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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 ...

White Paper: Field Based Reporting (FBR) A Modular Approach to Records Management

By PreSynct Technologies, Inc. A paperless incident report business process has both tangible and intangible benefits. Ongoing direct cost savings are achieved in office supplies, postage, printers and ...

White Paper: 10-Hour Shifts: Expensive Luxury, or Effective Deployment?

By Corona Solutions Long a favorite of shift workers, the 10-hour shift has also frequently been the subject of management complaints about the difficulty of matching on-duty staffing to workload over ...

White Paper: You Can’t Fight Crime If You Don’t Have The Time

By Corona Solutions Just as common as insufficient staffing of patrol operations is inefficient staffing. Some agencies actually do have enough officers for fighting crime, but they are allocated and scheduled ...

Chicago case shows how to use iPhone app to find a thief Comments

Using the Find My iPhone application to catch a crook is becoming an increasingly popular law enforcement technique. ...

Ill. police to go high-tech for ticketing Comments

By Matt Buedel The Peoria Journal Star PEORIA, Ill. — A long-anticipated transition to a more automated system of computer-generated traffic tickets is under way at the Peoria Police Department. ...

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 ...

FBI seeks to mine Facebook, Twitter to predict future Comments

By Marcus Wohlsen Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according ...

Overwatch awards Excellence in Policing grants to 16 LE agencies

Satellite SpotlightOverwatch, a strategic business of Textron Systems Advanced Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that 16 law enforcement ...

Small Wash. town to track gunshots to nail gangs Comments

By Shannon Dininny Associated PressQUINCY, Wash. — Dozens of people had gathered for a family reunion at a modest home in this small farm town last September, when a gang member walked down the sidewalk ...

Voice recognition software: Report-writing without the writing Video

Two voice-to-text tools can transcribe as fast as you can talk ...

'Robocop' technology lets user control surroundings Video

By PoliceOne StaffA security solution for headworn computers that is said to enhance situational awareness recently won a Golden-idea Award. Motorola Solutions held the contest to recognize innovations ...

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” ...

Firms scramble to cash in on police demand for data-sifting programs

By Jennifer Valentino-Devries Wall Street Journal Law-enforcement and intelligence agencies are increasingly relying on information from the Web and electronic records to help solve crimes and evaluate ...

Finding that face in the crowd Video

Even though it dates me as someone who has been around a while, the first time I can remember the “face in the crowd” phenomenon coming to notice was in the case of Arthur Bremer. Bremer was ...

Police simulator could help save lives

A $50k training system is being put to use for Rockford Police ...

Cops could be next to use virtual combat training for troops Comments

SWAT could use Quantum3D to practice for dangerous confrontations ...

Police in NC merge data on criminals with new system Video

Law enforcement agencies are using a computer system to access the criminal record of any offender in the state ...

Ariz. establishes statewide information sharing for cops

By Lt. David Azuelo, Commander, City of Tucson Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security AZlink, which employs CopLink interoperability software, was established to manage information sharing ...

Case Study: Tooele County CAD Integration

By HipLink Software One could easily mistake Tooele County, Utah, home of the Great Salt Lake, barren Great Lake Desert, and the Bonneville Salt Flats for leading a quiet and sleepy existence. In reality, ...