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Articles•by Melanie Basich•January 1, 2009

Wireless When You Need It

Not every natural disaster is as devastating as Katrina. But does your agency have a plan in place that would allow you to communicate in case a similar event occurred in your jurisdiction?

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IACP 2008: Best of Show

As exemplified by IACP 2008 held in San Diego in November, IACP tends to be about big ticket items: vehicles, software, video systems. This year's IACP was no exception.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 31, 2008

NYPD Prepares for Times Square's Festivities

A phalanx of rookie cops - one day out of the Police Academy - will be out in force on New Year's Eve as police keep watch on the festivities in Times Square. And keeping watch over them - and just about everyone else - will be Sky Watch, the retractable NYPD tower that allows police to spot problems from blocks away.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 22, 2008

Poughkeepsie Police Upgrade Public Safety Software Using New World Systems

The Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Police Department has signed a contract to license New World Systems’ Aegis/MSP Public Safety Solution on the Microsoft platform. The new software will replace New World’s Aegis 400 solution, on the IBM iSeries 400 platform, that the department has used since 1998.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 22, 2008

Blood from Mosquito Traps Finnish Suspect

Police in Finland believe they have caught a car-thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 17, 2008

3 Men Accused of Illegally Exporting Night Vision Goggles to Vietnam

Federal authorities are trying to determine the whereabouts of dozens of state-of-the-art goggles capable of illuminating battlefields at night and potentially undercutting the tactical advantage of U.S. soldiers if they were to fall into the wrong hands.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 16, 2008

MPRI Sells 12 Driver Simulators to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

MPRI today announced that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) has purchased 12 PatrolSim IV driver simulators. The simulators will be used to provide basic training to uniformed police and land management professionals.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 12, 2008

Philadelphia Police Radio System Will Cost $40 Million to Upgrade

A series of human errors caused a 40-minute failure in the city's police radio system July 22, according to a report submitted yesterday to City Council by the Nutter administration. The report also said the problem-plagued system would cost $40 million to upgrade—almost as much as it cost to install in 2002.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 8, 2008

EF Johnson Technologies Receives Certification for Transcrypt International

EF Johnson Technologies today announced that the quality systems of its Transcrypt International subsidiary's customer service location in Irving, Texas, have been re-certified to the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems standard. ISO 9001 is accepted worldwide as the inclusive international standard that defines quality.

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News•by Staff Writer•December 8, 2008

Mobile Satellite Ventures Changes Name to SkyTerra

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced it has changed its name to SkyTerra, which presently is the name of MSV’s parent company (SkyTerra Communications Inc.), and has become the name for all MSV-named entities operating in the United States and Canada.

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