Big Data: From Commercial to Security Applications
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 Database of Prison Inmates
Private biometric registries have been entering US law enforcement agencies. The Inmate Recognition Identification System, or IRIS, is a registry that allows law enforcement...
New Remote Fingerprint Scanning Application
A new mobile fingerprint scanning application for local and state law enforcement officers instantly searches state and national databases for a positive identification. The...
What Limits to Police Cellphone Tracking?
Police departments across the USA quietly use a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can track the whereabouts of suspects by using...
Unified Platform for Criminal Intelligence
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...
Replaying Crime Scene with Advanced Scanner
Police investigators often need a view of the crime scene long after it was cleared, and photos taken at the initial stages may not...
Smartphone Encryption Frustrates Law Enforcement
Many smartphones encrypt their contents when locked, as standard - a security feature that often prevents even the phones' manufacturers from accessing data. Such...
Next Generation of Smart Weapons
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 as Vital Law Enforcement Tools
Drones have become powerful and vital law enforcement tools. Police in Norfolk, England, will soon be using drones to help search for missing people,...
The New Weapon Might Rat Out on Its Owner
Recent years have seen the role of drones in criminal activity increasing significantly. In the area of cyber forensics, law enforcement faces a significant...
A New Resolution for Explosive Detection
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,...
Tech Powerhouse to Upgrade Its Smart City Solution
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,...
Future of Intelligence-Led Policing is Already Here
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...
Big Data Technology to Map Urban Crime
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,...
Big Data Role in Intelligence Missions
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...
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...
Body Cameras – Learning from Police Officers’ Experience
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...
Metal Detectors Locate Underwater Munitions
Before 1970, the widely accepted solution for disposal of old munitions, typically called unexploded ordnance (UXO), was to dump them into rivers, lakes and...
Innovative Reporting Tech for Law Enforcement Officers
The latest version of a documentation and report system for law enforcement professionals was unveiled recently. Dragon Law Enforcement by Nuance Communications is a...
New Ballistic Technology Helps Solve Crimes
A new ballistic technology is helping US federal agents and police create a day in the life of the guns being used by criminals...
New Technology Added to the Forensic Toolbox
Law enforcement officers’ work is becoming easier with the help of emerging technologies. Forensic laser systems are powerful lighting tools to help visualize forensic...
Voice Recognition Technology – Applied by Law Enforcement Teams
Drones fitted with facial recognition cameras and software programmed to recognise an individual’s voice in Arabic are some of the technologies that law enforcement...
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A new type of 3D-printed antenna could transform how vehicles, drones, and wearable devices maintain wireless communication while in motion. Developed by researchers at...
