Articles tagged with "Law Enforcement"

Ultra-Light Weight, Buoyant Body Armor

ArmoRight: buoyancy vest meets lightweight body armor

March 25, 2008 Designed and engineered by a retired Navy SEAL, ArmoRight™ is a lightweight body armor system for use in marine environments that combines protection from from handgun, rifle and shrapnel threats with neutral or positive buoyancy capabilities. (read more...)

Tags: Law Enforcement, Military , Safety , Terrorism , Weapons , Wearable
AcuNetx HawkEye law enforcement system

HawkEye drug-recognition tool aids law enforcement

January 5, 2008 The AcuNetx HawkEye law enforcement system, which magnifies and records tell-tale signs of drug intoxication in a suspect’s pupils, has been awarded two separate patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The tool is now being used by highway patrol officers and at sobriety checkpoints across the U.S.A. (read more...)

Tags: Drugs, Law Enforcement , Safety
Javier Rodriguez Molina

Communications “Gizmo” to aid emergency response

December 19, 2007 It may look like just another remote-controlled toy truck, but this "Gizmo" has the potential to save lives in disaster response situations. Javier Rodriguez Molina, a 24 year old electrical engineering graduate student and programmer analyst at the UC San Diego's California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), is designing an advanced mobile, wireless communications machine that can venture into environments too dangerous for humans and collect and transmit critical information to emergency personnel. It is hoped that the design platform - which is will not be limited to its current toy-truck guise - can provide real-time assistance in emergency situations such as terrorist attacks, building collapses or hurricanes. (read more...)

Tags: Communications, Disasters , Emergencies , Law Enforcement , Military , research watch , Wireless
Lotus Exige police car
Photo courtesy of James Pearso

Lotus Exige S Police Car boosts road safety

November 2, 2007 Police in East Sussex have added a Lotus Exige S to their arsenal as part of a campaign to promote road safety. The fully liveried Lotus police car has proved an ideal ice-breaker in opening up lines of communication and educating drivers in the high-risk group 17-25 age group. (read more...)

Tags: Law Enforcement, Lotus , police car
ShotSpotter dispatch desk

Gunshot location system boosts city surveillance

October 12, 2007 When battling gun related crime, police are often faced with the problem of being unable to pinpoint the direction or proximity of overheard gunfire. In order to combat this issue over a wide area, the ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System uses acoustical triangulation to accurately detect incidences of gunfire and combines this with an integrated camera network to provide law enforcement with instant situation reports. After its celebrated role in capturing the Columbus sniper of 2003/2004, 20 major US cities, most recently Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have adopted the ShotSpotter GLS as a tool to combat gun related crime and as a deterrent against future crimes. (read more...)

Tags: Law Enforcement
New Rolls Royce jet-engine testing facility

Rolls Royce open new outdoor jet engine testing facility

October 15, 2007 Rolls-Royce has opened a $42 million outdoor jet engine testing facility in Mississipi. One of only three of its kind in the world, the site at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center will be used to test development and prototype jet engines for performance and noise, as well as validate their safety systems. (read more...)

Tags: Aeroplanes, Law Enforcement , Rolls Royce
ICD-1300 projector

Project-a-Phone image capture and display system for handheld devices

October 11, 2007 Project-a-Phone has launched the ICD-1300, an image capture and display system which allows users to screen a live display of their mobile device onto a computer via a USB cable, where content can then be recorded, projected on a screen, or uploaded to the Internet. (read more...)

Tags: Consumer Electronics, iPhone , Law Enforcement , Mobile Phone , Portable Video , Projectors
Video Investigator screen

Intellivid Video intelligence software streamlines in-store security

September 19, 2007 We’ve all seen the seemingly ubiquitous eye in the sky cameras watching us from store ceilings and most of us have probably wondered if anyone actually monitors those things. In an effort to improve the efficiency of such surveillance, Intellivid has developed a Computer Aided Tracking (CAT) tool that incorporates a newly patented adjacency algorithm. The technology uses sophisticated video analytics to streamline video surveillance, giving the ability to seamlessly track in-store movements and create complete end-to-end footage. (read more...)

Tags: Digital Video, Law Enforcement , retail technology , Security , Surveillance

Spying via mobile phone

August 13, 2007 A new software technology available only to law enforcement officers allows officers to listen to room conversations even when a phone is switched off. Known as "Phone Dead", the technology requires just ten seconds physical access to the phone to configure it and subsequent management can be achieved via SMS. (read more...)

Tags: Law Enforcement, Mobile Phone
LED Incapacitator

LED Incapacitator is enough to make you sick

August 10, 2007 A real life “light saber” that can subdue anyone in its path? This new type of non-lethal weapon comes in the form of a flashlight that totally incapacitates whoever looks into it. The LED (Light Emitting Diode) Incapacitator emits bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths that cause disorientation, temporary blindness, nausea, and even vomiting. (read more...)

Tags: Law Enforcement, Military , Taser
TASER and iRobot are collaborating on a TASER-shooting robot

TASER-armed robots keep police out of harm's way

June 3, 2007 Love them or hate them, TASER stun guns have become an essential and effective part of law enforcement armory. Perhaps their main drawback has been that even the long-range wireless shotgun-mounted TASER XREP puts a police officer within 30 feet of a potentially dangerous suspect before they're in range. Now, a new partnership between TASER and iRobot will see the construction of TASER-wielding robots that can be sent in to incapacitate violent suspects without ever exposing police officers to the risk of harm. What's more, TASER has released their Remote Area Denial (TRAD) system, an unmanned device that operates in a network to identify and incapacitate intruders in secured areas. It all points towards an interesting future with embedded moral implications; how long will it be until suspects are told "you have 15 seconds to comply?" (read more...)

Tags: Law Enforcement, Remote Control , Robot , Taser
The Taser X-26.

New study examines physiological impacts of taser use

May 18, 2007 The taser: a convenient, effective non-lethal way of incapacitating a person, or a potential killer? Amidst claims of misuse, abuse and taser-related deaths, a new study has been undertaken to document the short and medium term physiological effects this painful and common law enforcement tool can have on subjects. Kudos to those who volunteered to be shocked; those five seconds would have felt like an eternity. (read more...)

Tags: Law Enforcement, Taser

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