Police Mobile Data News & Articles

By Hannah Simon In the past several years, many public safety agencies have redoubled their efforts to fix the various communications interoperability problems that plague them. These problems range from ...

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. ...

Associated Press SALEM, N.J. — A man who allegedly wanted to buy some marijuana was arrested after he mistakenly sent a text message to a southern New Jersey police officer. Salem Police Cpl. Christopher ...

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 PoliceOne MHz Update provides a quick look into what’s current in mobile communications and computing for law enforcement. Today we look at a new mobile deployment in New York City, a Mesh WAN ...

Associated PressMADISON, Wis. — Investigators were tipped that habitual criminal Bernardo Garcia was back to making and dealing methamphetamine in 2005 but they needed more evidence to nail him.So ...

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.

It’s hard to believe it has almost been two years since I last contributed an article to PoliceOne. In June 2007, our agency made a huge leap to a new style of policing, which we called Strategic ...

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 ...

By Joseph HeapsDuring Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, winds and floods knocked out virtually every form of communication: landline service, cellular phone service, the Internet, and radio transmission. ...

The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration, working in partnership with the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA) and with funding support from the Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice, recently produced a report that provides technical guidance and training programs in traffic incident management for emergency service providers. ...

The PoliceOne MHz Update provides a quick look into what’s current in mobile communications and computing for LE.The technology that supports critical public safety communications—everything ...