Internet helps Mass. police connect with community
By Scott J. Croteau Telegram & GazetteWESTBORO, Mass. — Arash of car thefts hits a neighborhood. Police officers hit the pavement and walk door-to-door to notify residents and look for suspects.While ...
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Police Twittering over new Internet tool 1
By Carrie Antlfinger Associated PressVisit PoliceOne on Twitter In this April 3, 2009 photo, Milwaukee Police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz updates the department's Twitter account in Milwaukee. (AP Photo)Related ...
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Fla. officer used laptop before crash  5
From WJXT-TV Related Column: Police Driving: Safety Behind the Wheel by Capt. Travis YatesJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol investigators said a female police officer had glanced at her ...
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NZ cops use Facebook to solve crimes
By Ray Lilley Associated PressWELLINGTON, New Zealand — Police in New Zealand nabbed a man who was trying to crack a bar's safe after posting security camera footage of the act on the Internet networking ...
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Counterterrorism on the front lines 2
Immediately following the September 11th attacks in 2001, a block of instruction called "Terrorism: Battling the War in America’s Heartland" was added to the Street Survival Seminar. Why talk to a group of state and local law enforcement officers about global terrorism? Isn’t battling Terrorists a Federal responsibility? ...
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Mich. chief coordinates rural response plan
The Flint Journal CLIO, Mich. — Don't let the city's small size fool you. Clio may be only 1.2 square miles, but its police department and top cop James McLellan have big ideas about leading an effort ...
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11-hour Calif. gang standoff ends peacefully
By Louis Galvan The Fresno Bee FRESNO, Calif. — A police standoff at an east-central Fresno apartment complex ended after more than 11 hours Saturday when two robbery suspects emerged and surrendered ...
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NIJ: Call for cell phone forensics
Any technology that can be used for legitimate purposes can be used to accomplish illegal aims as well. State and local law enforcement officials responding to emergencies and criminal complaints almost inevitably discover the presence of a cell phone. These cellular phones should not be overlooked as a potential source of evidence and intelligence in any type of criminal investigation. A quick look at the headlines will reveal criminals using cellular phone technology as a network for coordinating a criminal enterprise, a means to send harassing text messages to a victim, a method of producing photographs viewed by a pedophile, or a way for international or domestic terrorists to detonate devices.
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911 operators face their own emergency in Miami
911 calls were rerouted to the Miami-Dade communications center and then relayed back to the department's mobile command center while the floor was evacuated. By DAVID SMILEY The Miami Herald MIAMI, Fla. ...
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N.M. department goes mobile in style
All-terrain mobile command center with the comforts of home By Sharna Johnson The Clovis News Journal Reprinted with permission from Freedom Newspapers of N.M. CLOVIS, N.M. — The Clovis Police Department’s ...
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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 ...
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