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• SA cops reach out to public with 'Web app'

  In what it claims is a first for an Australian police force, South Australia Police has launched a mobile-optimised Web site -- dubbed a "Web app" by SAPOL -- offering integrated news, social media features and alerts.

• Beware of social network predators: Police

  A senior detective has warned parents to teach their children about the dangers lurking in social networks.

• Go Cards used for police work

  Queensland police are tracking public transport passenger journeys using electronic fare Go Cards to investigate crime.

• Bill tripled for Queensland Police phone taps

  The Queensland Government has pledged to $44.5 million to the state departments of Police as well as Justice and Attorney-General for the implementation of a permanent telecommunications interception capability as part of the government's 2010-2011 Budget.

• Queensland Police hope web cameras will ease traffic jams

  Queensland Police will deploy more than 50 web cameras in the state's South East in a bid to make traffic flow more freely.

• Tassie govt spends $575k to recognise traffic crooks

  The Tasmanian Government will spend $400,000 to purchase five Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras for the state's police.

• Ballmer: The cloud will bring new apps to law enforcement

  A move to the cloud will enable new kinds of applications that public safety and law enforcement agencies can use to do their jobs better, Microsoft’s CEO said during its annual Worldwide Public Safety Symposium on Wednesday.

• Queensland police, justice share data

  The Queensland Government is building a new high-speed network to improve access to data and information sharing across its police, judicial and corrective services.

• Cisco's UCS powers Taser police video service

  Cisco Systems' UCS data-center architecture provides the backbone of a service from Taser International that collects and stores video from police cameras.

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  Number plate recognition technology on trial

  South Australian police will begin trialling new camera technology which enables moving police cars to detect stolen vehicles in busy traffic.

• Victoria Police use Twitter to report on road blitz

  Last night, the Victoria Police force began a three-day blitz on dangerous driving, Operation Ardent, and for the first time used microblogging site Twitter to enforce the safe driving message among young drivers.

• Victoria Police win technology award for bushfire response

  Victoria Police has won an award for being the first organisation to use Geographical Information System (GIS) to transmit critical information directly from a fire affected area to a command post.

• ID in 90 seconds: CrimTrac's database goes mobile

  State police in collaboration with CrimTrac are trialling mobile identification of persons of interest by using mobile networks to transmit information and photos to a device within 90 seconds of a fingerprint scan.

• German police: Two-factor authentication failing

  A two-factor authentication system widely used in Germany is failing to stop cybercriminals from draining bank accounts, a top German law enforcement official said Tuesday.

• Thieves snatch school’s laptops in nighttime robbery

  Forty two laptops including Macs and Lenovos that were going to be used by Year 11 and 12 students from a western Sydney school were stolen over the weekend, leaving students potentially stranded when the next term starts in a couple of weeks.