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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The Montgomery County, Pa., Department of Public Safety provides near real-time emergency and traffic incident information online.
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The system allows Illinois officials to quickly track diseases and respond accordingly.
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Chasing4Life provides educational programs nationwide to encourage citizens to be personally prepared for emergencies and disasters.
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Public safety personnel are the first line of defense in the war on terror.
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The Dayville, Conn., Fire Company utilizes wireless tracking of firefighters to improve emergency response and after-incident accountability.
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For 20 years, college and university campuses have relied on blue-light call boxes to provide remote locations with access to police dispatch.
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The University of Southern California’s text message tip program guarantees user anonymity while promoting campus safety.
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A power outage at a Transportation Worker Identification Credential processing facility may require up to 410,000 cards to be replaced.
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Forty-six of 56 states and territories not ready for Dec. 31 deadline.
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When complete, the system will provide geographically targeted emergency alerts to cell phone users.
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Public safety agencies have flocked quickly to the short messaging service because of its security.
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Releasing information as quickly as possible is the new version of erring on the side of caution.
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Worst-case planning, resource planning, joint agency planning, among the lessons learned from seminal event in the Pacific Northwest.
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Random Hacks of Kindness attracts disaster relief experts and software engineers to innovate technology solutions.
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The Troy, N.Y., Police Department implemented computerized lockers that verify officers' identities and equipment access privileges.
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The Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology released two tools to aid residents and state and local officials in locating faults and estimating potential losses from earthquakes.
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Many residents are not safe and they don’t know it, Gerry Galloway says.
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Keeping lines of communication open during an emergency is critical. Satellites have been indispensable to that end in Missouri.
