As technology continues to advance, portable security devices have become an increasingly important and useful tool in executive protection and general security.
A bill introduced by the New York City Council will force every taxi and livery car in New York City to have a panic button that riders could use to hail police.
This line of IP-based “panic” solutions can be used to instantly and discreetly summon police or security via a wide variety of methods – IP phones, auto-calls to mobile devices and handheld radios, desktop pop-ups, base stations and software.
The Transportation Security Administration recommended that armed law enforcement officers be posted at airport security checkpoints and ticket counters during peak hours after a review of nearly 450 airports nationwide after last year’s fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport.
Mass notification has become a key element of campus safety and security. John Dellacontrada, assistant vice president of media relations at the University of Buffalo, New York, says he sought a “solution that we could deploy quickly and consistently, one that would work on desktop and mobile devices to get a message broadcast via various ways and that could work with our existing emergency public address system.”
