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Sector Report for Tuesday, 10 January 2012: Law Enforcement Technology
This report contains the following stories.
Plus 1 additional story.
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Carbon Motors faces uncertain future
Carbon Motors, the makers of the specially designed E7 police car, are struggling to survive financially and could be forced to shutter its doors if a $300 million government loan is not approved
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Open-source searches help solve cold cases
Two detectives receive the LexisNexis One Step Closer award for effectively using searches of open or third-party information sources to solve cold cases
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LA sheriff department upgrading its 1980-era terminals
The Los Angeles Sheriff Department is upgrading its 1980s-era terminals, for which it had become difficult for the largest sheriff’s agency in the United States to find parts; the upgrade – Raytheon’s Mobile Digital Computer System (MDCS); the MDCS project and major technology upgrade represents the largest-ever deployment of mobile digital computers to a sheriff’s department in the country
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Protests spur sonic blaster sales boom
With the spate of protests from the Occupy Wall Street movement sweeping across the country, there has been a surge of interest in non-lethal crowd control systems; in particular U.S. police and first responders have taken a keen interest in Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD)
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LAPD abandons plans to move to Google cloud server
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) recently announced that it had scrapped its plans to move its email servers to a Google-based cloud system citing the technology’s inability to meet certain FBI security requirements
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Sector Report for Tuesday, 27 December 2011: Law Enforcement Technology
This report contains the following stories.
Plus 1 additional story.
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StressVest adds physical consequences to training
To give training scenarios added realism, StressVest Inc. has developed a vest which provides physical consequences to an exercise without endangering participants
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ShotSpotter expands to Midwest
Three cities in the Midwest recently announced plans to install gun-shot detecting systems; ShotSpotter, manufactured by SST Inc., has enabled law enforcement agencies in more than sixty cities across the country to know exactly when a shot is fired, where it came from, and how many
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FBI’s eGuardian integrated with Memex Patriarch
Deployed over the last three years, FBI eGuardian is a nationwide Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) system focused on counterterrorism tips and leads; the agency has now integrated eGuardian with Patriarch Intelligence Management Platform from Memmex
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Facial recognition systems for Orange County, California
Hunter Systems will sell and configure up to thirty-one Hunter SmartShot systems to twenty police departments in Orange County and to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department
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Jail installs facial recognition tool to prevent accidental releases
To prevent the accidental release of the wrong inmate, Madison County Jail in Alabama recently became the first prison in the United States to install 3D facial recognition technology
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Atlanta debuts new emergency communications systems
Last week first responders in Atlanta, Georgia gained a valuable new tool in helping to reduce 911 response times and improve communication during a disaster
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New technology helps Virginia Tech avoid another massacre
Last week Virginia Tech officials made all the right decisions after a man killed a campus police officer, showcasing the valuable lessons it had learned following the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre that left thirty-two people dead and twenty-five injured
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FBI opens new forensics lab for local law agencies in New Mexico
Thanks to a sophisticated new FBI forensics laboratory at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, local police now have access to cutting edge technology that can help streamline investigations
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