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News•by Staff Writer•February 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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News•by Staff Writer•February 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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News•by Staff Writer•February 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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News•by Staff Writer•February 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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News•by Staff Writer•February 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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News•by Staff Writer•February 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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Products•January 28, 2011

CommandSpace Argus Surveillance System

The CommandSpace Argus wide area surveillance system from ICx Technologies is designed to provide perimeter intrusion detection. CommandSpace Argus is a pre-configured system that includes integrated ground surveillance radar and thermal imaging cameras.

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Products•January 28, 2011

Tactical Operation Center Software

The Tactical Operation Center (TOC) software is used in conjunction with ELSAG North America's MPH-900 ALPR system by alerting dispatchers and additional patrol units immediately when an MPH-900 patrolling police car alarm occurs.

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News•by Staff Writer•January 26, 2011

FCC Picks LTE for Public Safety Network

The announcement was cautiously applauded by law enforcement supporters of a national broadband network that would replace the web of disparate radio frequencies that often thwart communication between police, fire and EMS during incident response.

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Articles•by Joe Biela and Sam Izzarelli•January 26, 2011

Conn. Agencies Use Appriss to Track Sex Offenders

The public can now access the state's upgraded system to track the whereabouts of registered sex offenders by street location, city or town, or by a radial area, a registrant's name, or by compliance status. In addition, parents can print fliers on child safety from their own computers.

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