Law Enforcement | First Responders
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.
OzVision
Alan Avidan, President, indicates that OzVision is pushing the forefront of hosted video services for dealers and users. The company’s government market includes military bases, government facilities, and national monuments such as the Washington Monument, the State of Liberty and Ford’s Theater. Avidan calls for dealers and central services to join in the hosted video movement, which he describes as the future of the industry.
VideoIQ
Scott Schnell, CEO, describes Video IQ’s next generation of video surveillance, where each of its high-definition cameras has video analytics plus half a year of storage with the camera itself, thus eliminating the high cost of storage and networking. According to Schnell, VideoIQ’s cameras with high-definition sensors can track up to 24 objects simultaneously and have 3X the field of view of conventional high-definition cameras with analytics.
T3 Motion
Gary Joubert, VP of Sales and Marketing, reports that T3 provides electric vehicles for law enforcement that are used in almost every police department in the U.S., as well as in government agencies around the world. Other markets for the made-in-the-USA T3 series include the military, general transport and the private security business. Recent improvements have been well received, and business is great!
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.
CBP rescue beacon helps save two in south Texas
Rescue beacon
CBP agents helped save two people trying to traverse the south Texas scrubland after the couple sounded a rescue beacon near an internal border checkpoint.
U.S. Border Patrol said agents assigned to the Kingsville Station, near Sarita, TX saved the lives of two illegal aliens who activated a rescue beacon after becoming lost in the brush on Feb. 4.
GPO provided secure credentials for FBI at Super Bowl in Indianapolis
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) used security design and printing techniques to produce the FBI’s special events credential that was used at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, IN, by public safety personnel.
HSI Nogales special agent pleads guilty to leaking classified documents
Nogales POE
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent pleaded guilty to all 21 counts accusing her of leaking sensitive government information to relatives involved in drug trafficking.
According to a statement by the FBI on Jan. 6, Jovana Deas, 33, of Rio Rico, AZ, admitted to abusing her position as an HSI special agent to illegally obtain and disseminate government documents classified as "Official Use Only."
First ICE public advocate on enforcement issues begins job
ICE Washington D.C. headquarters
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s first public advocate -- the point of contact at the organization for the public, including individuals, public advocacy and community groups with questions about immigration enforcement policies -- introduced himself on the DHS Blog on Feb. 7
