Exhibitors of Tasleeh Holding Group takes part in the Conclusion of World Police Summit 2022
Published on March 30, 2022
Abu Dhabi, UAE: The 4-day World Police Summit 2022 at Expo 2020 Dubai has arrived to its conclusion yesterday, and Tasleeh Holding Group with their partners in attendance expressed their appreciation for the successful commencement of the event bringing together our respected police officials, law enforcement, government authorities, and organizations operating in the field of … Continued
Training for Active Attack Events in Schools Requires a Nuanced Approach
Published on March 28, 2022
There have been hundreds of school shootings in the United States in the last 20 years, and a study by the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center suggests they’re largely preventable. There is no question of the need to train for this increasingly prevalent scenario, and not just for SWAT teams to react after the incident … Continued
New Research Suggests Perceived Familiarity with Officers Reduces Crime
Published on March 11, 2022
Coffee-with-a-cop, fitness challenges, and ride-alongs are some of the efforts made to bring law enforcement and citizens together in community-oriented policing. This increasingly common practice has been studied at length in the past four decades and is a central component of 21st Century Policing. While community policing isn’t new, emerging insights may change the … Continued
Women are making progress in policing, let’s pick up the pace.
Published on March 1, 2022
Every now and then a police headline gets positive attention, like when the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) selected Chief Mary Ann Viverette as their first female President, when Chief Heather Fong became the first Asian American woman to lead the police force in a major metropolitan city, when Zena Stevens became … Continued
Public Transport Simulation Training Technology for Situational Awareness
Published on February 18, 2022
Fights on the bus. Verbal harassment and assault. A bus window smashed with a hurled rock. These aren’t new problems, nor unique to Detroit and other major urban hubs. But the tight labor market and high-stress/high-stakes nature of operating public transit in a COVID context has helped the rest of the world sit up and … Continued
Human Factors Research: Using Sims to Increase Comfort and Reduce Confusion with “Autonomous” Vehicles
Published on February 11, 2022
No conversation about autonomous vehicles (AV) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) gets far without celebrating its potential for decreasing human misery. Estimates of traffic fatality reductions in the neighborhood of 75–80% are not uncommon (see, for example, Liu, P., Yang, R., and Xu, Z., “How safe is safe enough for self-driving vehicles?”, 2019, in the … Continued
“Buying the Bus is the Easy Part” EV/ZEB Bus Driver Training Challenges
Published on January 28, 2022
Given the realities of climate change and energy production, we are moving to a ZEB (zero-emissions bus) world sooner than later and not looking back. As more agencies explore what it will take to transition their fleet, they’re beginning to appreciate that, as one European transit agency recently put it, “buying the [zero-emissions] bus is … Continued