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Articlesby Tim DeesFebruary 15, 2011

New Developments In ALPR

Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology has been the "oh, wow" gadget for the past few years, and with good reason. ALPR can identify, screen, and record the license plates of more vehicles than an entire squad of police officers could handle, and can do it with greater accuracy and no fatigue factor.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2011

Conn. State Police Outfit 400 Vehicles With In-Car Video

The contract covers installation of Panasonic's Toughbook Arbitrator 360 in-car digital video system, which can record, transfer and store 360-degree high-quality digital video. Evidence can be transferred automatically to police station servers using wireless hotspots.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 10, 2011

Rockwell Collins' iForce System Increases Situational Awareness for Officers

Rockwell Collins' iForce system, which was unveiled at IACP 2010, allows officers to control radio, electronics and computer functions in their patrol vehicle using a single interface.

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Articlesby David GriffithFebruary 10, 2011

Rugged Notebooks: Tough and Secure

The Rugged Notebooks Eagle laptop has built-in biometric access control, is ruggedized to MIL-STD-810F, and is Windows 7 compatible.

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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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