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The current 9-1-1 system, on which the U.S. public relies every day, is more than 40 years old. It has largely served both citizens and law enforcement well, but, simply put, the telephony system that...
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Planning is well under way for the 2013 IACP Law Enforcement Information Management (LEIM) Training Conference and Technology Exposition, which will be held May 21–23 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The LEI...
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Today, many law enforcement officers have a limited ability to exchange images of wanted persons, missing children, and other critical information. For most agencies, these exchanges are now in radio ...
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Then the body of a 16-year-old babysitter was discovered weeks after her disappearance, Utah’s North Ogden Police Department got a break in its case.
Detectives enlisted help at the Real Time Cri...
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Information is the lifeblood of effective justice and public safety. The integration of justice, public safety, intelligence, and other governmental information transcends the day-to-day operational n...
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It’s coming and maybe faster than you think. There is nothing you can do to stop it. Depending on your point of view, on-officer or body-worn video (BWV) that integrates into daily operations and th...
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For many years, the IACP has been one of the leading public safety organizations in developing strategies and positions to improve public safety communications....
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In 1979, I helped with the first implementation of a computer-aided dispatch and records management system in Ottawa. Part of the project dealt with Canada’s first ever use of mobile data terminals....