Tag: Technology Communications

Individual officers & management commonly throw these questions out when asked about how their agency's records are stored & used. A records management system (RMS) is basically a data-storage system ...

The first article in this series on robbery outlined the elements of these crimes, provided national statistics on rate of occurrence and weapons used, and discussed victimization data, robbery types, ...

This article first appeared on PoliceOne.com. Ever think about what you'd do if alligators were swimming through the yards and streets of your beat? Or if your patrol fleet was ...

You're a computer forensic examiner for your department, working on a network intrusion case. The evidence you extract from several computers and firewall logs clearly shows the suspect broke through ...

In June 1992, I ran the Springfield (Mo.) Police Department s full-time tactical team, which primarily focused on serving drug-related search warrants and resolving barricades. I received a call concerning ...

Potentially dangerous exposures to lead can occur in both indoor and outdoor gun ranges. Lead originates from unjacketed lead bullets, primer compound, discharge of a firearm, and fragmentation of the ...

American law enforcement agencies have much to be proud of. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), from 1995–2004 violent crime fell 32 percent nationwide and property crime decreased ...

As law enforcement officers throughout the nation, we all have heard the statistics: Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States. There were 3,100 victims of identity-theft ...

The days are gone when building a patrol vehicle meant a red gumball, a portable radio and some paint. Today s vehicles are filled with computers, MDTs, GPS sensors, cellular ...

Today, everything's computerized, or at least it seems so. Don't believe me? Just imagine a late 1950s shade-tree mechanic trying to tune-up one of today s vehicles.