The Oakland, Calif., City Council has voted 6-1 to move ahead with a controversial city surveillance center (the Domain Awareness Center), which would allow police and city officials to continuously monitor video cameras, gunshot detectors and license-plate readers across the city.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations and El Salvador’s National Police signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) November 14 to further define and strengthen the relationship between the agencies, especially regarding the Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit, an ICE press release states.
Rep. Jeff Miller, a Florida Republican, wants to force TSA to turn over the money left at airport security checkpoints to nonprofit agencies that provide travel assistance to military troops and their families.
A group of 12 lower Manhattan residents and one shop owner are suing the police, claiming that the NYPD's security plan for the World Trade Center will leave the area in "fortresslike isolation."
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Shrink, comprised of shoplifting, employee or supplier fraud, organized retail crime and administrative errors, cost the retail industry more than $112 billion globally last year, according to the 2012-2013 Global Retail Theft Barometer, and represented 1.4 percent of retail sales, on average.
This Veterans Day, We Celebrate the Men and Women Who Serve the United States.
November 11, 2013
As we honor the men and women who protect the United States, Security magazine would like to take a moment to reflect on those who have served, who are on active duty, and who have died for their country.
Contactless payment methods can be used to pay for things even when they are nearly a meter away from a payment terminal, according to research from a team at Surrey University in the UK.
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