Police Mobile Computers News & Articles

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 ...

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. ...

A recent PoliceOne survey shows that there is a prevailing belief among police officers and agency administrators alike: deploying a mobile computing solution is a top priority. In May 2009, we asked our ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — As has been previously reported by PoliceOne, law enforcement agencies may apply for an estimated $3.8 billion to $4.1 billion in grant funding assigned to the Community Oriented Policing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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? ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...