If you’ve ever seen a police officer examining a handheld phone, you might have thought you were seeing someone check their text messages or even the weather the way so many of us do. What you may not know is that many officers use handheld apps on agency-issued smartphones for everything from access to records and dispatch info, to other more specialized information. Back in 2019, Police1 wrote that mobile apps were changing the face of [...]
Public safety software supports first responders across the country in keeping your community safer, facilitating the dispatch of appropriate personnel to emergencies, and keeping first responders (including police, fire, and EMS personnel) aware of dangers they may face. This makes public safety software, such as the computer-aided dispatch and records management software Caliber Public Safety provides, immensely important. But did you know that there is an entire week devoted to celebrating those who use public safety [...]
Public safety software includes any software used to facilitate keeping people safe, managing law enforcement records, dispatching law enforcement, and facilitating a variety of first-responder tasks and functions. But public safety software is no longer limited to computer aided dispatch centers. Today, the computer aided dispatch center can be in your pocket… and if you’re a law enforcement officer, there is public safety software that can travel with you everywhere you go. The transition of public [...]