全球智库信息集成服务系统

Law Enforcement's Knowledge of IT and Its Dissemination Can Be Improved

• A wide range of efforts have been undertaken to disseminate technology information to law enforcement practitioners.
• A strong desire for help in technology use and management remains, implying needs for improvement in technology dissemination and education.

Sharing, Displaying, and Using Information Effectively Is a Major Challenge

• Enabling the sharing of information across law enforcement systems is a difficult problem — technically, organizationally, and commercially.
• Information-sharing efforts to date have had limited coverage and can be inconsistent with each other. Further, it is difficult for new developers and users to learn about all of the available information-sharing tools and technologies.
• Tools that display situational awareness information to law enforcement users at all levels are lacking.
• In addition to sharing information within law enforcement, there is a need to improve mechanisms for communicating with the public.

Additional Areas Need Research and Development

• There is a need to improve systems for monitoring and protecting the health of officers, including both physical and mental health.
• There is a need to improve security, privacy, and civil rights policies for using IT.
• There is a need to improve the affordability of law enforcement IT systems across their entire life cycle.
• There is an overarching need to identify promising practices that can leverage IT effectively to reduce crime. There is a need to improve IT, along with supporting training and policies, to help law enforcement respond to major incidents.
• There is a need to improve, and improve the use of, a range of deployable sensors. These include body-worn cameras, field biometrics, electronic evidence collection systems, and video surveillance systems.