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In order to effectively manage the use of taser guns (a weapon that fires a bunch of charged darts to make people temporarily immobile), the Nottinghamshire Police Department in the United Kingdom has adopted RFID lockers in its four police stations to ensure that only authorized officers are used. Only then have the opportunity to obtain the Taser. This system can also record the status of guns and their users, as well as the gun usage of specific police officers.
The vast majority of British police officers do not carry weapons with them. Until recently, British law allowed them to carry taser. The software company JML Software Solutions has implemented an RFID system to track the use of firearms in the Armory of the Nottingham County Police Department. When authorized police officers go through an RFID door to retrieve guns in the armory, the reader reads the ID card on the police officer’s body. When he or she leaves the armory, the ID code of the RFID tag on the Taser is also read, thereby matching the gun with the person. If the police officer does not return the gun in time, the system sends an alert to the management personnel.
One RFID tag attached to each taser
British law now allows trained police officers to carry taser. Nottingham County Police Department has an area of 800 square miles and a population of 1,000,000. The police station has a total of 2,500 uniformed and plainclothes police officers, and 1,500 logistics personnel. Currently, there are a total of 160 police officers carrying taser on duty.
“The problem is that not every police station is equipped with an armory.” JML CEO Luis Ponte said that installing an RFID door at the entrance of the armory cannot accurately track Taser guns. Therefore, JML recommends a set of RFID solutions to track the use of guns.
The Intelligent Drawer Armory System (iDAS) system was developed by RFIP Ltd., assisted by Tagsys’ RFID hardware.
RFID lockers are used to manage and track the condition and use of guns
At the beginning of this year, police department system administrator Nigel Rippon stated that the UK decided that the police department “can train and equip all weapons and equipment officers (including special forces, highway patrol officers, counter-terrorism teams, and officers assisted by police dogs). Taser”.
Considering the large area of jurisdiction, the police station only stores Taser guns in a few important branches. According to Rippon, the number of guns is not enough to be allocated to every police officer.
“This raises the issue of gun safety management. The police need to use a strong review system to effectively manage the firing, return, use and maintenance of guns,” Rippon said. In the past, the police station used manual lockers and paper records, but found that this manual system was prone to errors.
Therefore, JML recommends the use of RFID lockers with drawers. Each locked drawer can store a taser gun and its cartridges. The drawers are only available when authorized police officers show their RFID badge to the locker RFID reader. Unlock. JML invited RFIP to study the application of RFID technology, and RFIP chose Tagsys hardware. At the same time, because the police department has adopted JML software to manage the reader data of the armory, the company only needs to add a locker data management function to the software.
Each locked drawer of the RFID locker stores a taser gun and its cartridges, and the drawer is unlocked only when an authorized police officer shows his RFID badge to the RFID reader of the locker
The police department tested the system in four branches in June this year, involving a total of 60 drawers. Each locker is equipped with two Tagsys Medio P032 readers-one reads Tagsys Ario 370-SDM (small disc-shaped) 13.56 MHz tags that meet the ISO 15693 standard, and the other reads the ID code of the police officer ID card. Each locker has 16 drawers, and each drawer is equipped with an electronic lock. The antenna is distributed in the locker to read the ID code of each tag in the drawer.
When taking the gun, the police officer showed the ID card to the reader installed next to the locker and entered its password on the small keyboard. The RFID reader reads the ID code and transmits it to the back-end system via Ethernet. JLM’s WEB software is connected with the Oracle back-end system software of the police station to confirm whether the ID code matches the password, and whether the police officer has received the necessary training to use the Taser.
Each lockable drawer stores a taser and its cartridge
If the two match, the officer has the right to use the Taser, and a series of questions and instructions are displayed on the screen, including asking the officer if he has ever drunk any alcoholic beverages, and safety advice on the use of the gun. When the police officer responds to this information, the KML software calculates which gun should be used based on the frequency of use of the gun. And opened the drawer where the gun was stored, and the police officer took out the gun and cartridges.
Each Taser is affixed with a Tagsys RFID tag with a diameter of 7.9 mm and a thickness of 1 mm. When the Taser is taken away, the locker reader no longer reads the ID code of the tag, and the software judges that the gun has been taken away. When returning, the police officer shows his or her ID card again, enters the password, logs in to the system, and confirms that he or she returned the firearm in person-and then responds to a series of questions, such as whether the firearm has been used (if any, how many bullets), whether Normal work, etc.
The police officers’ responses are stored in the software so that the management can track the status of individual guns. In addition, if the police officer reports that the gun is not working properly, the system will send an alarm to the gun maintenance personnel. At the same time, the drawer storing the gun is only unlocked by the maintenance personnel.
Ponte stated that the system also includes a safety feature to ensure the true return of the gun, rather than just returning the label. Although, Ponte refused to disclose specific information, but said it used a hidden destruction label.
According to Rippon, “RFID lockers provide secure, keyless remote gun tracking, avoiding paper records and manual issues.”
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