There are several ways to setup a FREE website with email for your small sized - 10 or fewer employees - law enforcement agency. This setup provides most of the items the public expects from their public officials, namely a website and email contact. In this brief tutorial I am going to detail one way of getting your agency online. This is a model I have moved to for my personal sites and, so far, it’s worked out pretty well.
Police in the Australian state of Victoria were able to arrest a burglar based on an image submitted by the homeowner. The image was taken by the fast acting homeowner on his mobile phone. Using the image, and iFace - facial automated composition and editing - a facial recognition program, police were able to identify Simon Hansford from its database. Since its inception in 2006, dozens of criminals have been caught after iFace was able to match them to images in its database.
I think this is a knee-jerk reaction,” PhantomAlert CEO Joe Scott told ComputerWorld. “PhantomALERT is a 100% legal service. If they really understood what we are doing and aim to achieve they would actually support us. (( Source - Huffington Post. ))
In Minority Report precognitive’s used special, extra sensory, abilities to see future events and lead police to future violent criminals before they were able to act. While conjuring up images of Minority Report style police units, predictive policing has no rooms filled with ‘pre-cogs’ lying in a pool of water sensing what crimes are about to happen. Instead, predictive policing uses data analysis, much like the business world or insurance industry. Predictive policing is actively being pursued by an increasing number of law enforcement agencies as it is seen as a way of reducing crime and lowering agency costs.
There were a couple of news articles that piqued my attention today as I browsed about. Both articles are about Texas police agencies and their adoption of new police video systems for getting data before officers arrive on scene or for gathering information in-car as events unfold.
Via - KGO-Tv SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco is about to get a high-tech police operations center to help fight crime. It will be only one of a few such state of the art facilities in the country. ABC7 News got an exclusive look at the operation called BRICC: the Bay Area Regional Crime Center.
Via - 6abc.com EVESHAM TWP., N.J. - February 24, 2011 (WPVI) — A former elementary school teacher wanted for numerous burglaries was arrested earlier this week thanks, in part, to a new piece of technology.
