U.S. Government Examines Security Equipment for Law Enforcement

U.S. Government Examines Security Equipment for Law Enforcement

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16078491_s featureThe National Institute of Justice is gathering market research data from vendors of two different kinds of security technologies, body-worn cameras and person-screening portals, to detect contraband in body cavities. The goal: Side-by-side comparisons for the law enforcement and criminal justice communities.

According to Government Security News the NIJ’s Sensor, Surveillance and Biometric Technologies Center of Excellence is spearheading both of these information-gathering initiatives, according to separate announcements made by the National Institute of Justice on December 19. “The use of [body-worn cameras] by criminal justice practitioners (e.g., patrol, corrections, SWAT and other tactical responders) offers potential advantages in keeping officers safe, enabling situational awareness, improving community relations and accountability, and providing evidence for trial,” explained the NIJ notice.

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The notice invites manufacturers and suppliers of such body-worn cameras, which will be commercially available by January 21, 2014, to provide detailed answers to a long list of questions by Jan. 21. Similarly, the Sensor, Surveillance and Biometrics Technologies Center of Excellence is pulling together data about the various devices and systems that can screen for contraband concealed inside human beings.

Technologies that can detect non-metallic objects and/or items concealed within body cavities are the primary focus of this Request for Information (RFI), but information on traditional metal detectors will also be accepted,” said the NIJ notice. Responses from vendors will be accepted through Jan. 21.