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Va Police Chiefs Assn signs up for online training at PoliceCommunity.Net
The Response Network, of Hanover, NH, a provider of online training programs for law enforcement and public safety professionals, has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with The Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police (VACP) to develop customized in-service training courses that will be available to all Virginia law enforcement personnel on the company’s PoliceCommunity.net online training portal.
GSN 2011 Awards Program opens for entries on April 26
Government Security News has announced that its 2011 Homeland Security Awards Program will officially open for business and start accepting entries in the program’s 45 awards categories on Tuesday, April 26.
Obama seeks three percent hike in discretionary budget at DHS
Despite official murmurings a few months ago that the fiscal year 2011 budget request for DHS might decline slightly, the budget package unveiled on February 1 actually shows a three percent increase in “discretionary spending” by DHS in 2011, versus the prior year, and modest growth, at approximately the predicted rate of inflation, in the outer years.
If suspended or denied, federal firearm licensees or applicants can submit arguments in an ‘informal setting,’ says ATF
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, known as the ATF, has proposed a new federal rule that intends to clarify that an applicant for a firearms license whose application has been denied -- or who faces suspension of an existing license or the imposition of a civil fine -- has a right to a hearing and can anticipate “an informal setting” and the opportunity “to submit facts, arguments, offers of settlement, or proposals of adjustment for review or consideration.”
FEMA awards ambulance support contract worth nearly half a billion dollars
Ambulance
team with AMR
FEMA has awarded a follow-on contract that could be worth almost half a billion dollars to American Medical Response Ambulance Service, Inc. (AMR) to provide ground and air ambulances, medical personnel and operational support in 11 Western states and 16 Central states.
TSA expects heaviest Super Bowl traveler volume on Feb. 6
Indianapolis International
The Transportation Security Administration is set to deal with tens of thousands more passengers travelling through Indianapolis International Airport before and after Super Bowl XLVI with additional screening lanes.
DHS and ICE busy before Super Bowl securing stadium and IP rights
Napolitano at Super Bowl XLVI
As their boss touted this year’s Super Bowl as one of the most secure in history, U.S. customs agents were busy extending protections beyond the physical venue and into intellectual property on the Web, seizing Websites selling fake National Football League gear and busting apparel and souvenir counterfeiters.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on Feb. 1 a partnership with the NFL to expand the agency’s “If you see something, say something” public awareness campaign.
Recent terror cases move forward in Denver and Tampa
Federal courtroom
Federal cases against two men charged with terror exploits moved forward on Feb. 2, with formal charges against one and an initial court appearance by another.
The Florida man accused of planning attacks on public and private facilities in the Tampa area was formally indicted on Feb. 2 on charges of trying to use weapons of mass destruction. Sami Osmakac was indicted on the weapons of mass destruction charges, as well as possession of an unregistered machine gun.
New judicial center in Denver to install AMAG Technology's Symmetry system
Justice building being
constructed in Denver
The Ralph Carr Judicial Center in Denver, CO, which is on track for completion in the Spring of 2013, has selected AMAG Technology’s Symmetry Homeland V7 Security Management System.
Conway cameras doing time ‘Down Under’
UK-based manufacturer Conway Security Products has supplied a large number of its custodial corner-mounted cameras as part of a refurbishment and updating project at a high-security correctional facility in New South Wales, Australia.
