Tag: IT

It started as just another pleasant January morning in the beachside community of Oceanside, Calif. The sun had broken through the morning fog that so often hovered over the coastal ...

It used to be that if your agency had a fan page (as opposed to an individual profile) your fans couldn’t send your organization private messages. With the new Facebook ...

The Grant County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) serves a predominantly rural agricultural community of about 90,000 people spread over about 2,680 square miles in central Washington State. Unfortunately, we’ve recently seen ...

Traffic enforcement is often an extensive part of a law enforcement official’s daily job. In these tough economic times, it’s expensive and difficult for agencies to meet the traffic enforcement ...

Redlands, California—GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis, the new workbook from Esri Press, combines step-by-step tutorials with independent exercises to teach readers the skills needed to apply mapping and analysis to ...

License plate reader (LPR) technology has been a real game-changer for law enforcement. Across our country, forward-thinking agencies are using LPR equipment to provide meaningful leads and solve crimes. Cops ...

Dave and I were sampling LE products throughout the summer, and one of the coolest things we’ve looked at so far is the Flir H-Series thermal imaging camera. The camera ...

I had the opportunity to listen to a presentation by Peter Haas, the CIO for Orleans Parish, at the 2011 National Association of Justice Information Systems conference in New Orleans. ...

In recent years, it’s become routine for law enforcement to use software applications that link crime incidents to location or place to obtain highly accurate visualizations of crime activity. LEOs ...

There are plenty of devices on the market today that can help make policing more efficient. Yet for all the different types and models of laptops, handhelds, tablets and smartphones, ...