Technology and Equipment

The NYPD is the most technologically advanced police department in the nation and utilizes cutting-edge technology and equipment to ensure the safety of both its officers and the communities they’re sworn to protect.

Some of the department's technological advancements and equipment upgrades include:

• Smartphones for all police officers
• Tablets for patrol vehicles
• Ballistic door protection for hundreds of patrol vehicles
• More Tasers in patrol commands
• Stronger pepper spray in better canisters
• Upgraded escape hoods
• Heavy vests and Kevlar helmets
• Belt-worn trauma kits
• Military-grade flashlights
• The Domain Awareness System, which pools existing live streams of data from multiple sources
• CompStat 2.0, which provides officers in the field with access to updated and interactive, real-time crime pattern analysis and mapping software
• Body camera technology that records enforcement encounters
• ShotSpotter technology that identifies, records, locates, and reports gunshots

• Police Vehicles
• Technology
• Equipment
• Body-worn Cameras
• Facial Recognition