Tag: IT

During my 20-year span as a cop in upstate New York, I saw periods of both traditional and community-oriented policing

When Matthew White was hired to take over the crime analysis unit at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, he was told by Undersheriff Frank MacKesy that he now had the car ...

WASHINGTON -- A federally funded computer service that has connected thousands of rural police to critical Internet and e-mail access is shutting down at the end of the month, jeopardizing ...

BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana is better prepared today to cope with emergencies thanks to an improved statewide communications plan, officials said. That plan is a change in radio communications that ...

AVALON, Calif. -- It seems even 22 miles of open ocean might not be keeping gangs off Catalina Island, a mist-shrouded outpost of Los Angeles County best known for its ...

When police officers in the Albion (Mich.) Department of Public Safety want to review reports on several incidents and look at photos of possible suspects, they don t have to ...

This month, our emphasis is on information technology, which has dramatically impacted policing over the past quarter century. Computers are commonplace in patrol cars, and there s a phenomenal amount ...

Many agencies worry about under-trained recruits coming from academies to law enforcement departments for full-time employment. Charles Knoll, executive director of the National Association of Field Training Officers, agrees with ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- When Oklahoma City firefighters received a report that a body had been buried in a shallow grave at Lake Overholser, they consulted detailed topographical maps from the ...

Has your department successfully implemented a new tech tool? Maybe you got a new records management system up and running, installed automatic license-plate readers, purchased new sighting systems for your ...