Police Mobile Data News & Articles

The newly-revised FCC plan includes a proposal to spend as much as $16 billion in the next decade to build and operate a nationwide public safety wireless broadband network through which police officers and other emergency responders would share information during routine patrols and in incidents requiring multi-agency response. ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorAlthough the title of the IWCE 2010 Thursday symposium was ‘Will Broadband Voice Replace Traditional Land Mobile Radio,’ most of the symposium’s ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorAs law enforcement moves further into the technology age, the number of software applications to meet police needs continues to grow. In January, E•SPONDER, ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorPanasonic's Toughbook series have been among the leaders in providing ruggedized mobile platforms. In the past few weeks, the company has launched a pair of new ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product Editor With reporting by Travis ParrishLexisNexis, which offers one of the largest searchable news and document databases in the world, is about to expand their Accurint ...

I tested VisionTEK’s FrontLine Handheld Mobile Reporting Software, a mobile public safety software suite. It is unique in the public safety industry because the end-user can actually design applications ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Products EditorThe number of products promising to delivering true communications interoperability are quickly expanding as departments rush to find hard and software solutions ...

New police technology is usually met with excitement, but is sometimes met with worry. Officers and departments are frequently concerned about how they will pay for new computers or an updated license ...

By Jeanette KozlowskiWhile buzz surrounding its name has died down, discussions of the iPad's application capabilities certainly hasn't. According to Apple, the iPad will run almost all 140,000 apps created ...

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Article originally appeared on ConnectedCOPS.netI’ve done a few interviews recently on my favorite topic of social media use by law enforcement. In each interview I’ve been asked what affect ...

The most well known variant of the fusion center in the United States is the JTTF — the Joint Terrorism Task Force. There were 35 JTTFs in operation on 9/11 — today there are more than 100. But there are many other multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional information-sharing organizations in place to prevent and respond to every sort of criminal activity and they’re springing up all over the country. ...

There’s an alphabet soup of options on the market for wireless connectivity. Many agencies use a cellular wireless provider’s “3G” network — so named because it is the third generation of mobile data technology. Another wireless connectivity option for police agencies is Wi-Fi. ...

By Tim DeesWhere vehicle interiors are concerned, "police package" cars are pretty much the same as the consumer models. Finding spots for two-way radios, siren and emergency light controls, ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product Editor When Columbus, Ohio, dispatchers watched in horror as their computer aided dispatch system (CAD) went down on New Year's Day 2010, because their system couldn't ...