Law Enforcement
VIEVU Partnership With Motorola Solutions For Line Of Body Worn Cameras
VIEVU, the industry leader in body worn video (BWV) for police, law enforcement and other security organizations, today announced its partnership with Motorola Solutions, enabling Motorola to add a small form-factor, highly secure body worn video (BWV) solution camera to their existing security product line. The advancement of video technology offers new tools to law […]
The Missing Link In Border Security
Comprehensive, large-scale border security that fits within a nation?s budget has been a major challenge to technologists. This is especially true for the U.S. Southwest border where, so far, technology has come up short. A new system based on existing technology may hold the promise of providing what has been the missing link in border […]
Cooling Crime Hotspots With Mobile Surveillance Technology
How Glenwood Police Department uses portable video camera platform as roving security zone Like many small town police departments seeking to maintain neighborhood safety, the Village of Glenwood, Ill., needed to squeeze every ounce of value from its law enforcement tools. Budget-wise, a city-wide surveillance solution was out of the question. The chief of police […]
San Leandro Moves Ahead With More Security Cameras; Hints At Limiting Data Retention
San Leandro City Council approved to move ahead with expanding its video surveillance system, however, with hesitation over the one-year retention period of information collected by the cameras. The council approved, 5-2, directing staff to formulate a plan for additional cameras at two undetermined location. Mayor Stephen Cassidy and Councilmember Ursula Reed both dissented. The […]
Stop, Frisk, and Record
From New York City to Rialto, CA: Police Body Cameras Issues include whether a mandatory worn-video appliance would compromise police duties and effectiveness; would politicize basic law enforcement; would provide social activists with a diversionary platform; would open the door to extensive past and present complaints leading to backlogs of lawsuits; would end up benefitting […]
Man Videotaped PIN Input By Customers At St. Charles Bank’s ATM
Svetoslave T. Tanev was charged with forgery in St. Charles County and trafficking in stolen identities in St. Louis County. A man was charged with setting up a video camera at an ATM to record people as they punched in their PINs outside a St. Charles bank. The video camera was found Sept. 19 on an ATM at Enterprise Bank and Trust, 1001 First Capitol Avenue in St. Charles. One man, Svetoslav T. Tanev, 27, of Arlington Heights, IL, was charged Sept. 19 with forgery in St. Charles County Circuit Court. Officer Erik Lawrenz said St. Charles police saw video surveillance footage of the car used by the men who set up the camera. Officers soon located the car in the 1300 block of Bass Pro Drive near Bank of America. Lawrenz said officers do not know if they planned an operation at First Bank of America. The men were staying at a hotel in the same area, Lawrenz said. Police found more than 100 credit cards, an encoding machine and $12,000 in cash in a St. Charles hotel room occupied by Tanev and a second man. Tanev also was charged with trafficking in stolen identities in St. Louis County. Creve Coeur Police said an armored truck driver was refilling an ATM at the US Bank branch at 126880 Olive Blvd. in Creve Coeur when he saw a device attached to the top of the machine. Police found a small video camera trained on the ATM’s keypad to allow […]
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IACP Sets Policy Standards For ALPR/ANPR
s reported by NDI Recognition Systems, an IACP report on license plate recognition offers agencies information to help set policies and operational standards. Automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology has been adopted by approximately 23 percent of U.S. law enforcement agencies, according to a report released by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). […]
Embracing The Police Force Of The Future
(CNN) – Contrary to the Hollywood image in movies like “Minority Report,” technology hasn’t served law enforcement particularly well over the years. Fragmented and complex operating systems have challenged police officers to manually enter information into multiple programs. And yet officers still struggle to retrieve the information they need — especially in the field, where it can be a matter of life or death. A large number of law enforcement agencies are still hindered by antiquated technologies. But agencies that have upgraded their operating and investigative systems have been tremendously effective in ensuring the safety of their citizens. Police forces like the Guardia Civil in Spain and An Garda Siochana in Ireland were early technology adopters and now benefit from some of the most efficient police operations and investigative systems in the world. These are the police forces of the future — the ones that others will be modeling themselves after in the years to come. Accenture recently studied police forces from around the world and found that in every region, police are hungry for new technology. They see tech such as analytics, biometrics (identification of humans by their characteristics or traits) and facial recognition as keys to effectively fighting crime and maximizing the time officers spend in the field. Despite the reality of reduced budgets, law enforcement agencies that adopt new technologies can prevent crimes more effectively and solve crimes faster. Video analytics What many people don’t know is that there’s a solid infrastructure of closed-circuit TV in […]
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San Benito, TX Approves Surveillance Cameras Purchases
SAN BENITO ? Soon, city officials will be on the watch around the clock. City commissioners this past week approved a budget that includes money to buy about $120,000 worth of surveillance cameras, officials said. After about two years of planning, officials said the city will buy more than 50 cameras to install at city […]
Greenville Police Reported A 32 Percent Drop In Crime
The monitor takes up a wall of the communications center, and it is always on. Dozens of screens show various angles of downtown Greenville, some panning, some fixed in place. Cars stopping at traffic lights, pedestrians crossing the street ? every second is recorded on police cameras and streamed back to this room. Trained on […]
The Visitor Control Center At Navy?s Building 197
September 16th, 2013 | Defense | Posted by jim mcelhatton close Author: jim mcelhatton Name : Email: [email protected] Site: About: See Authors Posts (28) Access into the Washington Navy Yard’s Building 197, where a shooting rampage in Washington left at least a dozen people dead Monday, includes a security clearance check and vetting by contract-hired “visitor control technicians,” contract records show. Authorities have identified Aaron Alexis, 34, a Navy veteran, as the dead gunman. While it’s unclear how Alexis got into the building Monday morning, the Associated Press reported that he may have used someone’s identification. In April, the Navy hired Kansas-based contractor Transtecs Corp. for “visitor control office support services” at the Washington Navy Yard, according to the government’s online procurement database. While there’s no indication that Transtecs’ work has come under question in the shooting, contract records related to the company’s hiring do shed light on the sort of vetting the Navy requires to get into Building 197, which houses the Navy’s Sea Systems Command. A 30-page task order on the company’s website says Transtecs provides the labor to support the ID badging system and associated equipment at the building. A person who answered the phone for Transtecs Monday said the company declined to comment. Entry into the building includes a check of the Joint Personnel Adjudication System to verify an individual’s clearance level prior to authorizing access, the task order shows. “The contractor shall utilize the government furnished Picture Perfect Access Control System to issue […]
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Politicians Weigh In On Boston ?Surveillance Cameras
Search quickly: You could use mouse crossed, get unlimited reading. Pols weigh in on Boston ?surveillance cameras bostonherald.com 2013-09-11 08:15:38 Boston needs more public surveillance cameras to help law enforcement respond to terrorist threats and even thwart potential attacks, several mayoral candidates reached by the Herald agreed yesterday. “Those cameras, they’re out there and they’ve been helpful; that’s really how the Boston Marathon case was solved,” said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F Follow-up report to me Any reported complete Just news photo Just video . Conley, who said a closed-circuit television system monitored by officers with cameras at key locations throughout the city would allow quicker police response. “If I’m mayor of Boston, I’m going to make sure that we have a publicly deployed system down on Boylston Street for sure, and we’re going to harden that target.” Federal funding for surveillance skyrocketed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York City, and Bay State authorities have been more strident in their support for them since the April 15 marathon bombings. This summer, state police installed an unspecified number of new cameras on the Esplanade ahead of the Fourth of July. The growth of video surveillance in cities such as New York and London has sparked civil liberties concerns. State Rep. Martin J. Walsh said if elected mayor, he will “certainly take a look” at adding more cameras, but he added, “There are already a lot of security cameras in Boston, including private security cameras that have been […]
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Ohio: Should Facial Recognition Be Limited? Part 2
Ohio?s law enforcement database and its facial recognition software are open to more than just law enforcement, a concern of members of the advisory group reviewing the security of the systems. The 30,000 users that access the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway, or OHLEG, include court employees such as clerks of courts, bailiffs and parole officers, […]
The Growth of Safe Cities
Crime rates tend to grow with the population, and today?s municipal crime comes in all forms ? from petty theft to violent assault, arson and acts of terrorism. But when tasked with securing a sprawling modern metropolis ? many of which are domicile to well over 1 million people ? how should officials best leverage […]
Ohio Attorney General DeWine Says Home Security Seller Misled Consumers
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a lawsuit charging Utah-based Vision Security LLC with misleading Ohio consumers and failing to honor their cancellation requests. ?This business came to consumers? homes and pressured them into buying security systems,? Attorney General DeWine said. ?Representatives misrepresented the costs and sometimes lied about the company?s identity. We are […]
Pennsylvania Facial Recognition Systems Integrate to Widen Search for Criminals
In Pennsylvania, authorized law enforcement can access the state?s Justice Network (JNET) to access critical information for investigations. The JNET Facial Recognition System allows about 500 of JNET?s 40,000 users ? individuals from local, state and federal law enforcement ? to narrow down a search for a suspect by comparing images from sources like surveillance […]
Biometric Company Launches Pilot Program for Palm Bay, FL Police Department
NXT-ID, Inc., (OTCQB: NXTD), a biometrics company focused on the growing m-commerce market announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, 3D-ID, LLC commenced a pilot program with the Palm Bay, FL Police Department to evaluate its 3D FaceMatch? biometric facial recognition identification systems. The identification management systems leverage unique and patented FaceMatch? 3D technology that precisely […]
Research Methods Cctv
2012/17: Increasing the use of CCTV: should Australia install more closed circuit TV cameras? What they said… ‘You can still be murdered, raped, bashed, robbed or harassed or whatever and you know walking in front of the CCTV camera doesn’t necessarily protect you from that’ David Vaile, the vice-chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation ‘For the most part, it is for our safety…In public you are in full view. You should expect to be filmed’ Charlie Bezzina, a former Victoria Police homicide squad detective The issue at a glance Following the alleged abduction and murder of Brunswick resident, Jill Meagher, in September 2012, the Victorian Government has ordered an audit of Melbourne’s CCTV network. Melbourne lord mayor, Robert Doyle, has stated, ‘I would be very happy to look at putting more (cameras) in.’ Similarly, Western Australia’s Police Union and the State Opposition have called for more security cameras in Perth’s nightlife areas amid concerns there are big blind spots in the CCTV network. Western Australian Police Minister, Liza Harvey, has claimed that the cameras, which played a role in the arrest of the alleged killer of former Perth resident, Jill Meagher, were ‘an effective tool in both preventing and solving crimes’. Though proposals for increased CCTV surveillance appear to have general public support, there are those who are concerned about the privacy implications of a proliferation of CCTV cameras. There have also been significant doubts raised about the efficacy of this form of surveillance as a crime prevention measure. […]
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DHS Takes Control Of Arizona Border Blimp
A 208-foot long white blimp has been floating two miles above Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, using radar continuously to scan the area along the border, looking for low-flying aircraft drug smugglers use to bring drugs into the United States. The sensors on board can detect activity in distances of up to 230 miles. The blimp, […]
Video Surveillance, Facial Recognition Technology, and the Law
Omnipresent video surveillance and facial recognition technology have staked a new frontier in the American legal system, as local communities, state officials, and even the U.S. Supreme Court consider questions about surveillance, technology, and privacy. Ohio law enforcement has been using facial recognition technology to match driver?s license photos and surveillance footage for months, without […]