DHS Releases Grant Guidance for 2010
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano released the fiscal 2010 grant application guidance kits for 13 DHS grant programs totaling more than $2.7 billion. The money provides state, local and tribal governments and private-sector entities funding to strengthen the nation’s ability to prevent, protect, respond to and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies.
From Emergency Management News, December 08, 2009
Law enforcement trends to watch in 2010 and beyond
“In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, they may find…” that policing has transformed far more in the fifteen years between 2010 and 2525 than in several preceding generations. The most significant trend will continue to be the application of technology to law enforcement, manifest in nearly every facet of policing. Technology will help solve crimes, prevent crimes, and facilitate crimes that haven’t yet been conceived. Evolving human factors will equally impact law enforcement as the nation’s population ages, immigration increases and minority group fertility rates skyrocket.
From Police News, December 07, 2009
DOT Awards Funds to Dallas, San Diego for New Technology Initiative to Fight Congestion
In an historic step towards ending gridlock in urban areas across the country, the U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the Dallas and San Diego areas will receive $14 million as the nation's first demonstration sites for new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies that help fight congestion and enhance travel. The Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) initiative will help the Dallas and San Diego metro areas become "living laboratories" in the fight against congestion.
From ForConstructionPros.com, December 07, 2009
Connecticut launches interactive traffic map
Connecticut's drivers can now route their commutes and other trips by checking out a new online map showing the latest road crashes, construction alerts and other obstacles clogging traffic on state highways.
From Newstimes.com, December 06, 2009
US corrections operation to implement NICE video surveillance solutions in four additional sites
NICE Systems has received follow-on orders from a large-scale US corrections operation for its NiceVision IP-capable video surveillance solution. NICE received the NiceVision orders for four additional sites of a large-scale US corrections operation. Including these sites, NICE security solutions will now be deployed in a total of 56 of the operation's corrections sites around the country.
From SourceSecurity.com, December 04, 2009
Video surveillance to boost security on Moscow-Petersburg rail line
A railway linking Moscow and St. Petersburg will be equipped with a video monitoring system within five years, a spokesman for the Russian Railways company said on Thursday.
The statement came after a recent terrorist attack on the Nevsky Express train, which took the lives of 26 people and left more than 90 injured. The train was en route from the Russian capital to St. Petersburg.
From RIA Novosti, December 03, 2009
Vail talks video surveillance
Vail Police Chief Dwight Henninger hopes the town can use camera surveillance to help the police department during criminal investigations, pointing out that camera footage of the Nov. 7 shooting at the Sandbar in West Vail will be critical to the prosecution of that case.
From Vail Daily News, December 01, 2009
Oklahoma lawmaker Jim Wilson wants dashboard videos open to the public
Legislation will be introduced next year that makes video recordings of dashboard cameras in Oklahoma Highway Patrol cruisers open to the public, a state senator said Monday.
"Our public safety officers are public servants who work at the will of the public, so why shouldn’t the public have access to video of them doing their jobs?” asked Sen. Jim Wilson.
From NewsOK, December 01, 2009
Lancaster's crime-fighting plane puts focus on civil rights
A plan to patrol Lancaster with an airplane that would record the movements of people on the ground has stoked the concerns of civil liberty advocates while being embraced by some residents who say they would support any means to crack down on crime.
From Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2009
Traffic cameras coming to Ballard (WA)
The Seattle Department of Transportation will nearly double the number of cameras providing real-time information to the city and the public by adding 57 traffic cameras this year.
From Ballard News Tribune, November 24, 2009
