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Police, Fire, EMS and the Public Collaborating for Public Safety
by Leveraging Smartphones and Social Media

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Redesigning Public Safety

Once in a while a product or technology comes along that is disruptive and changes an industry or way of doing things in a substantial way. For example, Skype, Netflix, Apple and Google rolled out products and services that approached their market in such a unique way that they changed everything.

When it comes to public safety, PublicEye® is such a product.

There are over a billion smartphones and tablets in the world. Businesses that have integrated these devices into their processes typically benefit from significant reduced time to respond and increases in productivity, mobility and savings.

Yet, the public safety community - police, fire and EMS - has been lagging in adopting the wireless technology. They had no choice; there was no comprehensive solution they could adopt.

Until now

Using iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets, PublicEye® automates many police, fire and EMS functions and processes. It brings video streaming and other technologies to bear on the business of public safety in a way never done before. It even helps police, fire and EMS to interoperate with each other within their own communities or with their counterparts in adjacent communities.

PublicEye® leverages the more than a billion smartphone users to collaborate with police and fire in an innovative way through social media such as Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.

If you are a mayor, police or fire chief, or run an emergency medical service, you should learn more about PublicEye®. We are just a call or click away if you want a live demo.

PublicEye® can save life and property. You can also do more with less, which is very important if you are understaffed.

Here is how PublicEye® is redesigning public safety:

  • Every first responder, using a secure link, uses their iPhone, iPad or Android device to monitor 911 calls as they occur on a real-time map, and with one touch getting complete details.
  • A police chief or an officer watches, on a phone or tablet, the surveillance cameras at a locked down school from anywhere: at the school, headquarters or home.
  • A fire chief evaluates a situation from his home at 2 AM by viewing live video from a fire. Or an ER doctor watches video of a patient (and the instrument readings) from an accident site or the inbound ambulance, streamed from an EMT’s phone.
  • More than a billion smart phones and their owners are leveraged as active participants in public safety. At a house fire, the neighbor calls 911 and takes a photo (or video) and uploads it to her Twitter (or YouTube or Flickr) account. The Twitter icon appears next to the 911 icon. First responders and chiefs see the photo with one touch.
  • During a child-abduction situation, the officer at the location views the photos and addresses of every sex offender living nearby. At the HQ or in the field, detectives scour social media feeds surrounding the location for images of the child and abductor.
  • A sophisticated alert mechanism warns a volunteer firefighter of a nearby fire, or warns an officer when she drives by a sex offender’s residence, hazmat site, condemned building or other points of interest.
  • Public safety departments can initiate tweets and other social media postings to warn, inform and educate the community. Road closings or travel restrictions can be communicated quickly to a wide audience.
  • At an armed robbery at a convenience store, an officer takes a picture of the robber from the surveillance video and sends a group MMS BOLO with the photo to every officer with one touch. An authorized officer tweets the photo so that the public is warned and can be on the lookout.
  • A sophisticated multi-jurisdictional architecture allows police, fire and emergency medical personnel to seamlessly share information even when they use different CAD/RMS systems.
  • Officers observe locations of B&Es and other local crime history on a map in real-time as they drive through a neighborhood.
  • Firefighters view the building pre-plan or locate the nearest fire hydrant.
  • An AVL system tracks patrol cars, fire engines, ambulances, helicopters and officers and their ETAs.
  • A thrilling touch interface that is “So easy the Chief can use it.”®

Products Section: Public Safety


PolicePad/FireTab is now PublicEye®

PolicePad/FireTab is now PublicEye®

Zco Corporation’s public safety products, including PolicePad, FireTab, PolicePhone and FirePhone, now come under a single, unified product name, PublicEye®. “The new name better describes the vision behind our product line and eliminates brand fragmentation” according to

Gary Mueller, Vice President of Business Development for the public safety products.
You can get more information on PublicEye® elsewhere on this page.


Zco Partners with CommSys for PublicEye®

CommSys for PublicEye®

Zco Corporation, one of the world’s largest app developers, has partnered with Ohio-based CommSys to provide additional functionality to their mobile safety solution, PublicEye®. Using the CommSys ConnectCIC™ software, PublicEye® will be able to perform CJIS-secure state checks nationwide.

PublicEye® is an iPad, iPhone and Android-compatible safety solution that allows first responders to easily view critical information from computer-aided dispatch (CAD) on.. Read more »


PolicePad featured in Police Magazine

PolicePad Featured in Police Magazine

Zco Corporation's PolicePad was featured in a recent Police Magazine where tablets, such as the Apple's iPad, will have a major impact on public safety technology. As more advanced features (such as PolicePad) comes to tablets, efficiency and effectiveness are being increased in law enforcement.

The Lowell (Mass.) police department would agree, as they explain how helpful PolicePad has been in their department. Read more »


PublicEye® Showcased at Apple/CDW-G Public Safety Events

PublicEye® Showcased at Apple/CDW-G Public Safety Events

Zco's public safety solution was featured at two events put together by Apple and technology supplier CDW-G. Zco’s Vice President of Business Development, Gary Mueller, was on hand to

demonstrate how to upgrade legacy systems with mobile solutions to keep police officers and firefighters connected at all times. Read more »


Zco Presents “4G meets the G-Man” at International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference

Zco Presents “4G meets the G-Man” at International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference

Gary Mueller, Vice President of Business Development at Zco Corporation, one of the world’s largest developers of custom mobile applications, will be speaking at Innovation Theater during the 119th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego this September. Mueller’s presentation, “4G meets the G-Man: The Use of Wireless Tablets, Smart Phones, and Multimedia Communications

in Law Enforcement,” will give an in-depth look at the use of wireless devices for law enforcement officers Attendees will learn how access to real-time data can help a department improve both response time and critical actions on 911 calls. The primary software application in the presentation, PolicePad, runs on Apple iPad tablets. Mueller will demonstrate how formatting essential...Read more »



iPads keep Lowell police in touch

iPads Keep Lowell Police in Touch

Lowell Police have been working with Apple and the Zco Corporation since 2011 to develop software that enables police to use iPads, possibly in place of the traditional, and much more expensive, laptop computers in cruisers. In "a matter of weeks, not months," another 20 to 25 iPads will be rolled out to detectives here in Lowell. Superintendent Lavallee tells me this could very well be a replacement for laptop

computers in the future. In other news about LPD equipment, police have also decided the Chevrolet Caprice police interceptor is going to be the city's new police cruiser now that Ford is no longer producing the Crown Victoria. I'm working on a story about the cruisers for later this week, and just finished reading an explanation of the choice. The Caprice sounds like a hell of a car, plus it has a V8 engine...Read more »


FireTab Featured on Amherst Patch

FireTab Featured on Amherst Patch

The FireTab application was recently featured on the Amherst, NH site of the Patch.com network. The article details the donation of two iPads from the local Wal-Mart store to the Amherst Fire Department, which will be used to test FireTab in the field.

"Zco is known for being one of the world's largest developers of custom mobile applications and we are excited to be working with them on the continued development of this important tool," says Amherst Fire Chief Mark Boynton in the article. Read more »


Zco Corporation and Larimore Associates to Integrate Their Law Enforcement Products

Zco Corporation and Larimore Associates to Integrate Their Law Enforcement Products

Hudson, New Hampshire and Chesterfield, Missouri. — October 20, 2011 — Zco Corporation, developer of PublicEye®, an iPad based multi-functioning law enforcement tool for police officers in the field and Larimore Associates, a leading provider of Computer Aided Dispatch Systems, announces they will work closely to make their products interoperable with each other. Customers will realize unprecedented choice

and flexibility through improved interoperability between these systems. Larimore’s CAD systems provide a high degree of automation for the critical processes in the medium and large size police departments. On the other hand, PolicePad, by using the latest mobile technologies, provides access to information for the officers in the field through an easy to use touch/voice interface...Read more »


PolicePad Featured on Mashable

PolicePad Featured on Mashable

Zco Corporation's PolicePad was featured in a recent Mashable article on unusual workplaces where tablets are surprisingly effective. We weren't surprised, of course, and neither was the police department in Lowell, Massachusetts, where PolicePad is already in use and helps law enforcement officers be more efficient and

communicate easily. The workplace has been quick to adopt iPad and Android tablets. Today, it’s near commonplace to find tablets in the hands of doctors, real estate agents and retail employees. However, if you really want to see the future of tablets in the workplace, you have to look in unexpected places....
Read more »


Work for Public Safety at Zco!

We’re hiring sales and software support representatives for our PolicePad and FireTab product lines. Take a look at our careers page – if you’re familiar with Computer-Aided Dispatch and Records Management Systems and want to work on the cutting edge of technology, you could be just who we’re looking for!


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