The Socionical Crowd Sourcing app, which has been developed in conjunction with the London School of Economics, enables visitors to the City to download real-time information about the Force and vital information as a result of a serious or catastrophic incident in the city. The app is now available to download from the app...
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The UK government is currently undertaking a review of the probation service and is encouraging probation trusts to be innovative in responding to fundamental change. Jason Davies’s (@b00tstrapper) post shows that there’s plenty of innovation in the current probation service. SWM Probation Trust’s adventures in mapping, phone apps and pecha kucha. It’s Wednesday afternoon,...
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Stop and search has always been a friction point between police and the communities they serve. Indeed several commentators cited it as a potential contributory factor to last year’s riots. The New York equivalent “Stop-and-Frisk” has proved equally contentious with almost 700,000 people questioned on the city’s streets last year. The vast majority were...
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One of the downsides about any form of new technology is that it is inevitably expensive and attractive to thieves. Over the years, burglars have focused on Video Recorders, DVD players and, now, Flatscreen TVs. Car thieves have moved from car radios via CD players on to SatNavs, although even those are no longer...
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A revolutionary life-saving application for smart phones (iPhone and Android) has given dusty CPR training new wheels: smart CPR. What would you do if you were a Fire Chief having lunch while someone nearby needed CPR and you didn’t know it? If you’re Chief Richard Price of the San Ramon Valley Fire Department, you’d...
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The Collier County (FL) Sheriffs Office rolled out its new iPhone app CCSO2go last month. At first blush this may not seem like that big of a deal, after all at the time of this blog post there are 377,555 apps available for the iPhone. But, the new CCSO2go iPhone app is a big deal...
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PoliceOne.com is one of my favorite law enforcement websites for police news, blogs, and product reviews. PoliceOne, which is also a Smile Conference sponsor has recently come out with an iPhone app. Their iPhone app is a very nice compliment to their website. The PoliceOne iPhone app opens up to a main or home...
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The Dallas Police Department is hoping to sustain the seven year trend of decreasing crime in the city with the iWatch Dallas program, rolled out on October 4th . It’s a crime tipping program designed to appeal to young people and working parents who might be reluctant use Crime Stoppers tipping programs. Tips to...
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Being a retired police officer and and iPhone aficionado I always find myself thinking how apps could have helped me do my job better as a cop. As a police officer you are constantly presented with new situations to have to investigate and hence the need for information. There are also times when communicating...
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