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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Tuesday the launch of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. The events of September 11, 2001 and last year’s hurricane season underscored America’s dependence on an effective national telecommunications infrastructure. The new bureau will build on the Commission’s longstanding commitment to meet the needs of public safety by promoting robust, reliable, and resilient communications services in times of emergency.

Before ditching or donating that used computer, CD, or other data-storage media, sensitive or personal information should be properly “sanitized,” according to a new guide from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Every TREXPO show is a little bit different. TREXPO East 2006, held Aug. 22-24 in Chantilly, Va., may have been the most exciting TREXPO show in recent memory. The show aisles were crowded as officers saw a variety of innovative new products for both SWAT and patrol operations. The conference rooms were sometimes standing-room only.

Smith & Wesson Corp. has secured contracts to supply the Columbus (Ohio) Police Department and the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Police (DFW) with the company’s advanced-design polymer pistol, the M&P40.

The man who neighbors say had besieged them with flashes of naked flesh for years stepped out of his Martin County, Fla., trailer again Thursday morning, ready to launch a full frontal assault against a jogger walking a slightly overweight blonde pug.

A man has been charged with capital murder after he allegedly shot and killed a Houston police officer from the back seat of a patrol car.

Violent crime rose 2.3 percent last year, the first increase since 2001, the FBI reported Monday.

A state trooper who was shot during the hunt for one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted fugitives was a "hero in the very truest sense of the word," Gov. George Pataki said at the lawman's funeral Monday.

On the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on America, the National Governors Association (NGA) has announced the creation of a Public Safety Task Force in recognition of governors' evolving role and responsibility in enhancing the safety of their states' residents.

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The traveling United in Memory 9/11 Victims Memorial Quilt seeks to immortalize the memory of those who died that day.