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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 31, 2002

Emergency Call-Takers Hired Using CritiCall Software

The Spotsylvania County Communication Center in Virginia needed to hire four emergency call-takers immediately to handle the volume of calls while handling the DC sniper case. Criticall 3.0 helped them hire the right employees for the job.

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Articlesby Melanie BasichApril 1, 2002

Wireless Communication

Every day there seems to be a new invention or upgrade in the area of wireless communications for law enforcement.

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Articlesby Lois Pilant GrossmanOctober 1, 2001

Car 54 Where Are You...?

Communications may be the backbone of law enforcement, yet it can also be its most technologically confusing, politically charged and seemingly insoluble problem in the adrenaline-fueled chaos of a multi-jurisdictional or mutual-aid situation.

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Articlesby Jo’el RothOctober 1, 2001

Cell Phone Sense

"Cell phones allow us to go beyond the capabilities of the radio and allow us to communicate with each other and the public. When a cell phone is assigned to an officer, they have voice mail, messaging and Internet access. It frees them up from being in the office."

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Articlesby Clint SmithJuly 1, 2001

Communicate, Move, Shoot

These three skills can offer simple solutions to often complicated problems in the field.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleJuly 1, 2001

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes ...

Officer safety tactics have evolved to accommodate the prospect of dealing with suspects via a variety of media, developing a hitherto unknown degree of intimacy with a suspect even as it keeps him at bay.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 1, 2001

Cellphones Drowning Police Radio Signals

s the number of wireless subscribers increases, interference will become even more common, according to Ron Haraseth of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials.

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Articlesby Shelly Feuer DomashOctober 1, 2000

Smooth Sailing in the Big Apple

What could have been a logistical nightmare—replete with miscues, bruised egos or worse—at the city's largest event on record, instead developed into a finely tuned, dynamic project that set sail for its duration without major incident.

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