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Most Americans are familiar with the duties of mounted U.S. Park police, overworked Border Patrol agents, dark-suited Secret Service agents, and anti-terrorist Federal Air Marshals. But the Mint Police, not so much.
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BlackHawk Products Group’s SERPA Auto Lock Level 3 Duty Holster is an improvement on the CQC SERPA holster introduced in 2004. The SERPA Auto Lock system provides a quick, natural draw with immediate security upon re-holstering to increase officer safety. The holster is lightweight and the injection molded carbon fiber composite construction provides incredible strength.
Read More →The Arlington, Va.-based International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP) has a new IACSP auction Website. It will specialize in new, used, and re-designed military and law enforcement products.
Read More →The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Tuesday the launch of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. The events of September 11, 2001 and last year’s hurricane season underscored America’s dependence on an effective national telecommunications infrastructure. The new bureau will build on the Commission’s longstanding commitment to meet the needs of public safety by promoting robust, reliable, and resilient communications services in times of emergency.
Read More →When Russian Special Forces units stormed the terrorist held school in Beslan on Sept. 3, 2004, John Giduck was landing in Moscow with his Archangel team of tactical consultants. Police Magazine editor David Griffith caught up with Giduck by phone as he was preparing to hit the road again, moving from agency to agency warning American cops that Beslan-type school sieges are coming to America.
Read More →BOOK REVIEW: Reading this book reminded me of how I felt when I viewed the film "United 93." I knew going in how it would end but, as they say, "The devil's in the details."
Read More →Version 2.0 improves VideoFOCUS’s ability to easily capture and export digital video, work with proprietary video data formats from security systems, and print images directly. It has an improved user interface to save time and effort. The software imports a wide range of digital video recorder file types including .PG, .WMF and .ASF, and can import and export as .MOV, .AVI and .WMF, for viewing through QuickTime and Windows Media Player.
Read More →TREXPO East 2006 sponsor companies are also exhibiting at the sold-out tactical response EXPO.
Read More →The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on one of the key standards and guidelines developed to help federal agencies improve their security.
Read More →The FBI and DHS are warning state and local partners to be on the alert for suicide bombers using large vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (LVBIED) and man-portable/hand-carried IEDs. Homeland Defense Journal's Managing the Threat of Suicide Bombers and Improvised Explosive Devices will provide useful information based on U.S. and other international case studies. It will take place Sep. 26-27 in Arlington, Virginia.
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