Forensic

Approaching suspected materials in order to check them is not always possible without risk. A new technology for the stand-off detection of trace quantities...

The FBI had been unable to access data from 7,775 devices in fiscal year 2017, a growing figure causing setbacks in cases from terrorism...

In commercial industries, understanding and analyzing big data on real time can lead to cost reduction, better-targeted marketing and increased efficiency. Like many businesses...

Private biometric registries have been entering US law enforcement agencies. The Inmate Recognition Identification System, or IRIS, is a registry that allows law enforcement...

A new mobile fingerprint scanning application for local and state law enforcement officers instantly searches state and national databases for a positive identification. The...

Police departments across the USA quietly use a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can track the whereabouts of suspects by using...

A new national criminal intelligence system has been launched in Australia after completing a two-year pilot of the nascent inter-jurisdictional platform. Now the Australian...

Police investigators often need a view of the crime scene long after it was cleared, and photos taken at the initial stages may not...

Many smartphones encrypt their contents when locked, as standard - a security feature that often prevents even the phones' manufacturers from accessing data. Such...

More and more law enforcement agencies prefer smart weapons as a less lethal solution for the use of force in public safety missions. Conducted...

Drones have become powerful and vital law enforcement tools. Police in Norfolk, England, will soon be using drones to help search for missing people,...

Recent years have seen the role of drones in criminal activity increasing significantly. In the area of cyber forensics, law enforcement faces a significant...

Scientists are developing new methods to reveal traces of drugs and bomb-making components. A rather new approach named spectroscopy and in particular, infrared absorption spectroscopy,...

Hitachi Insight Group, responsible for leading Hitachi Ltd.’s global unified internet of things business, recently introduced new software updates in its smart cities portfolio,...

A new police system is now trialled by the UK police. At the cutting edge of intelligence-led policing, VALCRI is a semi-automated analysis system...

Recently, Rio de Janeiro's authorities teamed with crime experts and concerned business leaders to launch a major big data based crime monitoring tool, ISPGeo,...

The operational world that interests governments the most nowadays is the intelligence world. Unlike the “national/military” intelligence of the past, the current intelligence realm...

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...

A new version of a law enforcement body camera will provide police officers with a better way to capture unbiased, tamper-proof video in nearly...

Before 1970, the widely accepted solution for disposal of old munitions, typically called unexploded ordnance (UXO), was to dump them into rivers, lakes and...

The latest version of a documentation and report system for law enforcement professionals was unveiled recently. Dragon Law Enforcement by Nuance Communications is a...

A new ballistic technology is helping US federal agents and police create a day in the life of the guns being used by criminals...