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News•by Staff Writer•May 18, 2011

X-Ray of Truck Reveals Hundreds of Migrants Bound for U.S.

The X-ray image was taken by Chiapas state police examining trucks at a checkpoint in the outskirts of the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez that revealed 513 migrants crammed into two trailers bound for the U.S. The migrants apparently paid $7,000 each to the smugglers.

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News•by Staff Writer•May 16, 2011

Panasonic Introduces 4G Toughbook Laptop

Panasonic's Toughbook 53 is the company's first rugged laptop that can operate on 4G LTE mobile broadband. The Toughbook 53, which weighs 5.6 pounds and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life, arrives with a 14-inch high-def display. The Toughbook 53 is powered by a second generation Intel i5 or i3 processor.

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Articles•by Ronnie Garrett•May 16, 2011

Fortifying Police Stations

Police administrations can implement a variety of technologies to beef-up police facility security. While cameras are often top of mind in every police facility—even the old and outdated ones—many other technologies exist to monitor and secure these buildings.

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News•by Staff Writer•May 12, 2011

Fla. City Installs Genetec Security Center to Protect Police HQ

Sanford, Fla., has installed Genetec's unified security platform, the Security Center, for both access control and video surveillance in their new public safety complex.

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News•by Staff Writer•May 6, 2011

RAM Introduces Tough-Dock for Panasonic Toughbook CF-52

The dock offers full port replication, on-board power supply, a tamper-proof lock, and integrated screen support. The RAM Tough-Dock can be integrated into an existing RAM system, or mounted to a Toughbook with a complete kit.

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News•by Staff Writer•May 6, 2011

PoliceCommunity.net Training Portal Reaches 10,000 Subscribers

PoliceCommunity.net currently offers nine general subject domain courses representing more than 50 hours of in-service training with three more courses scheduled to come online before the end of this calendar year, and an additional 10 courses now in-progress.

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News•by Staff Writer•May 5, 2011

Spillman Provides Upgraded Mobile Software To Customers

Spillman Technologies has released Mobile 4.6, an enhanced software product designed to help public safety agencies access crucial information from the field.

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Articles•by David Griffith•May 3, 2011

Secret Agent: Sur-Tec's VP Covert App

Sur-Tec's VP Covert Audio and GPS software suite is a patented surreptitious listening tool for law enforcement that allows an undercover officer or CI to stream live audio and GPS to one or more computers. The mobile application element of the software runs in the background on the user's smartphone.

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News•by Staff Writer•May 2, 2011

Dogfighting Game Renamed, Back on Sale

In the letter sent Thursday to Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, Los Angeles Police Protective League President Paul M. Weber urged Google "to do the right thing and ban this game permanently."

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News•by Staff Writer•May 2, 2011

Hackers Stole IDs of 2,000 Retired California Officers

In a Sunday evening e-mail, PORAC informed its members that its data server was breached earlier this month. The hackers stole application files of retired associate members going back to 2008.

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