Technology In Law Enforcement

Technology In Law Enforcement

CJUS630-1003B-01
Law Enforcement Management
Communication and Technology
Phase 3 DB 1
Professor Newman
September 12, 2010
Sue Bell

Technology in Law Enforcement

Virtual training devices are “computer-generated, three-dimensional environments that engulfs the senses of sight, sound, and touch” as ascertained by Hormann, (1995). The officer interacts with the objects and environment of the life-like situation; there is no limit to the reality of these simulators. The limits are the object of the people who developed the software; so the environments and possibilities are endless. With the use of a computer it takes all the data from the monitors and processes the information for evaluating the user’s ability to accomplish that particular program. Law enforcement can use these programs in situations that could occur while on the job and see what their reflexes and reactions are for the specific encounter.

Law enforcement has been utilizing a simulation training process since the 1950s in such situations as; handcuffing, driving, and take downs. Training in this environment keeps the officers safe and allows them to evaluate what they could have done differently to get the outcome they would prefer. This is believed that officers that are trained to do certain things in a particular stressful situation will also do the same in real-life situations. (Bennett & Hess, 2007). Law enforcement personnel can utilize training in pursuit driving, firearms, crime scene processing, incident re-creations, and high-risk incident management. (Hormann, 1995).

AFIS devices are an automated fingerprint identification system that is actually a database of criminal identification of their fingerprints. The Motorola mobile biometrics technology has invented a biometric identification system (BIS) that can capture fingerprints in the field and compare it to the fingerprints within their database whether it be stored within the device or connected to a remote...