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Grant Writing (US)
Webinar Series | Writing Winning Grant Proposals For A Regional Preventative Crime Gun Strategy
Learn about every stage of writing successful grant proposals – from finding the right grant for your organization to writing elements, and gaining support along the way.
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Webinar Series | Grant Writing Made Easy
Crime has a cost – both in what it costs society, but also in the dollars it takes to combat crime and bring the perpetrators to justice. One of the key areas law enforcement agencies and other justice-related organizations often seek funding for, is for the equipment and resources to identify, track, and build cases around gun-related crime.
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Webinar Series | Overlaying Digital Intelligence and Ballistics Technology to Enhance Investigations
This webinar will examine how information from each of these technologies can be turned into actionable intelligence and utilized by investigators to solve crime gun investigations.
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Webinar Series | Social Network Analysis
Find out how NIBIN leads can be used to gain insight into how violent incidents can be connected through a common gun and how to link incident data to the individuals involved in those crimes.
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Social Network Analysis
Join us on June 7 at 3 pm EST for our free Webinar presented in collaboration with The Justice Clearinghouse.
WatchDeveloping a Preventive Crime Gun Strategy
Webinar Series | Building a Crime Gun Intelligence Capability
Viewers will gain a greater understanding of the critical inter-organizational elements that are necessary for advancing a robust crime gun intelligence capacity capable of informing and influencing command decision-makers and investigators in the field.
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Webinar Series | Elevating Community Engagement and Relationships to Reduce Gun Violence
This webinar is presented in collaboration with the Justice Clearinghouse and The National Police Foundation.
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Webinar Series | The Wichita Crime Gun Intelligence Center: a Unique Law Enforcement University Partnership Approach
When implementing or enhancing an existing regional preventive crime gun strategy, partnerships are critical to the success of any initiative. In October, 2019 the Wichita Crime Gun Intelligence Center was launched, involving the first of its kind law enforcement-university partnership between the Wichita Police Department and Wichita State University (WSU).
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Webinar Series | An Innovative Strategy for Managing Firearm Related Casework
This webinar discusses not only the concept of using regional ballistic networks to handle and manage casework innovatively but, also shows how this strategy has been effectively incorporated by one police agency to a great amount of success.
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Webinar Series | Solving Gun Crimes – Extract and Analyze
This webinar highlights a number of key points in solving gun crimes and establishing Gun Crime Intelligence Centers.
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Webinar Series | Forensics at the Speed of Crime
How transformational forensics can expand the forensic firearm examiner’s toolbox so that relevant ballistics intelligence can be delivered within 24 to 72 hours of an incident.
WatchProsecution Strategies Utilizing Crime Gun Intelligence
Webinar Series | NIBIN-Led Policing: a Prosecutor’s Perspective
Collaboration between police investigators, forensic experts, and prosecutors is a key contributor to successful firearm-related crime investigations. This webinar looks at how to maximize intelligence for both the investigation and prosecution of cases once investigative leads have been identified through the ATF National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN). Presenters: Marisa McKeown, Supervising Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara, CA and Ron Nichols, Nichols Forensic Science Consulting, 25+ years’ experience as a firearm and toolmark examiner.
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Webinar Series | Developing a Prosecution Strategy Crime Gun
Brian Gray from the Schenectady County District Attorney's Office and Chief Will Morris from the East Baton Rouge District Attorney's Office Crime Strategies Unit described how they use ballistics intelligence to build their cases.
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Sale of Projectina to Heligan Group
Ultra Forensic Technology (UFT) today announces that it has agreed to sell its Projectina AG business (Projectina) to UK-based Heligan Group. This sale will have no material positive or negative impact on the Group’s 2021 earnings.
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Technology and Gun Crime
Technological advancements to close the gap between solving gun crime and preventing gun crime.
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Helping customers with their IBIS-related operations during the COVID-19 crisis
As we practice Social Distancing to keep our families and friends safe from the new Coronavirus COVID-19, Ultra Electronics Forensic Technology would like to extend its professional services to our customers so they can sustain their critical IBIS operations and continue to prevent and solve gun crime. We have taken steps to ensure our Support
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File Management and Data Sharing
With the various technology options available for forensic science laboratories today, it is essential that the technology can be leveraged in as many ways as possible.
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Standardized Training and Testing
An ongoing concern of forensic science laboratories is the availability of training options for new firearm and toolmark examiners.
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A Defendable Error Rate Has Arrived!
Firearm examiners have done their best to provide the courts with an answer to this question with varying levels of success.
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Webinar Series | Elevating Community Engagement and Relationships to Reduce Gun Violence
This webinar is presented in collaboration with the Justice Clearinghouse and The National Police Foundation.
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Webinar Series | The Wichita Crime Gun Intelligence Center: a Unique Law Enforcement University Partnership Approach
When implementing or enhancing an existing regional preventive crime gun strategy, partnerships are critical to the success of any initiative. In October, 2019 the Wichita Crime Gun Intelligence Center was launched, involving the first of its kind law enforcement-university partnership between the Wichita Police Department and Wichita State University (WSU).
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Webinar Series | Preserving and Enhancing Your Violent Crime Reduction Program in the Era of “De-funding’’
This webinar emphasizes the core components necessary for an effective violent crime reduction strategy.
WatchSuccess stories
No Gun Left Behind : New Jersey’s Inside-Out Approach to Gun Crime
Change is not easy. Whether it be at a political level, management level, or even at the forensic lab, the need for change isn’t always broadcast and effecting change isn’t always easy. This video is an excellent summary of how actionable intelligence can be obtained from crime guns and related evidence. The innovation, will, and
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NIBIN Glendale Church Shooting
NIBIN, powered by IBIS technology, proves pivotal in helping solve this Arizona firearm crime.
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Police Link Crimes, Guns & Suspects Across National Borders
A violent transnational gang, operating between Spain and Portugal, has been stopped thanks to diligent police work, rigorous cross border protocols, and an innovative new-technology-based program called the INTERPOL Ballistic Information Network (IBIN).
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