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Future-ready law enforcement: Bedfordshire Police embraces digital agility to deliver modern policing services

AWS Public Sector Blog

Based on cloud technology, the model is easily replicable by other law-enforcement organizations. Like most law-enforcement organizations, Bedfordshire Police, in the UK, faces multiplying crime threats and limited resources to fight them. We now hold an annual Dragons Den/Shark Tank -style event.

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Tagging governance using AWS Organizations in the public sector

AWS Public Sector Blog

Reactive tagging enforcement through scheduled jobs and resource termination scripts, rather than native AWS event-driven controls, creates unnecessary operational complexity. The power of De Morgans laws in SCP design The core challenge was implementing complex logical conditions within SCPs while meeting strict security requirements.

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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. This event provides an opportunity for Accelerator participants to showcase their cloud-powered solutions to justice and public safety agency leaders.

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Leadership, Change and Respect for Our Foundational Law

ASPA National Weblog

Look beyond recent events and prepare for a change in government with the new administration. Thank goodness law and policy guides our institutional tradition in transitioning leadership. But so are the laws that created wastelands of human misery after those industries were downsized. Many are angry at being ignored.

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AWS transforms DC police department’s data processing system by utilizing Spark on Lambda

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington DC (DC-MPD) is one of the ten largest police agencies in the United States, serving as the primary law enforcement entity for the District of Columbia. The data processing workflow leverages several AWS services to manage and process data based on specific conditions and events.

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AWS launches first GovTech Accelerator to drive innovation in government

AWS Public Sector Blog

Courts and other justice and public safety organizations are targeted by a rising number of cyber events , as the digitization of paper workloads increases the amount of sensitive data requiring secure storage. The startups will be notified by Wednesday, August 9, 2023, and the program will kick off with an in-person event in Fall 2023.

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How the City of Canton worked with Wi-Fiber to build a safer and more connected community

AWS Public Sector Blog

The National Football League (NFL) Hall of Fame induction and associated events, hosted in Canton, can effectively double or triple the city’s population for a full week.