Police Satellite Communications News & Articles

• When disaster hits: Improving communications interoperability (eBook)

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  Communication problems, especially reliability and interoperability, are widespread and complicate preparedness, training and response

• GPS may be an endangered species

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  A new cell phone network could jam GPS signals

• A powerful weapon for police in the post-9/11 world

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  The Terrorist Screening Center and the TSDB enable law enforcement officers to find and apprehend terrorists in the U.S.

• SkyTerra offers satellite telephone/radio with push-to-talk capability

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  MSAT-G2 designed for rural, remote, disaster-prone areas

• How to buy satellite communications products

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  By Tim Dees When radio, landline and cellular communications are unreliable, satellite conduits may be your only option. Every user's situation is a little different, so it's difficult to talk abou...

• Fla. deputy uses Google Earth to make arrest

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  The satellite pictures helped locate the suspect

• License plate frame antenna keeps communication discrete

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  Mobile Mark antenna is also a multi-band unit

• How to buy police communications interoperability products

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  By David R. Lukeson Interoperable radio communications allows police, fire, EMS and other first responders to talk to one another during an emergency across agencies and across boundary lines. Achi...

• IWCE: Panel discusses future of public safety radio

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  Broadband is coming, but experts disagree on when and how

• Run, but you can’t hide: The StarChase Pursuit Management System

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  New technology tracks vehicles without high-speed chase

• New tech gives Va. officers crucial info quickly

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  By Kristin Davis Virginian-PilotNORFOLK, Va. — The victim speaks only Spanish. The officer who responds knows only English. A dispatcher scrambles to find an available, on-duty officer fluent in bo...

• Colo. sheriff's office tests remote-controlled mini copter for search operations

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  By Wyatt Haupt Jr. Grand Junction Free PressGRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — In a move that could revolutionize the way search and rescue missions are conducted, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office is performi...

• N.H. police see safety, savings in 'LoJack for people'

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  By Derrick Perkins Union LeaderSALEM, N.H. — Finding a missing Alzheimer's patient or an autistic child is a nightmare for law enforcement and caregivers alike, but now the same technology used to ...

• Chase ends when OnStar halts stolen SUV

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  By Tom Krisher Associated PressDETROIT — When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepare...

• IACP Products: 'Mesh' technology connecting public safety departments

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  An example of how Firetide is being used to connect departments. Click the image for a larger photo. (Firetide Photo)Communications interoperability was a major focus of this year’s IACP conference...

• Experts address hot communications topics at APCO

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  D-Block, 700 MHz, LTE, and mobile broadband take center stageIt’s a fairly good bet that the estimated 5,000 people arriving at the annual meeting of the Association of Public-Safety Communications...

• Putting a CAP on disparate emergency communications systems

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  By Aviv Siegel, CTO, AtHocOriginally published in the August 2008 issue of 9-1-1 MagazineThe single most important asset for decision makers and first responders is the ability to access informatio...

• Despite technology, first responders operating on different frequencies

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  By Ed Timms and Tanya Eiserer Dallas Morning NewsDALLAS — Despite unprecedented advances in technology, law enforcement agencies still struggle to communicate with each other during high-speed chas...

• Homeland Security kills LE spy satellite program

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  By Josh Meyer Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON, D.C. — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has decided to kill a controversial Bush administration program to use U.S. spy satellites to collect ...

• Police continue to use GPS to track suspects despite murky law

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  Associated PressMADISON, Wis. — Investigators were tipped that habitual criminal Bernardo Garcia was back to making and dealing methamphetamine in 2005 but they needed more evidence to nail him.So ...

• Feds ready to build "virtual fence" along border

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  By Arthur H. Rotstein Associated PressTUCSON, Ariz. — Federal officials plan to start construction within weeks on a new "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border that they say could almost comp...

• Inaugural security plans go high-tech

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  By Kevin Johnson USA TodayWASHINGTON — Record crowds expected for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration are prompting unique law enforcement strategies, including an unprecedented deployment ...

• NYPD explores cell phone jamming during terror attacks, hostage-takings

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  Editor's Note: Police1 has collected the thoughts of several people in law enforcement with the purpose of kick-starting a dialog about how the events in Mumbai provide an opportunity to consider t...

• Mass. officers use GPS to find kidnapped girl

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  By George Barnes and Danielle Williamson Telegram & GazetteATHOL, Mass. — Using technology more commonly seen in television crime dramas, an Athol police officer and a deputy chief in the town's Fi...

• Cop or bad guy? Help them know from the air.

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  One of the greatest strengths of law enforcement aircraft is the ability to quickly, effectively, and thoroughly search large areas. Ground units will often pursue a suspect into backyards or woode...

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