Body Cameras to Monitor Police Conduct
Too many incidents occuring between police officers and civilians which involve controversial use of force by officers, brutality and unjustified shootings have caused a...
White House Seeks To Jumpstart Smart Gun Technology
Washington is putting serious effort into pushing smart gun technology forward. The White House has just released a joint report by the Defence, Justice,...
Thermal Cameras – Will They Prevent Shootouts in Public Places?
Over the backdrop of the shootout attack carried out in a public domain, the city of New Orleans has been considering the use of...
New Technique to Find Latent Prints at Crime Scenes
A new technique has been developed to assist in finding latent prints at the crime scene. In a crime scene examination, investigators collect items of...
AR/VR Technologies As Threat Modeling Tools
Augmented reality and virtual reality have the potential to serve as threat modeling tools that could enhance security professionals’ understanding of the threat landscape...
New sUAS Missions Vary from Surveillance to Disaster Assemssment
A new sUAS (small unmanned aircraft system) was recently introduced to market – the STORM – a small tactical UAS that comes as a...
Homeland security simulators help train first responders
Simulators to train first responders are being developed in many countries. One has recently been inaugurated in Concordia University.
According to the Skanner, this is...
Turkey Forms Comprehensive Border Control Unit to Protect Homeland Security
Paz Shabtai
Perhaps due to international pressure, mainly from the US and Russia, to secure its border with Syria and to enforce strict border control,...
New Security Means for US Law Enforcement Cars
Law enforcement cars will be equipped with a new protection technology. FCA US LLC, an established automaker, recently declared that effective immediately, all 2017...
Technology Enables Control of Robots from Great Distances
Scientists in Russia wearing an exoskeleton succeeded in controling a distant connected robot in Germany, within the fraemwork of a project called CAPIO with...
New Platform Will Assist First Responders
Hurricane Matthew was one of the first operational uses of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) HURREVAC-eXtended (HV-X)...
Military-grade weapons used by U.S police
Several U.S federal programs are helping local law enforcement to acquire heavy weapons. This is done either by making funds available or by providing the equipment directly.
One...
Is Your Android Device Really Secure?
We have written before about China building its own secure smartphone ecosystem - including a homegrown operating system and even processing chips - all...
DHS Is Calling For Ways Of Improvement
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a request for information, stating that it wants businesses to present it with their most cutting-edge...
UK Metropolitan police Embracing New Technologies
Body-worn cameras, laptops, smartphones and mobile working -all those things sounded like science fiction to the Metropolitan police officers not long time ago. But...
Toxic Materials Disposal in Israel – New Developments
The Israeli Fire Fighting and Rescue Authority is now in charge of toxic materials monitoring and threat assessment, responsibilities previously held by the Environmental...
Siren Warning Tests in the U.S
The Indiana Division of Homeland Security will conduct siren tests as part of a statewide tornado drill.
Two tests will be initiated by the National...
New Graduate program – Fire Sciences: cooperation between Israel Fire and...
Haifa University will feature a new graduate program, Fire Sciences, in cooperation with the Israeli Fire and Rescue Authority.
The Authority considered establishing its own...
Police want right to see medical records without consent
Police want new and expanded rights to access medical records and other confidential data without an individual's consent, a senior police chief has told...
Small UAS sold freely: major risk
"This is a threat many worldwide prefer not to deal with," say Israeli experts in response to the incident in which a drone landed...
Confronting Spontaneous Terrorist Attacks
A prominent feature of many terrorist attacks in recent months by Islamic radicals is their independent, spontaneous, unplanned nature – sometimes called the work...
Airport Body Scanners Fail To Provide Security
Since 2008, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has spent $160 million on scanners to identify passengers which may be carrying weapons. These scanners, however,...
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A New Anti-Drone Turret Fires in Every Direction at Once
Small drone swarms are becoming increasingly difficult to stop using traditional air-defense systems. Conventional remotely operated gun turrets usually rely on mechanically rotating toward...
