Tag: Surveillance Operations

Patrol

Zenith AeroTech Delivers Two Tethered Aerial Vehicles to Federal Law Enforcement Agency

Each Quad 8 was designed to meet the customer’s need for a long-endurance aerial platform that could carry electro-optical/infrared video (EO/IR) video cameras, a communications relay system, and overhead, high-intensity light panels—all at the same time.

August 12, 2022

Special Units

North Carolina Officers Come Under Fire During Surveillance Operation

Officers with the Alamance County, NC, Narcotics Enforcement Team were conducting surveillance operations in a narcotics investigation when they came under fire on Wednesday night.

January 24, 2019

Technology

Cost-Effective Drone Solutions Can Help Police Save Lives

AEE

As drone-powered missions continue to have significant impact on the positive outcomes of law enforcement situations, users shouldn’t have to choose a $1,500 consumer drone because of a fear of flying a product which is priced 20 times higher.

September 1, 2018

Technology

Point Blank Enterprises Offers Covert Surveillance Using Truck Toolboxes

Point Blank Enterprises' new IRIS Covert Toolbox Surveillance System is made to be easily installed in any pickup truck in minutes. Once installed, the system can be started with a single "On" button and fully operated using a mobile phone or laptop from anywhere via Wi-Fi or cellular.

March 5, 2018

Training

Detroit Officer Killed in Crash During Training Exercise

Officer Darren Weathers, 25, known as "Lucky" by friends and colleagues, was involved in the crash about 11:30 a.m. He had been an officer with the Detroit Police Department for less than two years.

February 13, 2018

Patrol

Federal Judge Throws Out Cell Phone Evidence Gathered by Stingray Surveillance Device

For the first time, a federal judge has suppressed evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a stingray, a surveillance device that can trick suspects' cell phones into revealing their locations.

July 14, 2016

Technology

States Seek to Limit Use of Cell Phone Surveillance Tools

Controversy is brewing over local police use of cell phone surveillance tools to gather mass user data.

June 15, 2014

Patrol

U.S. Marshals Seize Fla. Surveillance Records ACLU Requested

A routine request in Florida for public records regarding the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray took an extraordinary turn recently when federal authorities seized the documents before police could release them to the ACLU.

June 4, 2014

Patrol

NYPD Disbands Unit That Surveilled Muslims

The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed, and shopped.

April 16, 2014

Technology

More Border-Patrol Drones Being Borrowed by Other Agencies

Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, a harbinger of what is expected to become the commonplace use of unmanned aircraft by police.

January 15, 2014

Special Units

Steiner Introduces Anti-Reflective Device For Binoculars

Steiner has announced the launch of its new Anti Reflective Device (ARD) for Steiner Military-type Porro-prism binoculars with 30mm and 50mm objective lenses. Designed to eliminate reflections from the objective lenses, which can compromise your position during covert operations, the ARD features a new honeycomb pattern that reduce reflections by up to 100 percent.

March 31, 2010

Gangs

The Buela Street Witch

Vetrovec and I were at the south window in hyper-vigilance mode, when one of the Geraghty homeboys pulled down the plywood covering the living room door, and the three Geraghty homeboys stepped inside.

October 29, 2009