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Sheriff Announces Citizen Police Academy/Law Enforcement Mini Academy
Monmouth County Sheriff's Office, (03/13/2018)
The Monmouth County Sheriff's Office inwards New Bailiwick of Jersey is asset a Citizen Police Academy/ Law Enforcement Mini Academy, which offers county residents ages xiv together with higher upward an chance to larn most the complex roles of modern-day law enforcement agencies. Speakers from municipal, county, dry soil together with federal agencies render insight into their roles inwards law enforcement, together with the role of citizens inwards assisting agencies inwards deterring crime. Enrollment inwards the class involves a six-week commitment to attend weekly classes. Sample topics include Internet Dangers together with Safety Measures, Distracted Driving together with the Importance of Fitness inwards Public Safety.
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Pittsburgh Council Backs Expanding Gunshot Detection System
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, (03/14/2019), Adam Smeltz
The Pittsburgh City Council has endorsed expanding the city's gunshot-detection organisation to accomplish all vi constabulary zones. Pittsburgh began a airplane pilot amongst the technology scientific discipline inwards Jan 2015 inwards 1 zone, together with the organisation has pointed to to a greater extent than than 2,200 gunfire incidents, according to the Department of Public Safety. Police get got made 48 arrests together with responders get got located 83 shooting victims. Under the planned expansion, the detection technology scientific discipline coverage would include most xviii foursquare miles citywide, targeting areas that trace of piece of occupation concern human relationship for the bulk of gun-related incidents.
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Delaware Pilot Program Will Replace Driver's License With a Smartphone App
BGR, (03/14/2018), Chris Mills
The Delaware Department of Motor Vehicles has launched a airplane pilot computer program to examine usage of electronic driver's licenses. The computer program volition include most 200 DMV employees together with stakeholders using the technology scientific discipline for the side past times side vi months. According to DMV, features of the mobile driver's license volition allow, for example, enhanced privacy for historic catamenia verification, ease of usage together with secure access.
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Long-Awaited 911 CAD System Goes Live
The Greenville Sun, (03/15/2018), Ken Little
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel 911 computer-aided dispatch organisation has been activated inwards Greenville, Tenn. Emergency telephone vociferation upward login information such every bit times together with addresses volition forthwith automatically live shared amongst the Greeneville Police Department. Dispatchers from 911 are learning how to input novel types of information such every bit how to run driver's license together with vehicle tag inquiries. The information volition together with hence live relayed to constabulary officers, eliminating an extra pace involving a constabulary dispatcher's communicating amongst 911.
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Analysis of Arkansas School Security Kicks Off
Arkansas Online, (03/19/2018), Cynthia Howell
The novel Arkansas School Safety Commission formed to brand recommendations on schoolhouse security held its start coming together inwards March. The panel is to position gaps inwards schoolhouse security together with how to brand schools safer. It is to submit its preliminary study past times July 1 together with a lastly study past times Nov. 1. The panel includes educators, members of law enforcement together with mental wellness professionals.
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Medford Police Report Increase inwards Use of Overdose Reversal Medication
News10, (03/18/2018), Genevieve Grippo
The constabulary subdivision inwards Medford, Ore., has seen an uptick inwards the demand to administer naloxone, which is used to opposite opioid overdoses. The constabulary subdivision began administering naloxone inwards 2015, together with since then, has deployed it 39 times, saving 37 lives. By this fourth dimension inwards 2017, constabulary officers had administered naloxone 3 times. So far this year, the drug has been used 8 times past times the department.
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State Police Roll Out System for Real-Time Sharing of OD Data
The Tribune-Democrat, (03/20/2018) John Finnerty
The Pennsylvania State Police get got launched an online tool for local constabulary together with troopers to submit information most drug overdoses. The Pennsylvania Overdose Information Network is a centralized repository to rail overdoses, naloxone administrations together with investigative drug information that may live used past times police, populace security together with wellness attention professionals to amend rail together with portion information related to opioid abuse. The tool volition aid constabulary coordinate efforts to fight drug trafficking together with aid position hot spots of unsafe drug activity.
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Area Police Participating inwards Aggressive Driving Initiative
The Tribune-Democrat, (03/20/2018), Ronald Fisher
Pennsylvania law enforcement agencies are participating inwards the Aggressive Driving Enforcement Initiative, a partnership comprised of municipal constabulary departments, Pennsylvania State Police, PennDOT, Highway Safety Network together with Buckle Up PA. State constabulary together with 235 municipal agencies volition send a targeted aggressive driving enforcement moving ridge from forthwith through Apr 29. The exertion is an endeavor to bring down vehicle accidents amongst a focus on speeding, move zones security violations together with lane changes.
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Nebraska Prison Unit for Veterans Helps Men Rediscover Honor together with Respect
Lincoln Journal Star, (03/18/2018), JoAnne Young
This article describes a 40-bed unit of measurement inwards the Nebraska State Penitentiary that is exclusively for armed forces veterans, together with how it is helping them.
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Drones Used to Deliver Drugs, Cellphones together with Other Contraband to Delano Prison, Documents Say
The Bakersfield Californian, (03/19/2018), Jason Kotowski
Authorities get got documented incidents where drones carrying contraband get got flown within the perimeter of Delano's Kern Valley State Prison, according to courtroom documents. Prison staff constitute a crashed drone inwards September together with cellphones inwards a pocketbook attached to the drone. In February, a prison theater staffer heard a dissonance that sounded similar a drone together with the audio of something hitting the dirt. Staff constitute bags containing cellphones, drugs together with hacksaw blades.
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Missouri Prisoners to Receive Smart Tablets
News-Press Now, (03/17/2018), Alex Flippin
Missouri plans to render smart tablets to prison theater inmates. About 33,000 tablets volition live donated to the Missouri Department of Corrections together with distributed to every inmate inwards the state. Inmates volition get got access to electronic mail that volition live monitored. They volition non get got access to the internet. The tablets volition live loaded amongst rehabilitative lessons together with programs.
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Alarming Spike inwards Panhandle Prison Deaths Reaches 'Point of Crisis'
Pensacola News Journal, (03/17/2018), Emma Kennedy
This article discusses inmate deaths together with possible contributing factors inwards closed to Florida prisons. The 3 major prisons inwards Escambia together with Santa Rosa counties - Century Correctional Institution, Santa Rosa Correctional Institution together with Blackwater River Correctional Institution - investigated a full of vi inmate deaths inwards 2016. That publish rose to 23 inwards 2017, together with hence far inwards 2018, in that location get got been 7 deaths at those 3 facilities.
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Introducing Inmates to Real Life via Virtual Reality
U.S. News & World Report, (03/15/2018), Catherine Kim
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is using virtual reality to seek to prepare closed to inmates for unloose from prison. The computer program is for people convicted every bit juveniles together with serving life sentences. The subdivision implemented programs such every bit classes, grooming together with virtual reality, which has been used to give inmates a glimpse of where they volition alive later release, such every bit a halfway house.
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8 Surprising Reasons People Have Gotten Arrested on Purpose
SFGate, (03/19/2018), Mark Abadi for Business Insider
This article discusses reasons why closed to people purposely acquire arrested inwards gild to become to jail, such every bit to obtain access to healthcare, smuggle inwards drugs to sell to inmates together with to quit smoking.
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Screening Wastewater Could Help Cities Track Opioid Use
Government Technology, (03/16/2018), J.B. Wogan
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 startup fellowship has devised a tool to mensurate the concentration of opioids inwards sewage to approximate levels of drug usage inwards dissimilar neighborhoods. Biobot Analytics was the winning startup inwards a pitch contest judged past times mayors at the South past times Southwest conference inwards Austin. Company officials tell cities tin collect wastewater samples together with analyze the information every 2 weeks, together with hence pinpoint where residents are abusing drugs together with whether consumption declines later policy interventions.
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