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New app provides emergency managers easy access to map-based bomb standoff distances and hazmat spill evacuation areas. ...

Video: Can 'smart gun' technology save lives? Video

By PoliceOne staff Developers are racing each other to build the next innovation in weapons: a gun that will only fire for its owner. Some prototypes require the handler to wear a ring or bracelet that ...

'Next-generation 911' gear modernizes police Video

Chris Woodyard USA TODAY RoboCop would be proud. Maybe even amazed. Like the main character of the then-futuristic 1987 movie about an all-seeing humanoid cop, patrol officers are being equipped with the ...

Interoperability Best Practices: The 4G future of public safety

By Tim Dees and Michelle Perin Technology projects in large, well-funded agencies tend to get the most attention. With 80 percent of the law enforcement agencies having 25 or fewer officers, and most fire ...

More for less: Using 4G technology to catch bad guys Comments

The latest version mobile broadband communications is called 4G, and it represents a significant increase in speed and capacity for the exchange of mobile data. Because of 4G, officers can spend more time ...

Public safety network put to the test at RNC in Tampa

William Jackson Government Computer News TAMPA, Fla. — Police in Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida, used a first-of-its-kind LTE cellular network dedicated to law enforcement as part of security ...

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 ...

Wireless providers to disable stolen phones Comments

By Eric Tucker Associated Press WASHINGTON — Major wireless service companies have agreed to disable cellphones after they are reported stolen under a strategy intended to deter the theft and resale ...

Mo. police department gets $55K grant Comments

By Lindsay Reed The Cassville-Democrat CASSVILLE, Mo. — The Cassville Police Department has received a $55,314.50 grant from the Missouri Department of Homeland Security for new radio equipment. ...

Maine police officers to receive warrants by email Comments

By Judy Harrison Bangor Daily News PORTLAND, Maine — The state court system took a step into the digital world this week when it electronically transmitted 41,000 existing arrest warrants into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Easing communication with cognitive radio

In the wake of the season’s most devastating hurricane, a major metropolitan area reaches out to nearby smaller towns for law enforcement and firefighting assistance. Communication between the city’s ...

Why digital video is better than analog

Unlike analog recordings, digital recordings usually contain information called metadata — “data about data” — that further describes the nature of the primary record. ...

NC city to build wireless network for police, fire

Officials say people surfing the web on smart phones has led to problems for police and fire departments ...

Emergency radios still not connected post-9/11

Responders found they could not communicate with each other ...

You've got NERV: Emergency interoperability on wheels Comments

The Cisco NERV uses an IP-based network foundation, and meets or exceeds the National Incident Management System (NIMS) standards for type II mobile communication centers. ...

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. ...

Motorola and General Motors strive to create the 'ultimate patrol vehicle' Comments

At APCO in Philadelphia this month, Motorola displayed a new Chevrolet Caprice PPV and a Chevrolet Tahoe PPV with a wide array of integrated Motorola devices. ...

FBI app helps ID missing kids Comments

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