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The navigation links to your above will take you to a variety of locations and provide you with additional information about the author, the book police technology, the subject of police technology and perhaps the course. For instructors, use the navigation link to "POLICE TECHNOLOGY - Instructor Resources" and you will find the items listed in the Instructor's Manual.

For students, the links above correspond to the four sections of the Police Technology. At each destination you will find additional hyperlinks to web-based resources that help explain many of the concepts in Police Technology. Some of these are multimedia presentations like slide shows, short videos or graphic representations. I encourage you to have fun and poke around

On the link page to "Student Resources" you will find the "Participation Log" and links designed to provide you with general guidance on university level class work. And, there is also a hyperlink to the "chat room" were I hold virtual office hours each Tuesday from 0530 to 0630 GMT. Well, your first assignment is to figure out why that 0530 to 0630 GMT on Tuesday's is actually 2130 to 2230 on Mondays, in California! There is also a link to the "Criminal Justice Forum." Feel free to post your questions and discussion there....I will check in every so often and add my two cents.

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New technologies also bring new questions about policy. As was stated in the beginning most of police work is about gathering information. Therefore, it is not surprising that most of the technology being introduced into law enforcement enables the collection, organization and analysis of information. Moreover, since the police and technology are focused on information, the primary community concerns usually center around issues of privacy, and the Fourth Amendment.

Technology and application of technology is constantly changing. Very shortly I will be working on a revision to Police Technolgy. You should have input. What do you need more of? Less? What did I miss? What is important to you? Your comments and suggestion will help improve the next version of Police Technology.

On April 25, 2006, Hi Tech Criminal Justice Online launched a revised website for the text book, Police Technology (Prentice Hall, July 2004). According to CEO Raymond E. Foster the book is used in over fifty universities and colleges throughout the United States and is under consideration for adoption in at least sixty others. At the same time the book was in production the original website was also being developed. However, the initial website was parked as a sub-domain under Hi Tech Criminal Justice Online’s primary website.

Throughout the last 18 months the content of the website has grown as has the use by students and professors. The companion website offers students additional articles, resources, cases studies and web-based explanations for the key terms within the text. Additionally, behind a password protected site professors can find supplemental instructional material such as example syllabi, PowerPoint presentations for each chapter and hyperlinks to relevant videos, journals and web-based resources.

Foster said, “The tremendous success of the book and the website led us to secure an original domain for the book’s companion site and to expand the core content.” In addition to securing an original domain, Foster noted that the five additional PowerPoint lectures, new cases studies and unique student activities have been added to the revised site. Moreover, the site has been completely redesigned based upon student, professor and practitioner input. “The web enables us to be much more responsive than many other traditional text book publishers. Based on student and professor feedback we are constantly researching, updating and publishing.”

You can visit the new website at www.police-technology.net

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