Police Career - Linux Computer Systems in Law Enforcement
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| Kent Police have lowered the cost of running their major criminal
| investigations system by a factor of 90%...
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| Delivery of the first Linux systems to the West Yorkshire police
| force could see police forces throughout England and Wales
| unanimously switching to Linux desktops in a new pilot scheme...
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| The New South Wales Police department is currently undertaking a
| major upgrade to its information infrastructure, made necessary
| due to the increasing volume of data handled by the force, and
| they're switching to Linux systems to handle the load...
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| Scottish police forces have also developed a Linux-based system for
| ensuring that they comply with the Freedom of Information Act
| legislation...
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| Police in the city of Munich have switched 14,000 of their department
| computers from Microsoft's Windows operating system to Linux.
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http://www.article-zine.com/personal/self-improvement/police-career-linux-computer-systems-in-law-enforcement.html
Related:
Mail and Safari banned from the French gendarmerie
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| The Macs' future in the Gendarmerie has become ever gloomier since
| the very day this institution decided to get rid of Microsoft
| software. From now on the gendarmes will be using Linux-running
| PCs. Since you can't get a Mac without OSX, the fight can be
| considered as lost. At least, this was a place where Apple has
| been surviving longer than Microsoft...
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http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-01-27/#6362
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