Click Here to Nominate Now – Only Two Weeks Left! The 2013 second annual ConnectedCOPS Awards are underway. We’re looking for the best of the best in eight categories worldwide. We invite you to send in your nominations for the very best police work in social media. With the 2013 awards we’ve added two...
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In an effort to gage interest in whether a SMILE Conference® would be viable in the United Kingdom, LAwS Communications would like to get your input in the following survey. It’ll only take a couple minutes Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world’s leading questionnaire tool.
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At last fall’s International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference, IBM previewed its new i2 Intelligent Law Enforcement offering. Billed as “the convenor of the ecosystem for public safety,” this new software solution promised to help law enforcement organizations bring down silos with Big Data capabilities that combined tactical lead generation, predictive policing...
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There’s good news and bad in the new Facebook policies, and much left to be seen Facebook has made some significant changes to privacy settings. They’re rolling them out to all users over the next few days and weeks, and some of it is good news! But let’s start with the bad news. Facebook...
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Several police agencies have held tweet-a-thons or tweet-the-beat events to create awareness of police work call attention to issues. A few of us have been talking a while about holding an event where police agencies everywhere could have whatever model of tweet-a-thon they want but on the same day and time in an effort...
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Or are the cops just cooler there? JK! Just got word from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office (one of my favorite Social Media savvy agencies) about their holiday video. They just released it this week and already have tens of thousands of views. Of course, it was Tampa Police who blew us away with...
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Just weeks into launching its Electronic Communications Triage Unit (eComm) the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) is learning new ways to prevent crime. By monitoring social networks, now 24/7, the LASD has gotten ahead of hundreds of pay parties openly advertising illegal drugs and underage drinking. Captain Mike Parker commands the Sheriff’s Headquarters...
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Great creativity by Tampa Police as they join the “Call Me Maybe” video craze. If this doesn’t get them a bit more connected with their community, I don’t know what would. I’m going to have to send a few ConnectedCOPS ball caps to Tampa, I think. The last time I recall a Police Department...
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IBM is working towards becoming the “convener of the eco-system of public safety” Today at the IACP Conference in San Diego, The IBM team including the i2 Group announced a new initiative to promote the higher level of intelligence analysis – calling it the IBM i2 Intelligent Law Enforcement platform. But, it’s not just...
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