GV - Law Enforcement

Latest Facial Recognition Solutions, The Eyes Have It

Sep 28,2011
If you get pulled over while driving through Plymouth County, Mass More...

Network Recorders Enable CCTV Video To Be Seen

Oct 24,2011
The first closed-circuit television (CCTV) system was used in 1942 for observation of V-2 rocket launches at Test Stand VII in Peenemunde, Germany. “Vericon,” the first commercial CCTV, became available in the United States More...

More Police Trying On Wearable Cameras

Mar 5,2012
Acceptance of body-worn video and audio recorders is rapidly growing among police and emergency service departments while manufacturers are pointing to steady advances in their technology and ease of use. More...

From Live Scenarios to Virtual Reality, Police/Military Look to Simulators for Training

Mar 26,2012
Simulators are a standard training tool used in law enforcement, the military and medicine, and those systems work for the U More...

Video Drives Traffic Management Systems

Mar 21,2011
At Houston TranStar, staff monitor traffic on the region’s freeways using speed-data sensors and more than 800 cameras More...

Digital CCTV’s Vigilant Stare

Jan 3,2012
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Hidden Cameras: Secret Witnesses Out of Eyeshot

Jan 23,2012
Whether it is a group of illegal narcotics manufacturers stealing agricultural supplies to make their products, or a team of identity thieves embedded within a government agency, law officers are increasingly using covert More...

Community Cameras Supplement PD Systems

Jan 20,2011
Police departments nationwide are looking to integrate privately owned closed circuit televisions (CCTVs) used for security into the video surveillance networks of police forces. More...

Getting the Most from Mobile Video Recorders

Feb 7,2011
The growing trend for police vehicle camera systems is to upgrade those systems for higher resolution, optimized data transmission and bandwidth conservation. More...

A Covert Video Primer

Feb 28,2011
In the November 2010 edition of Government Video, editor JJ Smith detailed some of the cool covert video recoding equipment available today (“Covert Video Records Lawbreakers, Spies”). More...

Ex-LA PD Cameraman Shoots ‘Officer Involved Shooting’ Videos

Feb 14,2011
Setting up the camera angle, writer, producer, director and cameraman, Larry Fugate sets up a shot on the set of an officer involved shooting video More...

Oakland PD Invites Public to Training

Feb 14,2011
Seeking to repair relations with the public it serves, the Oakland, Calif More...

Where Community-Access TV Fits in

Feb 1,2012
When disaster strikes locally, viewers turn to the local media for help More...

Disc Copying System Reduces Discord Over Evidence Sharing

Aug 22,2011
When digital evidence is part of a criminal case, law enforcement agencies have to supply multiple copies of that evidence—including video—to both the prosecution and defense, and not confuse the original evidence with the More...

Police Looking to UAVs for Specific Missions

Apr 30,2012
The U More...