Dear Huge Futrell, President, Georgia Association of Fire Chiefs, first off let me thank you for all the great support and hard work that you and the members of your organization have put forth in making Georgia a better place to live and work.  In an effort to ensure that we here at the Department of Justice’s National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center Southeast are providing the best possible support to public safety agencies in Georgia I ‘am sending out this email to update you on the services provided free of charge by the NLECTC.  The following is a list of services that we currently provide. If you know of an agency or department that could benefit from one of our services please feel free to pass on this email or my contact information. Additionally if you know of a specific person at the state or local level that could assist in spreading the word about what we can offer agencies or who I should contact directly I would be grateful if you would pass this on to them or provide the center back their contact information.

NLECTC Southeast Mission                                                

With a mission to support law enforcement, corrections, and other emergency response agencies as an honest broker of technology information and assistance, the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center - Southeast (NLECTC-Southeast) is the regional field representative of the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Science and Technology.

NLECTC-Southeast's no-cost services span a broad range of activities designed to facilitate the implementation of affordable, quality, technology-oriented services and systems with the ultimate goal of greater effectiveness, efficiency, and safety.

Center services include:

• Providing technical assistance in the area of land mobile radio.
• Assistance in establishing or enhancing existing communications interoperability.  
• Assessing the needs of the public safety community.
• Providing information on technology and its implementation to the public safety community.
• Coordinating evaluations of new and emerging technologies to determine their effectiveness for use in the public safety community.
• Supporting advisory groups of subject matter experts to guide and evaluate technology research and development to meet the needs of the public safety community.
• Assisting agencies in developing enhanced information management capabilities, including records management and wireless communications.
• Identifying and testing technologies to address school safety concerns.
• Enhancing incident mapping and geo-spatial analysis techniques through research and capacity building opportunities.
• Developing technology solutions for port and maritime security issues.
• Facilitating the location and processing of Department of Defense and other Federal agencies' excess equipment for issue to criminal justice agencies

Once again thanks for all the great work.

 

 

Charles Stephenson

 

Charles Stephenson

Public Safety Communications Systems Engineer

NLECTC-SE/CommTech

Office: (800) 292-4385

Office: (843) 760-3283

Stephenson@nlectc-se.org

http://nlectc.org/nlectcse

 

The National Institute of Justice is the research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. NLECTC is a program of NIJ’s Office of Science and Technology.