Police Thermal Imaging News & Articles

During IACP 2012 in San Diego, I stopped by the FLIR Systems booth to speak with Jim McGowan for a few moments about their latest handheld thermal imaging devices for law enforcement. Having had some experience ...

By Joan Lowy Associated Press WASHINGTON — Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Civilian cousins of the unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and ...

By PoliceOne Staff KEENE, N.H. — A police department's purchase of a specialty SWAT vehicle caused backlash from residents who claim it contributes to "militarization" of the police. ...

Associated PressHASTINGS, Mich. — Police investigating an alarm at a Michigan restaurant used a thermal imaging device to find a fleeing suspect hiding in a pile of leaves.The Grand Rapids Press ...

Dozens of local, state and federal officials had searched for Joseph Megna, 29 ...

The Thermal Ally Mk II Camera is a handheld monocular, slightly larger than a full sized pair of binoculars (7” x 2.5” x 3.75”), weighing slightly more than one pound. ...

NewsOn6.comTULSA, Oklahoma -- Infrared video from the Tulsa Police Department's helicopter of a police chase early Thursday morning shows how difficult it is to run from the chopper.The chase began when ...

Because the product focus for the month of February is in-car video, I thought I would introduce something that potentially (and significantly) augment capturing video evidence in a patrol car for an array ...

Thermal imagers detect the heat difference emitted by the object or person and the ambient temperature ...

With Rob Lowe, Special Contributor to PoliceOneAs part of our educational series on things that officers should know, I have turned to one of my expert technical advisors, Rob Lowe, sales and marketing ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorFLIR Systems, a Portland, Ore.-based company, released a series of handheld thermal imagers last year that have turned out to be a very popular product in the ...

By Scott M. Bruner PoliceOne Product EditorThe SOLTEC Corporation has entered the emergency response field with an intriguing new thermal imaging camera, the NEC Avio G120. The camera is the first thermal ...

Two companies are making headway in getting officers the clearest possible image of a suspect or area during night patrol. Both FLIR Systems and American Technologies Network Corp. (ATN) exhibited products ...

Mid-way through my attendance at the IACP session on domestic and international terrorism on Sunday morning, I received a text message from my friend and colleague Hannah Simon: “TASER has an AXON ...

You’re in the middle of a foot pursuit in the dark, running through waist-high brush when you hear that unmistakable, unique transmission on your radio that only your air support can make. “K-9, ...

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol says it will temporarily deploy a Predator B unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to patrol the border along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway, “where cigarette and drug smuggling have been a continuing problem.” While the focus of the news articles about this new deployment has been about drugs and cigarettes — and there have been some massive drug and contraband busts up in the Northern Tier in recent years — the 9/11 Commission Report was most concerned that the Canadian border could become an entry point for Jihadists and other extremists. A CPB report to Congress last year echoed that apprehension, stating that the agency had significant concern that extremists could slip across the northern border. ...

By Pamela Hess Associated PressWASHINGTON — Coming one day to a government checkpoint near you: a thermal imager that just might tip off a guard to a liar.The research arm of the Defense Intelligence ...

The Associated PressZURICH, Switzerland — Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software.Police ...