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9-1-1 Magazine New Portal for No Cost 9-1-1 Training Programs

In a time when 9-1-1 agencies are clamoring for more training with less money 9-1-1 Magazine is proud to announce that high quality 30 and 60 minute training programs produced by the Law Enforcement And Public Safety Network (LEAPS.TV) will be available without cost and without registration on the 9-1-1 Magazine video portal.

Active Shooting Response: The Call Taker's Role

In every class I teach, I drive home the point that the first person on the scene of every crime, fire and medical emergency is the initial call taker. It's no different when the call for help involves an active shooting incident. When a frightened voice on the other end of the phone is looking for help, you are right on the scene. When the phones start to light up, will you be prepared?

Advanced Wireless Video Surveillance System Help St Louis Rebuild & Reclaim its Neighborhoods

The city of St. Louis is launching a new initiative to make one of its most violent districts, the 21st Ward, a much safer place through a combination of initiatives. The goal is to bring the residents together to fight against crime and take back their neighborhoods. The city will be supporting these efforts by providing high-tech crime-fighting tools such as funding the installation of state-of-the-art surveillance cameras in key locations and working directly with the community to...

Automatically Search Audio Recordings for Key Spoken Words

The Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) initiative seeks to significantly expand the capabilities of today's emergency 9-1-1 centers in order to optimize call-taker performance and enhance the center's overall incident response and resolution efforts. Primarily focused on a center's ability to handle text, data, images and video, there is another significant component to also consider - the use of audio-based intelligence in the mission-critical emergency services environment.

Baker County Oregon Incident Dispatcher Team Assists With Arrest of Homicide Suspect

Early on in the investigation and search for the suspect the Baker County Undersheriff requested the response of the new Baker County 9-1-1 Dispatch Type II Mobile Communications Unit. It was enroute within four minutes of the request and was staffed by Chris Galiszewski our Communications Technician and Senior Incident Dispatcher Margaret Sackos.

Beverly Hills Police Department Equips Mobile Command Center with Utility's Rocket During Golden Globe Awards

THE SOCIAL NETWORK wasn't the only big winner at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards last month. As part of its security detail, the Beverly Hills Police Department was able to successfully stream surveillance video from the event back to the station and out to other officers in the field via Utility, Inc.'s mobile communications gateway, The Rocket.

Books

Breaking the Law of Unintended Consequences

...it may be high time that we in policing explore this theory with a view to enhancing our decision-making processes. Can we couple this law with our intelligence led strategies to discover if (and then how) the 75 year old theory of Theory of Unanticipated Consequences can be reconciled with Intelligence Led policing practices? In today's world of limited options and resources, we must wring out every ounce of prospective benefit from every choice we make. This might be just the right time...

Campus Police - Public Safety in a Microcosm

Public Safety response and communications on campus has as many commonalities with municipal, county, or state public safety as it has differences. In many ways, a campus is a microcosm of a city or a county, with its own facilities, departments, and services, and the role and responsibility of public safety personnel is very similar to that of a municipal agency. At the same time, the campus environment has its own unique challenges that differentiate campus police, fire, and EMS personnel...

Campus Police: Keeping School Safety a Priority When Funds Are Limited

In creating and restructuring Independent School District Police Department, leaders of the district in conjunction with local patrons and agencies, should adopt a philosophy reflective of the idea that the police department will be a partner of the school district and the community it serves (community oriented policing). Community policing is a philosophy and an organizational strategy that promotes a partnership between people and their police...

Carlson Wireless's LongHaul ST Exceeds All Expectations during Field Tests for Municipal Traffic Monitoring

Monitoring traffic cameras from a single location in a busy urban environment requires fast, robust links that don't lose bandwidth over a "daisy chain" of microwave links. LongHaul ST, the new lightning-fast Ethernet bridge from Carlson Wireless, offers this kind of performance head and shoulders above the competitors, according to an independent field test.

CODY Systems Unveils Cloud-Ready Tactical Cross-Agency Search App

CODY Systems, a nationwide leader in public-safety software, has unveiled C.tac 5, the company’s latest cloud-ready addition to its market-proven C.O.B.R.A. real-time tactical information-sharing platform. C.tac 5 is a .NET, browser-based rich client that is already arming law enforcement agents with instant mobile and in-house access to real-time RMS information (including pictures) from across jurisdictions, regardless of RMS vendor.

Command Vehicle Delivers Real-time Data for Monmouth Sheriff's Office

The Monmouth County Sheriff's Office field communications vehicle was a state-of-the-art vehicle with yesterday's technology... This setup did not allow for true networking and expandability, and thus did not allow communications staff to share resources when the communications vehicle was deployed... Monmouth County has now implemented a Cisco wireless network in its field communications vehicle with voice and data capabilities that support the Sheriff's department and local police stations...

Coordinating Communications: The Value of Plain Speech and Universal Radio Equipment in Local Operations

NIMS requires the use of plain speech during multi-agency, multi-jurisdiction and multi-discipline events, such as major disasters and exercises. It does not require plain speech as common practice within day to day departmental operations. However, the importance of plain speech as a means of creating a universal radio language in the United States goes far beyond those kind of major, multi-agency disasters.

Covia Labs Launches Communications Interoperability Software Platform for Public Safety

Covia Labs, Inc. has announced the launch of Alert & Respond, a new software platform that offers a cost-effective way for public safety to integrate consumer smartphones and commercially available devices into their operations. Alert & Respond greatly expands the command & control and situational awareness capabilities available to public safety personnel beyond what is available with voice-only communication.

Cubic to equip high-tech 'Tactical Village'

Cubic Corporation has reached an agreement to provide its advanced urban instrumentation system, including its Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES), for a regional emergency and law enforcement training facility being built in the Chicago area. The contract marks first sale of sophisticated urban instrumentation to an academy for law enforcement and first responder training

Facebook campaign warns that "One Punch Can Kill" after deadly UK assault

A new group that has been created on Facebook to raise awareness of violent assaults in England hopes to gained attention in both political and public safety circles. The group, called ONE PUNCH CAN KILL, was created by British writer John Mansell, whose son died last April due after suffering brain damage when he was severely beaten in an unprovoked assault.

Florida Highway Patrol Selects Panasonic Mobile Digital Video Solution

Four Days at Ground Zero: Volunteering at the WTC

Kevin and I had met years ago as volunteers with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. He's a crew-cut police sergeant from Malden. I'm a retired special agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Amtrak conductor, overhearing our conversation about volunteering in the search and rescue at the scene of the World Trade Center disaster, told us that he was proud of us.

From a Text Message to a Life Saved

Think you're good at giving good driving directions, specifying street names, lane ends, and landmarks like the mountains east and west of the your community? The same ease probably wouldn't apply in places around Saskatoon, Canada... Just ask Ron Boechler, the police chief for Corman Park, a Rural Municipality (RM) located around Saskatoon. He'd have been lost without the guidance of MD Ambulance Dispatcher Kim Wruck. Without their teamwork, a young woman would not likely have survived the...

GammaTech Introduces Fully Rugged Durabook R13C Convertible Computer

GammaTech Computer Corp., offers the Durabook R13C, an upgraded version of model R13S perfectly suited for a variety of applications, including law enforcement, military, homeland security, and mobile workers in any type of outdoor environment.

Highland Park Police use online portal to empower citizens and save officers time

The Highland Park (IL) Police Department is now offering residents a much more convenient and cost effective online alternative to filing a police report in person for minor offenses. Using solutions from New World Systems, the leader in public sector software, and Coplogic, Inc., the Police Department's Online Citizen Reporting System is improving the use of officer time and ensuring all stolen property is accurately reported and tracked.

Impressions of Hell: A First Hand Report from the WTC

Initially, there seemed to be a lot of disorganization for the first several days as the leadership scrambled to keep up with the volunteers who showed up and the teams that were deployed to help out. Most teams though, especially the FEMA ones, were well organized among themselves and were capable of running autonomously even if little or no input from higher up was forthcomming

Interceptor: An Affectionate Look Back at the Crown Vic

They were big. They were boxy. They drank fuel at a fantastic rate. They were cool. They were often the subject of coffee breaks and station get-togethers by police departments all over the country. If you wanted to start an instant debate among cops, begin a discussion of which police cars were faster - the Dodge, the Chevy, or the Ford Crown Victoria. Now it's time to say goodbye to the Crown Vic, the car most often associated with the words police car.

Intrado and ShotSpotter Join Forces to Provide Real Time Violent Crime Information to Public Safety

Intrado Inc. a subsidiary of West Corporation and the leading provider of 9-1-1 technology solutions, has announced that ShotSpotter Inc. and its Gunshot Location System (GLS) have been certified to join the Intrado next-generation 9-1-1 data partner program. ShotSpotter is collaborating with Intrado using its patented acoustic surveillance and analytics technologies to send timely and precise geographically specific multimedia alerts with valuable situational intelligence directly to 9-1-1...

Jackson County, MS Sheriff's Office Partners With PTS Solutions On Powerful New Information Sharing Initiative

Through an initiative led by Jackson County, MS Sheriff Mike Byrd, local law enforcement agencies using technologies provided by PTS Solutions and the Pegasus Program are being provided significant new law enforcement information sharing capabilities. This initiative provides law enforcement officers with better information to solve crimes and make communities safer.

K9's Get A Lift in Coast Guard Shipboard Training

The hoist up the WW2 Liberty Ship Jeremiah O’Brien is part of the dogs' ongoing training program designed to expose them to all of the fields they could be potentially called to serve in. They are both bomb-sniffing dogs, and typically search for explosive material on ferries and in warehouses and port facilities. Their training, however, sometimes requires them to be transported to assets that they are not naturally comfortable with, such as airplanes or moving boats.

Keep Responders Safe with Chameleon Chemical Suicide Detection Kit

Morphix Technologies, an innovator in the science of colorimetric detection devices for dangerous chemical gases, is on the forefront of preventing accidental exposure to first responders from these toxic chemicals. The Chameleon Chemical Suicide Detection Kit offers police, EMS and first responders a field-configurable, low-cost, easy-to-use, hands-free solution when encountering a chemical suicide.

LA County Sheriff Selects Panasonic Toughbook Mobile Computers For Countywide Patrol Vehicle Deployment

Panasonic Solutions Company, a provider of rugged mobile technology solutions for the Public Sector, has announced that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), the largest Sheriff's department in the United States, has selected its Toughbook 31 and Toughbook CF-19 fully-rugged mobile computers for countywide vehicle deployment, as part of the LASD Mobile Digital Computer (MDC) project

Law Enforcement Barcode Equipment & Inventory Manager Software

Law Enforcement Barcode Equipment & Inventory Manager Software. Dynamic Systems, Inc., a Redmond, Washington software developer specializing in data collection applications has announced a low cost equipment and inventory manager for law enforcement agencies based on bar code technology.

LEAPS TV offers Immigration Law Enforcement Program for PD training

Creative agencies share some alternative strategies for immigration law enforcement in this LEAPS.TV program. A no cost, 57-minute web program, Immigration Law Enforcement: Beyond 287(g) and Secure Communities is now available on LEAPS.TV.

LEAPS-TV: New Law Enforcement/SWAT Training video: Barricaded Gunman Call Out

A no cost web program features a SWAT/Quick Response Team call-out for a barricaded gunman. The program covers snipers, negotiators, command post set-up, tactical communications, mapping, and video/photography. This program will be available at no charge for the next two weeks

Motorola Solutions to Provide Atlanta PD with Integrated Surveillance System to Fight Crime

Motorola Solutions, Inc. has announced a contract to integrate the City of Atlanta's disparate public and private surveillance camera systems into one common operational environment in the Video Integration Center. Motorola's Global Services organization leads a team including ADT Commercial Security to provide a comprehensive solution for the city.

New Bedford, MA, Police Department Using ShotSpotter to Combat Illegal Gunfire

The city of New Bedford, MA, has partnered with ShotSpotter Inc., a world leader in wide-area acoustic surveillance and gunshot detection and location technology, in support of its efforts to fight gun and gang violence. The New Bedford Police Department will use the ShotSpotter Qualified Alerts Service for real-time validation of gunshot location data, enabling accurate decisions for faster emergency response, helping improve situational intelligence and elevating first responder safety.

New Mobile Application Increases Officer Safety on National Wildlife Refuges

Until recently, access to database systems has been limited to mobile data terminals in officer’s cars. But now, officers are able to access information from anywhere in the field - either on their RIM BlackBerry smartphones with PocketCop or their laptops with InterAct Mobile. This eliminates the added time of going through a dispatcher from the car radio. PocketCop on a smartphone has the added advantage of being accessible when the officer is outside of the vehicle.

New on LEAPS.TV Sheriff & Police Channel - Multijurisdictional Common Operating Picture

York County's mobile command and control system enhances situational awareness and operational efficiency while increasing officer safety. Off-the-shelf hardware, radio interoperability and GPS-enabled real time updates are only a few of the highlights. This program focuses on the operational and technical aspects of the Quick Response Team's use of advanced communications technology in their operations using a barricaded gunman scenario to demonstrate the capabilities of the system.

NextGen Microwave Wireless Connectivity

Today's traffic-monitoring project and public safety agency demands higher data throughput and lower latency - at an affordable price. The LongHaul ST series is Carlson Wireless's answer to these requirements, with both an indoor rackmount version as well as an outdoor integrated antenna.

Notification Systems and School Safety

As campuses nationwide openup their classrooms for the new school year, MIR3, Inc., an innovator of real-time Intelligent Notification and response technology, is urging school administrators to review their current campus alerting plans to keep students and staff safe and operations running smoothly in case of disaster.

NPSTC Presents Strong Case for a Single Nationwide Broadband Network for Public Safety

On March 1, 2011 the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) unanimously voted to support the concept of a single nationwide broadband network for public safety instead of the network of networks approach. At an ex parte discussion held by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for invited representatives of public safety, NPSTC made the strong case for a single flexible, reliable, and vibrant national broadband network, presenting high-level conceptual drawings to...

Operation Serenade: Simi Valley PD and President Reagan's Funeral

As a dispatcher with the Simi Valley (CA) Police Department since 1977, promoted to the position of Communications Manager in 1990, I have been involved with many citywide incidents from earthquakes, to fires, to floods, to the opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library with five living Presidents attending. But nothing has come close to being involved in managing public safety during the internment of Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States. This event was...

Organized Crime

Organized crime is defined by modern law to mean the association of people in pursuit of criminal activity. The Chief Assistant District Attorney in New York County and head of the Rackets Bureau under legendary DA Frank S. Hogan, Alfred J. Scotti, considered organized crime a purely American brand of criminal activity. Of course he was of Italian ancestry and like many Italo-Americans resented labels Washington bureaucrats put on racketeering.

Pennsylvania State Police Respond To Flight 93 Crash

When hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Somerset County on September 11, 2001 the Police Communications Officers and State Police Officers from Troop A were handling the incoming telephone calls, along with the Somerset 9-1-1 Center.

Perspective: Drugs, Violence and Enforcement

The murder of 52 women in Mexico is enough even for my hard bit experience in law enforcement to take - every dispatcher knows the tragedy of drug addicts' conduct on themselves, their families, and society... There is no way to stop opium trafficking so long as there is demand for heroin. The United States is the world’s largest consumer. Yesterday the President of Mexico, visibly upset when 52 women were burned to death by drug traffickers in a bingo parlor, suggested again that the U.S. do...

ProPhoenix is the Next Generation Public Safety Software for Vineland PD, New Jersey

The City of Vineland, New Jersey is now utilizing ProPhoenix Public Safety Software. With a population of over 60,000, this large jurisdiction needed public safety software that could help them achieve their maximum public safety potential.

Pryme Radio Unveils Latest Innovations For Public Safety

Pryme Radio Products recently unveiled its arsenal of newest technologies at the IWCE Las Vegas earlier this month. All of the innovations introduced at the show are brand new this year, including two new additions to its award winning PRYMEBLU line, a wireless PTT adapter and a number of solutions for high-noise environments.

Pryme Surveillance Equipment Features Improved Situational Awareness and Comfort

Pryme Radio, an industry leader in professional quality two-way radio accessories, is joining forces with Hearing Components to enhance the comfort and performance of its communication equipment with the addition of patented Comply Foam tips.

ReconRobotics Introduces Micro-Robot To Protect Patrol Officers

ReconRobotics, Inc., a leader in tactical micro-robot systems, has introduced the Recon Scout Throwbot LE, an affordable yet highly sophisticated micro-robot designed to help patrol officers assess potentially dangerous situations. Until now, use of robots by law enforcement has typically been restricted to tactical teams and bomb technicians, but the Throwbot LE is specifically designed to mitigate the everyday risks that patrol officers encounter during interrupted robberies

Rescuetainment: Real Life TV: Friend or Foe?

A thirteen-year old girl is swept down a flood control channel in Los Angeles as swiftwater rescuers struggle to pluck her out of the torrent. A woman and her son are in a violent automobile accident and rescuers make a heroic effort to save them. The parents of a young man receive a surprise telephone call from police officers informing them that their son may be the victim of a homicide. A well-known Hollywood actor discovers his beautiful wife lying at the bottom of their swimming pool....

Rocky Mount PD Enhances Public Safety with ShotSpotter Gunfire Alert Service

The Rocky Mount (NC) Police Department is quickly realizing key benefits in incorporating the gunfire alert and analysis technology provided by SST, Inc., with its strategic and tactical operations to combat crime in the city. In July 2011, the Rocky Mount Police Department implemented the ShotSpotter Flex solution in support of its ongoing commitment to rid the city of gun crime and gun violence and improve the quality of life for its residents.

Sacramento Police Cycling Team To Honor Fallen Officers

On June 18, 2011, the Sacramento Police Department Cycling Team was the first all law enforcement team to compete in the Race Across America. The race is an epic 3,000-mile bicycle race from California to Maryland. In June of 2012 Team Sac PD plans to take on that challenge again.

Scotts Valley Police Department Becomes The First Law Enforcement Agency In California To Acquire A Zero Electric Motorcycle

The Scotts Valley Police Department became the first law enforcement agency in California to accept delivery of a Zero DS electric motorcycle to assist in local patrols and traffic enforcement. The acquisition serves as a benchmark for evaluating the performance capabilities of the Zero DS in law enforcement situations, such as responding through traffic and on local bike trails. Due to its remarkably quiet all-electric drivetrain, the Zero DS is the perfect motorcycle for patrolling in urban...

Sensear Headsets Keep San Diego Cops Hearing-Protected

Sensear SM1x Ear Muff devices were used at the San Diego Chargers game to deliver a total communication solution for the senior police officers in charge. The devices were connected to their Motorola two way radios and synced to their Bluetooth cell phones and were worn throughout the game as an integral component of the police officers communication equipment.

Sterling Heights (MI) PD puts new software to good use solving crime

New software and technology from New World Systems is providing the Sterling Heights, Mich. Police Department with easy access to critical information that is enhancing investigations. On January 18, 2012, a masked man entered a Sterling Heights pharmacy attempting to get narcotics. After a brief struggle with the pharmacist the man fled, leaving behind a prescription bottle with a partial name, and a witness able to provide a vehicle description...

Tactical Response Vehicles from Oshkosh

Known its full line of fire apparatus, mobile medical, broadcast communications, recovery, law enforcement and homeland security vehicles, the Oshkosh Corporation Fire & Emergency segment has designed a line of tactical response vehicles for law enforcement which provide self-contained operational, command, and communications systems. Both of these vehicles will be on display at the IACP Conference in Orlando Florida this coming week.

Team Robot: Researchers Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicles With Advanced Collaborative Exploration and Mapping Capabilities

The ability to map and explore simultaneously represents a milestone in the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance Program, a major research initiative sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The five-year program is led by BAE Systems and includes numerous principal and general members comprised largely of universities...

Terror, Tragedy And Turmoil: Reflections on Terrorism

From the terrorist standpoint, attacks on civilian targets like the World Trade Center are political acts. Perpetrators are heroes, martyrs in their own society, perhaps even heroes among elements of American society. In their twisted reckoning, they are paid lobbyists. While their stated enemy counterparts lobby US politicians with cash and favors, the terrorist is paid with salvation. Hate is wrong in any society. Religious fervor is evil when manipulated by ungodly men.

The Blue Wall: Corruption Charges in NYC

They are sworn to uphold the law. When they go wrong there is nobody to stop them. That there are corrupt cops is not surprising. That their criminal conduct is condoned, even applauded, by other police officers is appalling. A continuing scandal in the New York Police Department under Commissioner Ray Kelly has sparked protests by tough looking cops rallying around the courthouse to support Officer Joe Ramos, a 17-year veteran of the NYPD. Ramos was indicted for making a heroin buy and...

The Rise of Cybercrime and What Law Enforcement Needs to Know About Protecting Sensitive Data

Public safety professionals continue to adopt new technologies that allow them to monitor potentially dangerous or illegal activities and gain access to information that improves their ability to do their job, and the quality of the services being provided. However, municipalities that purchase and implement these technologies are often at risk themselves from hidden vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cyber criminals. Thus, sensitive data that is necessary for reporting crime and...

Travis County to Provide Locator Bracelets for Alzheimer's Patients

The Travis County Sheriff's Office has adopted the EmFinder's EmSeeQ wearable locator system that uses cellular technology to quickly locate individuals who are prone to wandering due to cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease or dementia. Travis County is the first Texas agency to adopt the EmSeeQ system to upgrade its search and rescue technology for locating wandering and lost persons

TV Crime Dramas versus Reality

In the years following 9/11, several TV dramas have popularized the notion that there are a lot of high-tech developments, not to mention relaxation of due process, prevalent today in the pursuit of criminal suspects. It's hard to watch all these shows portraying modern law enforcement techniques and separate fantasy from fact.

United Flight 93 Revisited: Command and Control in Shanksville

Since Shanksville is located in a very rural area, the Pennsylvania State Police were in charge of the crash scene, although numerous other agencies would follow to conduct the investigation and necessary follow-up tasks.

Videos

Visiting the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial for the First Time - Video Link

On May 23, 1973, Oakland Police Officer Robert Blan was shot and killed during a traffic stop. He was 24 years old and left behind a wife and two young children. His daughter, Michelle, visited the Memorial for the first time in 2010 and had a life changing experience. She made it her goal to bring her mother with her to the Memorial in 2011 - and both graciously decided to share their inspiring experience with others...