Police officers began to carry on a breast smartphones instead of video cameras

In the middle of July, 2019 it became known that police officers began to use smartphones, wearable on a breast, instead of traditional video cameras.

According to the ZDNet edition, the staff of office of the sheriff in the District of Kit-Karson (the State of California, the USA) fixes on a uniform the Galaxy S9 phones adapted for work with Visual Labs company and also using FirstNet technology and the cloud storage.

Police officers began to carry on a breast smartphones instead of video cameras

FirstNet is a high-speed wireless interoperable network for services of quick response. It is started in 2018, but conceived even after terrorist attacks in the USA in 2001. FirstNet builds AT&T, however all telecommunication operators in the USA will use network to render services to state institutions.

The sheriff of the district Tom Ridnour says that consolidation of technologies of Samsung, FirstNet and Visual Labs allows law enforcement agencies to save money.

It is cheaper as we do not need to buy breast cameras. We all the same received phones — he noted.

According to Ridnur, advantages of the new project became expense reduction on training of officers and reduction of physical activity by a police uniform.

According to the operating officer of Visual Labs Alexander Popof, use of FirstNet network helps police officers to obtain continuously the evidence during the service.

Smartphones are small computers with connection to network. With their help police officers can carry one item of equipment less — he emphasized. Visual Labs installs on the software phones and service for data storage in a cloud.

Thanks to FirstNet network the Samsung company will start the B2B-division concentrated on clients in the field of public security.^[1]

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