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OnSSI integration with Jemez
Technology improves perimeter
surveillance effectiveness
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lance management software. OnSSI’s
Ocularis IP security and surveillance
VMS platform increases security,
reduces operational costs, and
helps organizations move closer to
prevention. Ocularis delivers open
architecture, flexibility, and scalability
for a range of applications including
education, gaming, government,
healthcare, manufacturing, public
safety, transportation, and utilities.
OnSSI is headquartered in Pearl
River, New York and has representation
in over 100 countries. With its
acquisition of Germany-based VMS
company, SeeTec GmbH and the
launch of Ocularis 5, OnSSI continues
to drive global expansion and
technological innovations.
About Jemez Technology
Jemez Technology provides stateof-the-art
video analytic surveillance
technology delivering dramatically
enhanced perimeter and area
surveillance for critical asset and
infrastructure protection. Products
and services from Jemez Technology
leverage their patent-pending
Eagle-i Edge technology and the
AXIS Camera Application Platform
(ACAP).
UTEP professor, Immigration
Council question need for
additional ICE and Border Patrol
agents
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Heyman said the additional staffing
would increase the DHS budget
by more than $3.14 billion the
administration gets its 15,000 new
agents. In his report, he believes
that money could be better spent
elsewhere within DHS.
For example, he noted that U.S.
immigration courts are currently
understaffed. There are 300 judges
now, about 75 short of what’s currently
budgeted. These judges oversee
more than a half-million cases
and the average time for a case to be
resolved is more than 670 days. In
order to alleviate the backlog within
six years, Heyman said the government
would need more than 500
judges.
Heyman also noted that CBP’s Office
of Field Operations is not slated
to receive any additional agents,
even though the office is responsible
for inspecting trade and travel at
ports of entry. He noted an internal
DHS study showing that one additional
OFO agent would boost by
the national economy by millions
because the agent would help reduce
the amount of time needed to
inspect cargo containers.
While additional OFO agents also
run the same risk of corruption as
Taming the rising tide of
digital evidence
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an investigation involving large
amounts of crowdsourced data.
Analyzing evidence:
putting the pieces together
Collecting digital evidence is just the
beginning. Today, crime recreations
can be very complex thanks in large
part to all of the different sources
of digital evidence, which could include
hours of video footage from
different CCTV cameras, audio recordings,
body-worn footage, interview
room recordings and so on. At
some point, digital evidence has to
be sorted and put into context based
on time sequence and location. An
investigator can spend grueling
hours manually sifting through evidence
and trying to make sense of it.
Another problem investigators
need to contend with is the large
range of video and audio formats,
their colleagues along the border,
“attention to ports of entry represents
an important policy alternative
to repeating the misplaced pattern
of Border Patrol and border
wall expansion,” Heyman said.
codecs and proprietary players. An
investigator might obtain a copy of
a CCTV video and bring it back to
the station, only to realize it can’t be
played back without a proprietary
player or codec. A forensic technician
could spend days trying to locate
the needed codec.
Digital investigation and evidence
management technology solves this
problem by automatically creating a
working copy of the video that can
be played on any standard PC, tablet
or smartphone browser (while
retaining the original). Investigators
can easily visualize the sequence
of events from multiple angles, for
example by combining video from
different CCTV cameras in chronological
sequence, along with bodyworn
camera video, in-car video,
and 911 and radio recordings.
Visualization tools enable the investigator
to assemble and visualize
these media files in meaningful
ways, for example on maps or timelines.
Sharing evidence: the hard way
or the easy way
After digital evidence is collected
and analyzed, investigators then
need to package it up for the prosecution.
This is where the process
gets even more labor intensive and
time consuming. Today, all of the
different pieces of digital evidence
– interview recordings, audio recordings,
photographs, in-car video,
documents, etc. – are typically
copied onto CDs, DVDs, or thumb
drives and hand delivered to the DA.
With new digital investigation and
evidence management technology,
evidence can now be securely shared
electronically. This means investigators
can spend less time copying and
transporting evidence, and focus
more of their time and attention on
solving cases. A built in audit trail
even tracks chain of custody to ensure
the integrity and admissibility
of digital evidence for court.
Crime-solving in the 21st century:
taming the rising tide of digital
evidence
Police departments everywhere are
investing in digital policing initiatives
to better safeguard the public,
and this is having an unintended
consequence. As paper silos are replaced
by digital silos it’s creating a
rising tide of digital evidence that
needs to be collected, analyzed and
shared. Digital investigation and evidence
management technology can
help police departments tame this
rising tide of digital evidence and
improve case solvability, while also
saving time, money and taxpayer
dollars.
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companies to evaluate pending EU
cyber regulation
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(13 percent) and other regions (11
percent). To view the full survey results,
visit bit.ly/2p5kYkS.
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