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NMLEA
The Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) will be quickly upon us, and if history gives us any indication, we need to be ready for a short window of opportunity. The 2017 program allowed just 20 days for applicants to have their packages in... and that's not a lot of time.
How can you get ready and begin the process today? By participating in this very important webinar on Wednesday, April 25, at 2 p.m. EDT/1 p.m. Central/11 a.m. PDT.
Have you had trouble securing Port Security Grants? Maybe you've had limited resources or expertise necessary to help navigate through the constantly changing federal grant obstacle course. Could you use a little coaching? Tune in this very informative session, where key leaders who have helped guide numerous agencies, departments and maritime stakeholders from all around the country through the process for over a decade, will share their knowledge, experience and guidance as you look at the possibilities for your agency or organization.
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NMLEA
The National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy announced an innovative way to provide its members and associates with an advanced solution that makes healthcare faster, easier, convenient, and less expensive. Through a partnership with Capstone Health Network, the Academy joins 3,000,000 people who benefit from elements of this program which is reshaping healthcare for as little as $12.95 per month.
Capstone Health Network is a social good company with a big mission ... improve healthcare accessibility and bring down the high cost of healthcare for individuals, families, and businesses.
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Homeland Security
Atlanta joins a growing number of municipal, state and government-level targets to fall prey to an increasingly complex cyber threat environment. Just as a heating and cooling vendor served as the backdoor to Target's breach, cities may very well be a backdoor to broader cyber vulnerabilities affecting U.S. national security.
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Homeland Security Today
The FBI says that tech support fraud — where cyber criminals pose as technical support professionals — has risen by 86 percent over 2016. In 2017 nearly $15 million dollars in losses were reported to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3.
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Homeland Security Today
A radioactive disaster may not be something we actively worry about, but it can happen, and emergency services in Juneau are preparing for it. That is why the Coast Guard Sector Juneau is sponsoring "Shielded Eagle 2018." The program, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Britany McKibben said, is a training session for the Coast Guard, Juneau Police Department and several other security agencies to work through what to do if a nuclear threat strikes a ferry boat.
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Homeland411
Improving missile defense, understanding other countries' nuclear capabilities, and better defining national security roles top the list of recommendations in The Heritage Foundation report The Danger of EMP Requires Innovative and Strategic Action. The report examines the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat to the nation and what can and should be done about it.
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The Associated Press via Akron Beacon Journal
The family of an Ohio SWAT officer fatally shot during a standoff in Columbus two years ago will help christen a new police boat in his honor. Columbus police say the new watercraft will be dedicated in the name of Officer Steven Smith.
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CIMSEC
America's sea services have always been on the nation's first line of defense against threats to national interests and on the first line of response to disasters at home and abroad. Traditionally this has taken the form of sustaining and guarding physical sea lines of communication that connect the United States to other maritime nations, while exercising readiness to project military power or render disaster response to physical crises around the globe.
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Fox News
The U.S. government has acknowledged the existence in Washington, D.C. of what appear to be devices that could be used by foreign spies and criminals to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages, the Associated Press reported. In a recent letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, the Department of Homeland Security admitted that it "has observed anomalous activity in the [Washington D.C. area] that appears to be consistent with International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers."
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WPLG-TV
The 20-year-old operator of a 91-foot charter yacht had put the vessel's engines in reverse when one of the passengers who was in the water off Florida's Monument Island was fatally struck by the propellers, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission report stated. According to the accident report, the yacht was beached at Monument Island Sunday afternoon when Raul Menendez, 25, of Hialeah, was struck by the propellers.
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The Maritime Executive
The Port of Corpus Christi's board has voted to issue up to $400 million in debt if it finds that it needs to self-finance the dredging of its ship channel to 54 feet deep. In the 28 years since approving the dredging project, Congress has never funded the federal share of the cost, and the new debt would allow Corpus Christi to move forward in the event that it cannot secure government support.
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Biometric Update
"We think the next wave of advancement for biometrics [for law enforcement] will come from a social context through... easier access and user-generated data [that] will make facial recognition more effective than ever before," a new paper has forecasted.
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Safety+Health
Law enforcement officers have a nonfatal injury rate nearly three times higher than the general workforce — with "assaults and violent acts" against them the leading cause — according to a recent National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health study.
Using data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System — Occupational Supplement, researchers found that 669,100 law enforcement personnel were treated for injuries in U.S. emergency rooms from 2003 to 2014.
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The Washington Post
The Department of Homeland Security said a surge of illegal crossings last month justifies the Trump administration's call for an emergency deployment of National Guard troops to the Mexican border, citing a 37 percent increase in the number of people taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol. Federal agents arrested or denied entry to 50,308 unauthorized migrants in March, the highest one-month total since President Trump took office and a 200 percent increase over the same period last year, when crossings fell to historic lows.
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