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ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA today announced their latest product release, California Law Enforcement Officer Resource Center. Designed to support busy law enforcement officers in California, this continually updated service makes it easier than ever for these professionals to pinpoint the relevant details impacting their work. Available via laptop or desktop computer, smartphone, MDT, or tablet device, the resource center delivers content-rich service to provide access to more of the targeted, pertinent information necessary for law enforcement officers.
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Competition within the State It's commonplace for entry-level applicants to be involved in several recruitment processes (Woska 2006). [...] having multiple agencies conduct duplicitous and costly processes of screening the same applicants to include extensive background investigations, medical tests and polygraph exams.
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DALLAS, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A trusted advisor to many of the world's elite police and law enforcement agencies, Entrust, Inc., hosted California law enforcement officials and technology officers Tuesday morning to discuss identity-based solutions that strengthen security and promote efficiency. The downtown Los Angeles event outlined specific security strategies -- notably strong authentication and smartcard credentialing -- that are proven in real-world environments across the globe.
Today's law enforcement agencies are tasked with not only securing citizens, but also protecting the digital identities of employees, staff, officers and officials," said President and CEO Bill Conner. "To allow these agencies to focus on their No. 1 objective, it's important to leverage identity-base...
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SAN FRANCISCO - Police in a northern California town thought they had an open-and-shut case when they seized more than two pounds of marijuana from a couple's home, even though doctors authorized the pair to use pot for medical purposes.
San Francisco police thought the same with a father-and-son team they suspected of abusing the state's medical marijuana law by allegedly operating an illegal trafficking operation.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Citing the need to provide adequate funding for public safety in California's state parks and beaches, the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) announced its support of Prop. 21 - the Nov. 2 statewide ballot initiative that will provide stable and adequate funding for state parks. CSLEA represents more than 7,000 public safety professionals within 19 affiliate groups.
Public safety resources in our state parks are at an all time low because of a three decade long history of underfunding," said Alan Barcelona, president of CSLEA. "Statewide, state parks lack the lifeguard, ranger and public safety staff to adequately preserve, protect and maintain our parks and beaches. Prop. 21 is the only solution that will ensure our st...
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[...] the metabolic pathways involved in anaerobic metabolism (glycolysis and lactic acid fermentation) that generate energy during high intensity, low duration tasks, such as sprinting, are not exercised at peak aerobic exercise levels.4 For an officer arm and upper body strength are critical. The Risk of Total Shutdown Hitting the fatigue threshold is not the same as just being tired; it's the experience of sudden exhaustion to the point that you cannot physically function. Because the body is required to produce energy so quickly to feed the insatiable FT muscles, it correspondingly builds up a waste product faster than it can expel it.
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Technological advances propelled by military missions within the theaters of war in the Middle East, coupled with the federal government's impetus to find new and more effective ways to guard against radical Islamic terrorist attacks within our own borders, have accelerated the growth and sophistication level of surveillance capability. Ethical Challenges of the Future Will Not be Easy During 2008, an Office of Naval Research grant was awarded to three educators to study issues of ethics related to autonomous military systems (Lin, Bekey, Abney, 2008).\n In an editorial published in the Orange County Register, an editor discusses the United States government's plan to collect DNA specimens from all non-citizens detained by the authorities for any reason and from all people arrested for...
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The " eye-in-the-sky" technology is a present reality, with digital video cameras that are standard equipment in a variety of cell-phones, red- light camera systems, license plate readers and of course, public surveillance cameras.2 A notable trend identified by prominent future researchers, is the manner in which computers are becoming part of the fabric of our landscape; dominating the economy and society in the process. Some cities, worked with the local chamber of commerce or downtown business districts, while others enlisted the assistance of select neighborhood watch groups, City Planning Commissioners, Park Service Commissions and/ or City Councils.31 It is widely accepted that a law enforcement agency is only as successful as the support it receives from the public it serves.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Ill., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Since its deployment in August of 2010, the Garden Grove, CA Police Department's mobile Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system has already produced some impressive successes, including the recovery of three stolen vehicles. The dual-camera, lightbar- mounted system, provided by Federal Signal Corporation's PIPS Technology, records every plate encountered, and then uses sophisticated algorithms to translate those plate images into text for instantaneous cross-referencing against a "wanted vehicle" database. Officers are then immediately alerted via their laptops that the vehicle is of interest. All data is subsequently recorded to a SuperRex(TM) III processor located in the trunk of the patrol car.
David Young, Investigator, Garde...
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According to Gregory Trevorton, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Rand Corporation, the legacy of U.S. intelligence from the Cold War is an organization of collection sources or "stovepipes," which may have been appropriate when the individual intelligence agencies had a common focus, (i.e. the Soviet Union) but is lacking when faced with today's multiple threats, inundation of information from a variety of sources and of varying quality, and accountability to an ever-growing assortment of consumers (Trevorton, 2005, p7). According to John H. Locher III of the Project on Nation Security Reform, the classification system as it exists today promotes classification over sharing for two basic reasons: "Few penalties exist for classifying documents that need not be protected," [and] "to decide...