Denver Police To Get Wireless Internet Service
Police officers across the Denver, Colo., area are expected to have wireless Internet service within a year. They will be able to download information such as missing children photos or criminal databases more quickly from their patrol cars or from headquarters.
The speed will be seven times as fast as the current speed of 9,600 bauds the officers use for their laptops.
When Denver police started testing the system, they simulated an emergency and found that information that used to take an hour to download now took only minutes.
The recently revived Ricochet is offering the service free to cities in return for using the city’s transmitters.
San Diego also subscribed to Ricochet service: The deal includes a maximum of 3,000 subscriptions for city workers, 500 modems, and 5 percent of Ricochet’s city-wide gross revenue.
Costs are kept low because Ricochet uses the unlicensed 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz airwave segments, the latter of which is used by microwaves and WiFi wireless gadgets.
Abstracted by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center(NLECTC) from Government Technology .
