The Dallas Police Department—facing, as so many departments across America do, a staffing shortage—is looking at increased use of surveillance cameras to provide a "virtual patrol" to enhance coverage of protection against crime.
March 5, 2020
In New Hampshire, the Barrington Police Department and Dover Police Department are growing closer to adopting the use of body cameras.
March 5, 2020
An undisclosed number of troopers with the New York State Police will soon be wearing body cameras in a recently announced pilot program to investigate their effectiveness and their impact.
February 27, 2020
The North Miami Beach Police Department was hit with a ransomware cyber attack and has been told that it must pay millions of dollars to regain access to critical information that has now been locked down.
February 11, 2020
Officers with the New York Police Department will soon be putting down their pens and setting aside their hefty department-issued memo books in favor of a new mobile phone app that they will use to keep a detailed log of their daily activities on patrol.
February 7, 2020
Honeywell has announced the newest addition to its Spectra Shield 6000 series for high-performing ballistic materials, Spectra Shield 6166, which further expands Honeywell's suite of high-performing hard armor products for militaries and law enforcement.
January 30, 2020
CentralSquare, a leader in public sector technology, has announced the release of three new feature stories as part of ShareBlueSmiles, a national campaign whose mission is to deepen trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
November 24, 2019
The Costa Mesa City Council voted 5-0 on Tuesday night to approve $1.125 million this fiscal year to buy five replacement vehicles and upgrade or replace the video systems in the California city's police cars.
November 22, 2019
The Oshkosh (WI) Police Department announced plans to enable citizens to use a mobile app to report non-emergency incidents to the agency.
September 10, 2019
The Syracuse (NY) Police Department is adding a new high-tech capability to monitor and more quickly respond to crimes in progress.
April 12, 2019
Officers with the New York Police Department now have a better way to communicate with subjects who are deaf or hard of hearing with a teleconferencing system that is similar to Skype, allowing the hearing impaired person to speak in sign language and the officer to communicate verbally with a translation conducted by interpreters employed by the city.
February 1, 2019
The National Law Enforcement Museum has unveiled its 911 Emergency Ops exhibit, sponsored by Motorola Solutions. The exhibit allows visitors to take on the important role of a 911 dispatcher and learn how this communications system is essential to the work of law enforcement.
October 10, 2018
Data obtained from a murdered woman's "Fitbit" activity tracker may have led police in California to the suspected murderer.
October 5, 2018
The Department of Justice has announced more than $70 million in grant funding to bolster school security and support responding law enforcement officers, and more than $64 million to state agencies to improve the nation’s criminal record systems
October 4, 2018
Three convicted hackers—22-year-old Paras Jha, 21-year-old Josiah White, and 22-year-old Dalton Norman—continue to cooperate with the FBI on cybercrime and cybersecurity matters, as well as continued cooperation with and assistance to law enforcement and the broader research community, according to a DOJ press release.
September 21, 2018
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