TECHNOLOGY WITHIN MOBILE POLICING AND POLICE CARS.

technology within mobile policing and police cars.

Technology within mobile policing and police cars

Today the American policar technology has come a long way from whatit it used to be with the Model-T;s being used in the first decade of the 1900's To do its job, the police often resort to using technology to enhance their effectiveness. The appearance of fingerprints in the 1900's and crime lab in 1920 greatly enhanced the ability of police to solve crimes. The introduction of two-way radio and the widespread use of the car in 1930 multiplied by the performance of the police response to incidents.

But, as noted in the report, advances in technology for the police has often been slow and uneven. Quote of the Commission on Crime Prevention president in 1967 shows how the police at times lagged behind other sectors in reaping the benefits of technology: Police, crime laboratories and radio networks, made early use of technology, but most police departments could be equipped with 30 or 40 years ago, as well as they are today.

Crime Commission was established in 1960 in response to rapid growth in crime and urban disorder. The Commission supports the federal government funding for state and local criminal justice agencies to support their efforts. He called for what soon became the 911 system fielding emergency calls and encouraged institutions to purchase computers for the automation of its functions. But even when you start the help of hundreds of millions of dollars at the beginning of federal assistance, computerization has come slowly. Only in recent years, many agencies found the use of information technology greatly helpful. Examples include a fingerprint database, computer mapping of crime, as well as records management system are doing physical inventory and cataloging of evidence in the calculation of solvability factors. (Albert 1971).Police Technology and National Institute of Justice

Many of the technologies, the police calls and adapted from the commercial market. Cars, wireless, computers, and firearms are examples. But this report says that the police vital needs for specific technologies for which there is no readily available source. Examples of devices that use less than lethal force against unruly persons to stop fleeing vehicles, and to detect concealed weapons and contraband in a nonintrusive way.

Private sector technology developers and manufacturers do not want to meet many special needs of technology police. Fragmentation of the American market police, which has more than 17,000 agencies allows you to sell the police a lot of time and expensive. Liability issues also include the following: Will the manufacturer will be protected if its product is used so that the trauma of officials or citizens?

Job performance of special technology needs for law enforcement, state and local owned National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a criminal justice research arm of the Ministry of Justice. NIJ Office of Science and Technology promotes technological research and development, when he otherwise would not occur.

To determine the technological requirements, the Office of Science ...