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London police using terminals to collect cellphone data Comments

UPI LONDON — London's Metropolitan Police have begun extracting cellphone data from suspects held in custody, a move critics say is a "possible breach of human rights law." The data ...

Assembly plant shooting proves turning point for regional interoperability

OakWIN consists of 47 tower sites and features high-quality, digital trunking capabilities for more than 5,000 police, fire, and EMS personnel. ...

Video: App acts as remote control for police car Video

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 ...

BlackBerrys tweaked to check for fingerprints Video

By Gary Anderson Sunday Mirror Essex, United Kingdom — Police are getting a new mobile phone gadget that reads fingerprints... so suspects can be instantly identified. The new device has already ...

TASER's new tools: Body cameras and the Cloud Video

By Quentin Hardy The International Herald Tribune SAN FRANCISCO — Sgt. Brandon Davis vividly recalled the moment before he killed Eric Wayne Berry, but it was not the way it really happened. "I ...

QR Codes: An old technology finds a new application

The QR (Quick Response) Code was originally developed in 1994 by a company owned by the Toyota Corporation to help workers track parts for vehicle manufacturing. ...

Will D-Block allocation have to wait until 2012? Expert Analysis

With just about two weeks left in the year and only a handful of days left in Congress’ scheduled session, there is now just a glimmer of hope that our early-2011 optimism on D-Block allocation was well placed. ...

Newport News (Va.) cops use mobile computing to increase situational awareness

I’m in the truly unenviable position of being on the receiving end of between 100 and 200 public relations “pitches” a month, inviting me to “get a briefing” from some “expert” ...

Video conferencing and collaboration tools for law enforcers

Using everything from sophisticated TelePresence solutions to simple online meetings, police can achieve improved effectiveness, and in all probability, increased arrest rates. ...

New smartphone app lets students instantly send video to police Video

Emergency ManagementCOLLEGE PARK, Md. - University of Maryland students, faculty and staff were given access this week to a free Android smartphone app that gives them a direct and instantaneous line of ...

SFPD launches probe over missing iPhone 5 search Comments

Four plainclothes officers assisted two Apple security officials in the search of a San Francisco man's home ...

Police help Apple search for lost iPhone 5 prototype

By PoliceOne StaffSAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Police Department is assisting Apple in locating a 'lost' iPhone prototype, a department spokesperson confirmed.In a virtually identical repeat of an ...

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 ...

The most critical key to public safety effectiveness is information

While Americans have gained a widespread appreciation for the type of devastation inflicted by terrorists since 9/11/2001, the threat of terrorism has been top of mind for public safety professionals throughout ...

Leveraging Cisco IPICS and Cisco ISSI for interoperable communications Expert Analysis

The combined solution takes radio transmissions — whether they’re digital or analog signals — from the radio tower and feeds those signals into a router that then converts the voice radio traffic into IP. ...

Security flaws found in Project 25 mobile radios Comments

Many users don’t know how to use encryption, and radios can be jammed with a child’s toy. ...

Facebook Forum: Top 10 police products Comments

You told us why you can’t – or wouldn’t want to – live without these products ...

FBI app helps ID missing kids Comments

The iPhone, iPad app makes it possible for parents to quickly email police ...

FBI launches app to help find missing children Comments

Information from the app can be emailed to authorities in an emergency ...