For first responders, automation has the unparalleled potential to bring about systemic changes in their daily routines. While the gravity and timing of these changes remains uncertain, their arrival is inevitable.
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Many historical events have led to innovation and technological advances—often by individuals not directly identified with law enforcement—that shaped the way officers analyze, predict, fight, and prevent crime today. In this article, we will discuss GIS, social media, and identification tools.
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The rate of success for IT projects, as measured in time, budgets, and features, can be discouraging for government entities looking to invest in better infrastructure. By focusing on business value, identifying helpful features, soliciting client insight, and rethinking what is valuable, however, Agile software development methods are responsible for appreciably higher success rates.
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Body-worn cameras have been shown to reduce use-of-force incidents and may protect officers against frivolous citizen complaints. Department and community leaders should take a methodical approach, however, as they move toward requiring use of mobile cameras in the field.
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Envisage Technologies, a Bloomington, Indiana-based software company, announced November 5, 2017 that it was awarded a five (5) year contract with the Veterans Affairs Law Enforcement Training Center (VA-LETC) in North Little Rock, AR.
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Envisage Technologies, a Bloomington, Indiana-based high-technology firm, announced today that it was awarded a contract by the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPDC) for its Acadis Online service.
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Maximum security requires by definition a “closed system” whereas maximum utility requires “openness.” Is it possible to reconcile these two extremes? Can a highly secure system actually be easy to use? The security systems of the future must be highly convenient, largely transparent to end users, fully integrated across security domains, threat aware, and able to modify security policies “on the fly” in response to changing threat environments.
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While immediate needs exist to exchange firearms authorizations and decertification data, it is becoming increasingly evident that emergency management directives will request that POST, Academy and Agency organizations be in a position to provide training, certification and skills data to facilitate effective incident response. An XML standard based upon the vital data resident within the POST organizations would lay the foundation for significant advancements in interoperability.
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As never before, law enforcement academies and trainers are challenged by the increases in workloads and the complex anti-terrorism and information sharing demands of the post-9/11 world. New initiatives are hindered by lack of clarity and budget constraints, while the threat of litigation requires academies to seek training standardization and quality controls.
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The need to accelerate academy throughput while increasing existing workloads by requiring trainees to absorb additional vital materials is putting significant strain on current systems and requiring academies to reevaluate everything from instructional approaches and learning delivery to logistics, budgeting and academy benchmarking. By outlining some best practices in both process and technology that have been implemented by several of the largest U.S. law enforcement academies, this white paper can serve as a reference point for academies facing today’s difficult challenges.
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