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INDUS TRY NE WS COMPANY SPOTLIGHT Cooper Notification… a leading supplier of Life Safety and Mass Notification System solutions, announced that its customers now have the ability to send alerts directly from their Roam Secure Alert Network (RSANTM) to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and next generation Emergency Alert System. CMAS, part of FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, is the government's latest development to communicate to the public in an emergency by sending specially formatted text messages to all devices capable of receiving the alert in a specified geographic area. ELSAG North America… manufacturer of the Mobile Plate Hunter-900 (MPH-900) and Fixed Plate Hunter-900 (FPH-900) automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) systems, has developed the ELSAG Operations Center (EOC) iPhone app that puts the mission-supporting power of real-time ALPR data directly into the hands of law enforcement offcers. With the EOC iPhone App, offcers can access and update ALPR data without being in their MPH-900 vehicles or at their command centers. Icom America…. secured a multi-million dollar contract with Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to migrate the transit agency's radio system to an IDAS 6.25 kHz multi-site conventional voting solution, IDAS Blue. IDAS Blue equipment is extremely scalable and designed to meet the expansion needs of LA Metro well into the future. Kahr Firearms Group… is engaged in discussions with a development group representing Blooming Grove Township of Pike County Pennsylvania to open a new manufacturing site, and relocate the Kahr corporate offce from New York to Pennsylvania. Kahr's corporate offces are currently located in Rockland County in Pearl River, New York. KnowBe4… an Internet security awareness training frm, advises parents to take online threats seriously and quickly enact safety measures to limit risk for their children to safeguard personal information. Digital crime is on the rise—a type of crime in which your credit, fnancial security and good name are at risk. Identity theft is considered to be one of the fastest-growing crimes in America. Financial losses from household burglary on rise The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics announced the median dollar value of items and cash stolen during completed household burglaries increased 54 percent from 1994 to 2011. The median fnancial loss during completed burglaries in 1994 was $389 (adjusted for infation), compared with $600 in 2011. The average dollar loss in 2011 among households that lost $1 or more was about $2,120. Completed household burglary includes entry to a residence with force or entry without force by someone having no legal right to be on the premises. From 1994 to 2011, the rate of all burglaries (attempted and completed) decreased 56 percent, from a peak of 63.4 to 27.6 victimizations per 1,000 U.S. households. The number of burglaries experienced by U.S. households declined 47 percent, from about 6.4 million burglaries in 1994 to about 3.4 million in 2011. Among all completed burglaries, those involving the theft of an electronic device or household appliance increased from 28 percent in 2001 to 34 percent in 2011. From 1994 to 2011, the largest percentage of completed burglaries consistently involved the theft of personal items (such as clothing, furs, luggage, briefcases, jewelry, watches and keys) and appliances or electronics (such as TVs, DVD players, and portable electronic devices). Of completed burglaries reported, police were more likely to come when notifed, take a report, gather evidence, or promise an investigation or surveillance in 2011 compared to 1994. A similar percentage of reported burglaries resulted in an arrest in 1994 (eight percent) and 2011 (ten percent). From 1994 to 2011, the rate of completed burglary declined across most of the U.S. household characteristics that were examined. However, some types of U.S. households experienced a greater percentage decline in burglary than others. The greatest declines occurred among households in urban areas (down 63 percent), those headed by Hispanics (down 67 percent), and those with an income of $75,000 or more (down 74 percent). Read more at www.bjs.gov. DOT and U.S. Customs and Border Protection join forces against human traffcking U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan took part in a press conference with Delta Air Lines Chief Executive Offcer Richard Anderson, and JetBlue Airways www.officer.com August 2013 Law Enforcement Technology 51