Public Safety
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The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land. -
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will evaluate a $13 million rental agreement for the Sheriff’s Office to obtain new radios and accompanying equipment. The previous lease dates to 2015 and expired last year.
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While the city has used drones before, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced.
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Pilot precedes U.S. Coast Guard’s final guidance of electronic card readers to validate Transportation Worker Identification Credentials.
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Cellular network congestion following the earthquake validates the need for a national broadband network, officials say.
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The county’s jurisdictions also can share 911 call information, which improves situational awareness.
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The FCC deadline to convert LMR functionality to narrowbanding is quickly approaching, and it’s estimated that only one-third of the nation’s jurisdictions have converted.
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Alabama lawyer’s story of recovery is laced with lessons for disaster preparedness.
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Project RED determines how best to route cellular 911 calls — initially all calls went through the state Highway Patrol.
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Detection systems and new guidelines to encourage lightning safety for the public may help protect responders.
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St. Clair County, Mich., is testing the Regional Interoperability Collaboration Network to improve situational awareness.
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National Level Exercise 2011 tested states’ abilities to respond to a catastrophic earthquake while creating links between all levels of government and beyond.
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Many emergency managersare avoiding using social media for all the wrong reasons.
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Project has potential to increase agencies’ reach, officer safety and dispatcher efficiency, officials say.
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Sandy Springs, Ga., Police Department uses open architecture to integrate solutions from various vendors to improve public safety.
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In its desire to cut spending, Congress took a hammer to state and local homeland security programs in fiscal year 2011.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ prepared text messages deliver public health information to cell phones and save emergency managers time.
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The Fort Worth/Tarrant County Joint Emergency Operations Center integrates existing technologies into a unique radio-over-IP package.
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Successful enhanced 911 system implementation takes a team approach.
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Sensors that detect heat, smoke and chemicals light the safest evacuation route out of a building.
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Rhode Island is establishing a cyber-disruption response team to help restore critical IT systems following a disaster.
