February 2009

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Video Cameras

Gathering video evidence wirelessly

Feb. 1, 2009
The number of video cameras in police vehicles across the United States is approaching 20,000, according to a recent report by the International Association of Chiefs of Police...
Command/HQ

Safeguarding integrity

Feb. 1, 2009
In the article Safeguarding sensitive data," Law Enforcement Technology editor Tabatha Wethal references an interesting statement by Tennessee Highway Patrol Col. Mike Walker...
Recording officers' interactions with the public with mobile video isn't enough; SOPs must clarify how video is captured and stored
Vehicles & Equipment

Dash-cams keep record

Feb. 1, 2009
Dashboard cameras can give law enforcement officers a good tool for recording criminal activity, or, as one woman discovered, a look at the life she almost lost, when a Greer...
Above: McAfee offers a suite of products, including an encrypted USB stick option, to safeguard information. Below: Aladdin's eToken solutions enable users to use two-factor identification to access protected information.
Computers & Software

Safeguarding sensitive data

Feb. 1, 2009
IT administrators adopt new solutions to protect government-hosted information
Investigators catalog weapons and evidence at the Phoenix tire center.
Investigations

Border Epidemic

Feb. 1, 2009
As narco-on-narco crimes escalate, police ask: Who's next?

More content from February 2009

15 States Have Passed Arrestee DNA Legislation: Alaska, Arizona, California, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Fingerprint Identification Equipment

DNA saves

Feb. 1, 2009
More states are finding collecting DNA upon arrest saves lives, money and time
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Communications

Radio communication's bandwidth melting pot

Feb. 1, 2009
The need to provide first responders with an improved system for interoperable communications remains an urgent national priority, despite the painful lessons of 9/11 and Hurricane...
Original tower before Alcatel-Lucent began high-speed transmission project.
Communications

Getting with the Times

Feb. 1, 2009
Modernizing public safety communications
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Security & Surveillance

Police behaving predictably: The other enemy

Feb. 1, 2009
At 3 p.m. on a Saturday in June 2007, an SUV loaded with propane canisters was deliberately driven into the glass entrance doors of the main airport terminal at Scotland's Glasgow...