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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 17, 2011

Report: Federal Investment In Border Technology Falls Short

The ASU study stresses that to halt illegal crossings and contraband while expediting commerce through ports of entry, border field agents require immediate access to time-sensitive information and intelligence captured by license plate readers, unattended ground sensors and biometric identification kits.

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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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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 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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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 24, 2011

Raytheon To Open Public Safety Regional Technology Center

For the RTC, Raytheon is creating a research capability tailored to public safety needs and is forming a consortium of communications experts from across academia, industry and the public safety community.

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Inside the Badge by Dean ScovilleJanuary 12, 2011

Think Twice Before You Key That Mic

The mere fact that an officer broadcasts that a person of a particular racial background and gender was involved in a crime simultaneously accomplishes two things: It puts one group of potential suspects on cops' radars while effectively eliminating another.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 29, 2010

C4i Upgrades SwitchPlusIP To Manage Radio Calls

The latest version of SwitchPlusIP builds on the personal phone book and other features introduced earlier this year to provide a radio activity log, integrated voting, and remote control of Tait TB8100 radios.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 29, 2010

California PD's On-Body Recorder Captures Audio, Video, and Photos

The Fortuna PD deployed the communications device as "a crucial risk-management tool that is integrated into an officer's portable radio microphone." The agency purchased four VIDMIC devices with funding from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant.

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ProductsDecember 22, 2010

Remote Surveillance System

Kenwood USA's new wireless site-surveillance solution built on the digital NEXEDGE radio platform is designed to transmit images from video cameras in remote sites for easy and economical monitoring of events such as flooding and rockslides.

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Inside the Badge by Michael BosticDecember 16, 2010

Give Smartphones To Field Cops

Once these decision-makers accept what field cops instinctively know — that smartphones are the future — public safety departments will move quickly to adopt technologies that already exist.

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Inside the Badge by William HarveyNovember 30, 2010

Doing It In the Dark

Academies love to train you under perfect well-lit conditions; the FTO loves to train you under the adverse conditions. Take your skills to new and higher levels. Go practice in the dark.

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