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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2011

Prison Guards Main Source of Smuggled Cellphones

Union officials say they don't necessarily oppose searches; they also cite a work requirement that corrections officers must be paid for "walk time" — the minutes it takes them to get from the front gate to their posts behind prison walls.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2011

Laserfiche Awards California Agency's Gang Enforcement Imaging

Today, LBPD officers have the ability to retrieve documents such as tickets, restraining orders, arrest reports, policies and procedures. The system allows them to retrieve the documents from their patrol vehicles, whereas in the past they could only view them from computers in the police station.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 8, 2011

Five Police Agencies Adopt Salient Stills for Forensic Video

The annual subscription to VideoFOCUS Pro provides access to powerful forensic video enhancement tools, which, through concurrent licensing, can be shared between the departments.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 8, 2011

ACLU To Chicago: Stop Adding Surveillance Cameras

The American Civil Liberties Union issued a report today calling on Chicago city leaders to stop adding to the network of video surveillance cameras accessible to the police department.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 5, 2011

FLIR Introduces Bi-Ocular Hand-held Thermal Imager

The BHS-Series Bi-Ocular features a full-coverage eyepiece, inter-ocular adjustment, ergonomic comfort, and FLIR's high-resolution thermal cores. It's ideal for missions requiring longer standoff distances.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 3, 2011

TiaLinx's Cougar20-H Mini-Robot Probes for Human Breathing

The Cougar20-H mini-robot system is capable of motion detection as well as probing for a person's breathing in a compound while being remotely controlled from long standoff distances.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 3, 2011

Raytheon and UCLA To Establish Center for Public Safety Network Systems

The mission of the UCLA-ITA Public Safety Network Systems Center is to bring together academia, industry and public safety agencies to provide technical leadership, a collaborative forum for research, and to establish standards for public safety networks.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 3, 2011

Feds Ask for Next-Gen Border Surveillance Technology

The new border technology strategy is divided into three solution areas — agent-centric solutions, mobile-sensor solutions and fixed sensor solutions. These solutions should be able to determine if the moving object is a human, animal, vehicle or something else.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 2, 2011

LAPD Clears DNA Evidence Backlog

Information provided in the kits from the original backlog has resulted in 521 matches in a national database of known offenders. There also have been 41 "case-to-case hits," some of which found serial offenders or an unknown suspect who has committed other crimes.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 1, 2011

Traffic Fatalities Drop In Cities With Red-Light Cameras

Researchers found that in the 14 cities that had cameras from 2004 to '08, the combined per capita rate of fatal red light running crashes fell 35 percent, compared with 1992-96. The rate also fell in the 48 cities without camera programs by 14 percent.

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