Public Safety and The Internet

Given today's challenging environment, law enforcement and public safety agencies need to find ways to share information and resources more effectively, to engage with the communities that they serve, and to identify and restrict the opportunities for criminality which a world with greater mobility and fewer borders than ever before presents. Broadband infrastructure and technologies can aid public safety and emergency response activities in a community.

The Internet and networking technologies are creating new means for law enforcement to address and solve some of the issues that they face in the efficient execution of their various roles. The power of the Internet and related networking technologies to fundamentally change the way that public safety work is carried out — and the delivery of law enforcement services to the public — is considerable.

Provided is a link to a white paper from Cisco Systems on this subject: (click to read)