{"id":392,"date":"2015-12-23T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/industry\/2015\/12\/23\/keeping-our-officers-safe-accountable-and-connected\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:40:01","slug":"keeping-our-officers-safe-accountable-and-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/government\/2015\/12\/23\/keeping-our-officers-safe-accountable-and-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping our officers safe, accountable, and connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With exciting innovations in police technology, from body-worn cameras to smart weapons and digital evidence management platforms, police departments are quickly discovering new ways to protect their officers, engage their communities, and streamline their daily tasks. These new tools are significant steps forward independently, but when synchronized to create the connected police officer each benefit reaches its full potential. Connected police officers are safer, more efficient public servants who promote trust and transparency within their communities.<\/p>\n<p>The connect police officer uses an automatic and seamless network of devices to assist in daily operations. Body-worn and dashboard cameras, smartphones, and smart weapons communicate instantly with each other while staying connected with command center leaders for better situational awareness and smarter decision making.<\/p>\n<p>Connected police officers don\u2019t just benefit the officers though, they extend into their community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Officers<\/strong> are safe and transparent due to enhanced data collection and improved communications.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Command<\/strong> minimizes the expense and efforts of managing, collecting, and sharing masses of data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prosecutors<\/strong> get a holistic view of incidents for less court-time, more plea deals, and faster convictions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Citizens<\/strong> can trust in the increased transparency and objectivity of video evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sergeant Bill Kuykendall, a connected police officer with the Buda Police Department in Buda, Texas, found that the holistic perspective of dashboard and body-worn cameras allowed him the opportunity to annotate and expound on key details, \u201cWe point out details on camera and annotate what we\u2019re seeing\u2014you can\u2019t do that with photos, and it\u2019s difficult to capture all those details in written reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The integrated technology of the connected officer is linked together by trigger activations\u2014actions, such as turning on the car\u2019s light bar, that automatically activate each piece. This way, officers don\u2019t have to waste precious time manually engaging each element and can focus on the task at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New technologies have created the connected police officer, safer, streamlined officers who promote greater trust and transparency within their communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"post_tag":[],"content-type":[],"coauthors":[66],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Keeping our officers safe, accountable, and connected<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New technologies have created the connected police officer, safer, streamlined officers who promote greater trust and transparency within their communities.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/government\/2015\/12\/23\/keeping-our-officers-safe-accountable-and-connected\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keeping our officers safe, accountable, and connected\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New technologies have created the connected police officer, safer, streamlined officers who promote greater trust and transparency within their communities.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/government\/2015\/12\/23\/keeping-our-officers-safe-accountable-and-connected\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Microsoft Industry Blogs - 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