Information Sharing News
11/5/2008 10:11:50 AM
Improving Police Communications Across State and County Lines: The Piedmont Regional Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Pilot Project" (NCJ 223435, 2 pp.) describes new radio technology in the Danville, Virginia, police department and surrounding law enforcement agencies in Virginia and North Carolina.  Integrating this new technology with existing data communications equipment enables swift, direct communication within and across jurisdictions and solves issues of interoperability of different voice radio systems.

11/3/2008 10:58:49 AM
"Identifying and Measuring the Effects of Information Technologies on Law Enforcement Agencies" (NCJ 224515, 86 pp.) reflects an assessment of the COPS Office's Making Officer Redeployment Effective grantees; the report is relevant to all police departments. It focuses on the concepts of efficiency, effectiveness, and enabling, and how technologies contribute to achieving department goals. This guide is one of many resources that the COPS Office offers to law enforcement. It provides information on the effects of technologies typically acquired by law enforcement agencies. This guide, and many other similar knowledge-based resources can be downloaded from www.cops.usdoj.gov, or they can be ordered free of charge by calling the COPS Office Response Center at 800.421.6770 or by e-mail at askCOPSRC@usdoj.gov.

10/30/2008 1:13:56 PM
For the seventh year, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is sponsoring a Rural Law Enforcement Technology Institute. This technology institute will be held May 3-7, 2009 in Coronado (San Diego), California and is targeted/designed for the command staff/supervisory personnel of rural and small law enforcement agencies containing less than 50 sworn officers. Law enforcement personnel will learn about and discuss technology initiatives and issues affecting the rural and small law enforcement community. As part of the program, participants are required to give a brief (no more than 15 minutes) PowerPoint presentation on a technology issue that their department has encountered or is in the process of implementing. The deadline for submitting an application is February 1, 2009 and applications not received by that date and/or applications submitted without a CD-ROM containing the PowerPoint presentation will not be considered.  For more information please contact Scott Barker at ruletc1@aol.com.


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