More Advances in Crime Detection and Prevention

An interesting article in the January 2014 edition of The Police Chief Magazine outlines various technological advances that are helping police forces in their fight against crime. For example, new crime lights have different preset wavelengths to detect hair, fibers, and bodily fluids and to allow the faster processing of a crime scene. Advances in thermal imaging allow police to detect fugitives or missing children in minutes, as opposed to hours.

There have also been significant advances in data mining and criminal investigation records to identify criminals in disparate systems in order to connect crimes that would otherwise not be linked.

And in the fight against terrorism, advanced laser technology allows police forces to detect the chemical makeup of a substance in seconds with an accuracy rate of 95 per cent.

For the full text of the article, please see http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/ma....