First Responders

FoxFury Lighting Solutions recently announced its new Taker R40 shield light for police, military and security forces. The shield is a powerful lighting tool...

The US Department of Homeland Security has found a new geospatial solution to enhance first responders’ incident management capabilities. The Department’s Science and Technology...

New body cameras embedded into police officers’ uniform offer automatic, policy-based recording functionality, helping police officers automatically capture, offload and view media evidence. Manufactured...

Public safety officials are in a fierce search for applications that will help them with their tasks. The forces also need to be compact...

Body cameras can enhance the capabilities of law enforcement teams in finding evidence and solving crimes rapidly, but is this documentation accessible enough to...

YDreams Global, the creative and technical supplier for brands such as Cisco, Qualcomm, Intel as well as the Government of Rio de Janeiro, has...

Some of the most dangerous threats encountered by the military, law enforcement, first responders and emergency personnel - like toxic, airborne chemicals - are often...

Police services around the world use facial recognition databases in order to identify criminals. Nearly half of all American adults have been entered into...

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing is looking to chip in on the fire-fighting business revolution by applying two contemporary pieces of technology - drones and augmented...

Insurance provider Direct Line’s new Fleetlights service intends to bring peace of mind to anyone walking, running, or driving at night by illuminating their...

A new Massachusetts police department drone will soon provide investigators reconstructing car accidents with a much-needed eye in the sky — and is expected...

Eight innovative startups gave a spectacular and fascinating presentation at the graduation event of the iHLS security accelerator’s first cycle, which took place at...

Tape measures and photos used to be the standard equipment for documenting any type of crime scene by law enforcement. But uneven ground and...

The Dutch national police might be using augmented reality and hologram technologies in fighting crime, within the framework of an innovative project. The project...

Transporting maps and geographic information to emergency responders quickly is critical to making strategic decisions on resources, personnel, services and disaster-coping. Buffalo Computer Graphics...

Helping law-enforcement officers make better decisions when deciding when to use force has become increasingly important in light of the public debate on the...

Cooperation between customs and law enforcement forces has yielded impressing results. A global counter-smuggling operation coordinated by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and INTERPOL...

A new project will develop and implement a system to facilitate the coordination among responders and improve civil emergency management during natural disasters across...

An original technology allows the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and insect cyborgs, or biobots, to map large and unsafe zones, like cities...

UK police forces fear that the threat of far-right violence is growing and poses danger to communities, says a senior counter-terrorism officer. The senior national...

A recent patent application by Boeing reveals an autonomous solution that would allow dual-use drones to operate for months, overcoming the battery life problem. The...

Police body cameras are rapidly being deployed in cities across the US, and we may be failing to fully consider the risks of pervasive...