March 2002

Features

• Toy or tool?
How do you choose technology you need now?

• Squeezing the budget
Funding is available if you know where to look and how to apply

• Tactical Showcase

• Officer safety is the bottom line
The National Tactical Officers Association and Spectra Technologies join together to form the “Safe Today, Alive Tomorrow- officer safety program

• How can the NTOA help you?
The National Tactical Officers Association offers services that are hard for law enforcement to pass up

• Defensive tactics training
Realistic, simplified and holistic describes today’s approach

• The Greenhouse Project
Noncommercial trial transfers data and more in the 700 MHz band

• Fingerprint and palmprint identification
Vendors say sales are increasing and technology is changing

• Forensics, AFIS & Investigations Showcase

• Improving the electrical system and optical warning devices
NFPA standards offer tips for equipping police cruisers

Columns

• Holster Technology
Safariland Raptor

• Training Technology
Flash-bang training system

• Internet Technology
Web sites inform

• Managing in the Millennium
Are you being filtered?

Departments

• Editor’s Log
• News
• Corporate News
• Products & Technology
• Computers & Software
• Calendar
• Publications