John Chigos, CEO of PlateSmart Technologies is reaching out to ALPR industry players in a call-to-action, stressing the importance of industry experts coming together to discuss ALPR Best Practices.

A Call to Action for the Automatic License Plate Recognition Industry

By John Chigos, Founder, Chairman & CEO at PlateSmartTechnologies, Inc. I founded PlateSmart about 15 years ago to advance automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) as a crime-fighting tool. We were the first LPR...
Willem Van Spronsen was an anarchist and anti-fascist who was shot and killed by Tacoma Police officers while trying to set fire to a propane tank with incendiary devices during an attack at an ICE detention center in Tacoma on Saturday, July 13. (Courtesy of Twitter)

Dead ICE Facility Attacker Wrote ‘I am Antifa’ Manifesto Before Assault

July 12, 2019 – In Breaking News – Fox News The 69-year-old armed man killed by Washington state police as he attacked a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center Saturday sent a manifesto to friends the day before...
Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison visited USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) underway in the Coral Sea July 12, during Talisman Sabre. (Courtesy of thee U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Burke)

Ships Converge for Talisman Sabre ’19 Bilateral, Biennial War Games

Seventeen ships from the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan sailed together in formation for a massive photo exercise July 10, to signify the beginning of naval maneuvers as part of...
An image from legal documents released Thursday, July 11, 2019, in the terrorism case involving Fishers residents Moyad and Mahde Dannon. (Courtesy of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana)

IN Brothers Indicted on Terrorism & Firearms Charges for ISIS (Video)

A federal grand jury has charged brothers Moyad Dannon, 21, and Mahde Dannon, 20, both of Fishers, Indiana, with multiple firearms charges and one count of attempting to provide material support...
Your Entire Operation at Your Fingertips Access the security command center from any web browser and get a complete view of your security operation. From officer location, shifts to critical events, the commander center enables you to manage all sites from one central location be it locally or globally.

Trackforce Launches Powerful, Out-of-the-Box Security Command Center

Trackforce™, a global leader in security workforce management solutions, and a new competitor in the 2019 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program, has launched its new Command Center, which virtually removes the...
DHS announced Tuesday that arrests at the southwest border plummeted in June after the Mexican government agreed early in the month to dramatically step up its own immigration enforcement efforts, under the threat of punishing US tariffs. (Courtesy of CBP)

Border Arrests Drop 28% Following US-Mexico Partnership (Multi-Video)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data for June indicates a 28% drop in enforcement actions along the Southwest Border since May, from 144,278 to...
Terrese Colston (Courtesy of the Polk County Sheriff's Office)

Carjacker Who Shot FL Police Officer Gets 30 Years in Federal Prison

Terrese Colston, 29, of Polk County, Florida, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for carjacking, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possessing...
Hundreds of mourners, made up of cops, firefighters and Jon Stewart, turned out to say a final goodbye to Luis Alvarez, an NYPD detective who spent his final days desperately fighting to restore vital funds to 9/11 responders. (Courtesy of Twitter)

Hero Down: Luis Alvarez, 9/11 First Responder Laid to Rest (Multi-Video)

July 3, 2019 – In Breaking News – USA TODAY A single bagpipe played "Amazing Grace" as police officers and firefighters joined regular New Yorkers gathered to say goodbye Wednesday to Luis Alvarez, a...
BriefCam is the industry’s leading provider of Video Synopsis® and Deep Learning solutions for rapid video review and search, smart alerting and quantitative video insights. By transforming raw video into actionable intelligence, BriefCam dramatically shortens the time-to-target for security threats while increasing safety and optimizing operations.

How Video Helps Overcome the Top 3 Police Force Challenges (Multi-Video)

By Lizzi Goldmeir Optimize investigations. Conserve budgets (and resources). Work smarter. If you ask police chiefs around the country what their three biggest challenges are, there’s a good bet that the aforementioned is...
Quickly and easily identify chemical hazards at the site of interest with the self-contained FLIR Griffin™ G510 portable gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC-MS). It complements presumptive detectors used during emergency missions, by enabling responders to analyze all phases of matter (liquid, solid, vapor) so they can take immediate action.

FLIR Adds Key Features to Griffin G510 Portable Chemical Detector

FLIR Systems, a recognized Winner in the ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winner, for Three Consecutive Years, have made available multiple new enhancements to its Griffin™ G510 portable GC-MS chemical detector. The Griffin™ G510,...