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September 5, 2006

Photo: Casting a wireless web over crime

Journal photo / Kathy Borchers
Providence Patrolman Joseph Thomas demonstrates the computer system in a patrol car while Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline watches. Cicilline and other city officials this morning unveiled a $2.3-million wireless communications system purchased with federal dollars. Among other things, the system enables the police to transmit images such as mug shots and bank robbery photos immediately to patrol cars.

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