New York City police plan to put body cameras on all 23,000 of its patrol officers by 2019, and agreed to a five-year $6.4 million contract with Vievu for 5,000 body cameras and a cloud-based storage system.
Read More →Med-Eng announced the launch of the Avenger Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) bomb disposal and tactical robot at the 2017 SHOT Show.
Read More →The Safariland Group has completed the acquisitions of Pacific Safety Products Inc., Aegis Engineering Limited, and LBA International Limited, known for the design and production of high-performance protective apparel for defense and law enforcement.
Read More →The FirstSpear Tubes closure system for armor carriers connect and disconnect quickly and reduce the weight of traditional systems.
Read More →NYPD officials say the department's new Safariland 6360 ALS gun holster with an automatic locking system is more secure than its previous holster. The department started issuing it to all new recruits in June of 2014. The Safariland 6360 ALS was not in use by the officer who was attacked Tuesday and lost his gun to a suspect who killed an uninvolved bystander.
Read More →For April Fools' Day this year, some manufacturers of law enforcement gear came up with clever ways to prank customers, all in good fun.
Read More →During SHOT Show 2016, the Safariland Group SAVES Club honored two American police officers who were saved in the line of fire by armor from The Safariland Group family of brands.
Read More →At the SHOT Show this week body-worn camera maker Vievu and its parent company Safariland showed auto-activation technology for triggering a recording on a body-worn camera once a weapon is drawn from an officer’s Safariland 7TS series duty holster or once an item of equipment is removed from an officer’s Safariland ALERT Belt.
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