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Newsby Staff WriterJune 16, 2009

Texas Sheriff Cancels Drone Planes After Fed Feedback

The Collin County Sheriff's Department's plan to buy several unmanned aircraft for surveillance has been grounded, the Dallas Morning News reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 8, 2009

Bell Sells Two 412EP Helicopters to NYPD

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, announced the sale of two 412EP helicopters to the New York Police Department (NYPD) for use as air-sea rescue helicopters.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 3, 2009

Philly Police Deploy Segway Patrols

The Philadelphia Police Department began using Segway personal transporters on Tuesday to patrol areas of the city about a year after an initial test, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 15, 2009

Arizona Man with Police Siren Pulls Over Off-Duty Officer

Officer Matt Lydic said a man driving a black Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor model turned on a police siren while driving behind him, authorities said. Lydic pulled over to the side of the road believing there was an emergency vehicle he couldn't see. The driver pulled up beside him and told him to slow down.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 8, 2009

NYPD Adds 40 Hybrid Cars to Fleet

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) deployed 40 hybrid vehicles to help green its fleet of patrol cars, bringing its number of hybrid vehicles to more than 100.

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ProductsMay 1, 2009

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 23, 2009

WatchGuard Video Receives Historic Order for Digital In-Car Video

WatchGuard announced today that the California Highway Patrol has placed an initial order for 2,000 overhead-mounted WatchGuard DV-1s, a digital police in-car video system that records high-resolution digital video in real time onto rewritable DVDs that play on regular DVD players.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 23, 2009

California Man Charged with Stealing Guns from Police Vehicles

A San Pablo man described as being obsessed with weapons and "tools of warfare" has been arrested in connection with the theft of rifles and shotguns from Contra Costa County sheriff's and California Highway Patrol cruisers, authorities said Tuesday.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 16, 2009

N.Y. Department's Patrol Cars to Get Priority Start Voltage Monitors

The Priority Start voltage monitors cost $100 apiece, so Sanders wanted to try them out before buying 25 of them to outfit all of the patrol cars.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 9, 2009

Patriot3 Giving Away Tactical Vehicle Through NTOA Grant Program

Through the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) Special Product Assistance for Needed Tactical Officers Assets (SPA) grants program, Patriot3 is giving away its demo RAID (Rescue, Access, Intervention, Deployment) vehicle equipped with the Liberator ETS (Elevated Tactics System).

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