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Side Scan SONAR devices allow images of the ocean floor to be viewed as if one is looking through a window. It "removes the water" to provide the operator with a bird's-eye view of their target.
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Deep Ocean Engineering’s new Phantom T5 Defender is a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) designed for law enforcement. It can be configured with up to five Tecnadyne thrusters to provide significant control and propulsion in current to maneuver efficiently in all directions.
Read More →The lesson of the Baltimore exercise is quite clear: police agencies can't just arbitrarily decide that their jurisdictions end at the water's edge and assume that anything on the water will be handled by the Coast Guard, the Navy, or somebody else.
Read More →The Rapid Rotation Baton from RRB Systems is a hybrid design that combines features of straight and side-handle batons in a single design. Developed specifically for police and corrections work, it quickly moves from a powerful offensive position to a secure defensive position with a simple rotation. Because of its unique carry holster it can be worn while standing.
Read More →The Fulton County (NY) Sheriff's Department purchased a JW Fishers dual frequency side scan system and has found some interesting things, including the foundation and well of an old house in Sacandaga Lake.
Read More →Loggers are not hurt and killed on duty because some dirtbag tree doesn’t want to go back to jail and opens fire instead of surrendering to the inevitable.
Read More →C-Map Systems’ WriteGPS II is an intelligent GPS video overlay and typewriter. It’s a self-contained 9- to 24-volt, palm-sized unit that overlays video with GPS time, date, position coordinates, altitude, depth, and heading. It can convert Lat/Long GPS coordinates to all NAD27 and NAD83 zones.
Read More →Technology available to law enforcement agencies has vastly changed how officers conduct operations. And robots are a large part of this advancement.
Read More →Side-scan sonar is known as a "towfish" — it's a torpedo-like device towed behind a boat. The towfish converts acoustic sound pulses into a video image of the river bottom. To a trained operator, the resulting image offers a photographic view of the bottom that can be used to identify items of interest.
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