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- My name is Chad Wallace.
I served in law enforcement for nearly two decades.
In that time, I was a patrol officer, a detective,
and I was involved with administration and tactical
operations.
The areas were focused on are resilient command and control
communications, situational awareness, and digital policing.
Let me show you what's possible.
The best way to do that is to head outside to the vehicle.
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(car engine roaring)
This is the Microsoft Tactical Vehicle.
Don't get hung up on the form factor.
It's about the small footprint of the command and control
ecosystem that's inside.
When we talk about resilient command and control,
we think about persistent communications,
reliable power, to operate even in an aster environments.
We have great partners that blend cellular satellite and
broadband along with mesh networking
to provide persistent connectivity.
Next, what is reliable power provide?
(car door opens)
Long-term power,
operational autonomy, and insights into vehicle conditions.
(car door opens)
When we talk about communications,
we have a solution that can allow you to use the existing
software and hardware that you already have, so that you can
communicate and share data across organizations all from a
single application.
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We talk about command and control at the frontline.
I think about the tools that I used to use in the field.
Out of the back of an SUV, we would use a paper map,
a whiteboard and a radio.
The good news is those were reliable,
the bad news is they're really difficult
to use in a dynamic situation.
Instead with this ecosystem,
we can see where our responders are in real time
and on multiple axes,
we can communicate and share information
and access to cutting edge cloud capabilities
onsite in aster environments.
The last piece of resilient command and control is that you
can visualize all of your responder locations and critical
information in one single pane of glass.
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- Hi, my name is Kirk Arthur. I look after Microsoft's
Worldwide Public Safety and Justice business.
I came to Microsoft from the United States Secret Service,
where I was a special agent for over 15 years.
And prior to that, I was a police officer.
I know the importance of having the right tools and skills
and capabilities for our first responders in the field.
That's why I'm excited to talk today about technology
and what it means and part of why we focus
on what we call Coordinated First Response
let's police, fire, ambulance services,
disaster response, entities nor organizations.
It's about having the right capability in technology
in the field during connected or disconnected environments
and meeting mission requirements.
That information little morsels are so critical to,
depending on where you're going to cover off and approach,
whether to home or structure fire,
any of that capability.
But then as you work through that incident,
think about command staff and law enforcement
and first responder executives what's happening on scene.
If you've taken the time to integrate your systems.
When I think about command and control solutions.
You have computer-aided dispatch, you have CCTV
you have other networks and capabilities.
If you can synthesize and harmonize that data across a
common platform and tell that story, you know, in real time,
adjust your tactical assets and resources as needed.
Now you're going to start to positively dictate the outcome
of an unplanned event, and that's where we want to be.
And that's why I'm excited about the work we're doing that
vehicle itself it could be a boat,
it could be an aircraft it's about the platform,
the capabilities, it has power, it has connectivity.
What can you do? What tools and resources
and solutions can you put in that vehicle at the edge,
in the field for your staff that they can access?
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- [Chad] Let's talk about situational awareness.
Think about times when I was on patrol
and I was forced to jump out of my car
to face rapidly evolving high stress situation.
And in that time I was forced to decide
between getting on the radio to provide clear communication
of where I was and what help I needed,
or keeping my attention focused squarely on that threat.
And oftentimes what happened was that communication on the
radio got garbled or not clear.
There's nothing worse than hearing 'I need help.'
but not knowing where that officer is.
Now that you understand that problem.
Here's some of the things that Microsoft and our partners
are trying to do to implement change
and help the frontline responder.
One example of what we've implemented
is a weapon drawn sensor that allows the dispatcher
to know exactly when an officer's drawn their weapon.
And then they can see the officer's body and dash cam so
that they can provide that situational awareness to the
officers that are responding as backup.
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The last point that we're going to talk about
is this concept of digital policing.
When I was a police officer, I had hundreds
if not thousands of these little spiral bound notebooks
full of information, intel names,
stuff that could be searchable technically,
but it never would actually go back and look
because they're buried in a closet somewhere.
We all know pen and paper has its drawbacks,
which is why Microsoft and our partners have built an app
by police. For police.
- [Narrator] With the digital notebook,
you can use features like voice to text,
take in statements and evidence on the go
automatic geolocation tagging,
and you can quickly search and share details
across your organization.
And unlike your traditional notebooks,
you can lose your device,
but still have all of your information
because it's, cloud-based
- [Chad] Microsoft's of first responders understands that
ease of use, privacy and security are essential to you and
your operations.
These are the same guiding principles that we use in
developing our products and services.
- We're really uniquely positioned to support the entire
mission side for any first responder organization through
our cloud capabilities, through our office products,
but also really through our partner ecosystem.
When you think about computer aid dispatch
records management solution,
all these things that exist in our ecosystem,
in our environment, sit on our technology.
And so technology as a partnership,
and that's what this is all about for us.
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