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AWS selects 13 startups to innovate public safety solutions through the GovTech Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

Pictured: The AWS 2023 Justice and Public Safety GovTech Accelerator cohort at Amazon’s HQ2 for Week Zero, a three-day onboarding event to kick off the accelerator. The selected startups are focused on a wide range of solutions for first responders, emergency services, corrections, and other public safety agencies.

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How Public Safety Is Driving the Deployment of Mission-Critical Operations Centers

State Tech Magazine

The ability to analyze public safety data in real time has become critical to the success of law enforcement agencies. In a Verizon survey, 55 percent of first responders said the use of data for situational awareness has been one of the strongest areas of technological improvement in public safety over the past 20 years.

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Driving people-centered digital transformation in public safety with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Colonel Lamar Davis of the Louisiana State Police (LSP), recently summed up the law enforcement landscape, saying, “When you look at crime today, it’s not just a public safety or law enforcement problem—it’s a social problem.” It’s our job to bring the needed resiliency through technology.”

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Harnessing data for safer communities

American City & Country

The ability to gather, store and analyze almost unlimited amounts of data has transformed almost every aspect of society, including law enforcement. While the possibilities of using data to improve safety and ensure justice are seemingly endless, harnessing this power does not come without its challenges.

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Forrester study commissioned by AWS estimates an ROI of 33% from data integration

AWS Public Sector Blog

A single community went from 28 fatal overdoses in January through March of 2019 to zero in April and May as a result of the coordinated actions of law enforcement, public safety, health services, and community leaders. In Virginia, data integration helped battle opioid addiction.

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Advancements in police technology have fundamentally changed how departments operate

American City & Country

How would police communicate and coordinate without computers? This is technology that today’s law enforcement officers can take for granted, but it wasn’t always that way. Increasingly powerful analytics like these are playing a critical role in helping law enforcement effectively perform their jobs. What about radios?

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A Resilience Charter

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In this context, ‘crisis’ refers to those situations in which extraordinary measures are required in order to ensure public safety or prevent escalating damage and losses. Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. The state 3.1