Law-enforcement officials are about to get one up on criminals via a technology boost.
On Monday, TASER International, a developer, manufacturer and supplier of smart weapons, body-worn cameras and evidence data storage for law enforcement, announced a partnership with Microsoft to bolster its technology. According to Microsoft, the partnership will combine the Microsoft Azure cloud and Windows 10 devices with TASER's Axon Platform and Evidence.com solutions.
Each party expects the collaborative effort will bolster the way law-enforcement officials manage evidence including aspects like "ingesting, retrieving, sharing, analyzing and archiving video," according to Microsoft. The tech giant also claims that the partnership will give law-enforcement agencies the peace of mind to entrust the companies' combined technologies with the most critical evidence and data.
In addition, the combined technologies will have software upgrades every 30 days to ensure that officials are getting the most up-to-date features to aid them in their investigations.
"TASER is revolutionizing how law enforcement captures, processes and shares digital evidence," Curt Kolcun, Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Microsoft, said in the company's press release about the partnership. "By combining this expertise with Microsoft's intelligent cloud, device and data technologies, we will collectively bring to life not only the 'mobile precinct' approach for positive policing, but we'll do it within the highest of compliance standards of privacy and security around the globe."
The technologies are set to impact law-enforcement officials in the United States and beyond. Contemplating criminals — you've been warned.
