"The 'Uniting Communities, Preparing the Nation' award from Prince George's County Citizen Corps Council was presented to TransGlobal Business Systems for setting up the Metropolitan Police Department's situational awareness solution (StarLight) during the activation of the Prince George's County Emergency Operations Center in response to Hurricane Irene as well as September 11, 2011. TransGlobal Business Systems' representative provided increased public safety communications between Prince George's County and Washington D.C., allowing additional responses to all potential threats within the National Capital Region."
Small Business Initiative Outstanding Industry Award
“TransGlobal was awarded the Outstanding Service Industry Award from the Small Business Initiative for technology services and products.
Metropolitan Police Department / Inauguration
“TransGlobal set up the Situation Awareness Management System (SAMS) for MPD's joint operations command and control during the 2009 U.S. Presidential Inauguration. – State Government and Homeland Security”
Prince Georges Police Department
“TransGlobal implemented Motorola's EVALIS solution to address the Department of Justice's (DOJ) mandate of consent decree and memorandum of agreement. This successful implementation of an early intervention personnel management system has influenced the attitude of police personnel regarding the excessive use of force. – Local Government and Law Enforcement”
National Harbor Resort Community (Critical Infrastructure)
"TransGlobal developed the Shared Intelligence System to provide integrated facility and infrastructure security analysis and management at the largest mixed-use real estate project in the Eastern United States. – Private Sector and Public Safety"
TransGlobal's CrimePROBE SAMS solution
Offers real-time situational awareness and interoperability with surrounding agencies. Jurisdictions can achieve effective information sharing by integrating computer-aided dispatch (CAD), existing records management data, geographic information system-based data, satellite imagery, video footage, and photographic images via a centralized data storage and retrieval system thus providing a common-operating platform. This solution was utilized by Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department during the historic 2009 Presidential Inauguration.
Featured in TechBeat
TransGlobal's SAMS solution was highlighted in the Fall 2011 issue of TechBeat, the award-winning news-magazine of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) system. Mount Rainier Police Department's Chief Michael Scott discusses the advantages of SAMS, "It gives us a heads up and increases officer safety. Our guys are able to know what is going on around them from a D.C. perspective. We are able to see when a major crime occurs close to us so we know what to be on the lookout for".
School Safety
TransGlobal's solutions offer the ability to monitor incidents surrounding the school whether it be accidents, altercations, illegal drug or gang activity or flu epidemics; collaborate and achieve interoperability with surrounding schools and districts; manage events, whether planned or unplanned, including sports events, evacuation drills and simulations; have real-time situational awareness with tracking points of interest and persons of interest.
Sheriff's Association
Our solutions are able to support all several initiatives and solve timely problems with Sheriff's offices around the Nation. Our real-time situational awareness solutions provide a common operating platform for jurisdictions surrounding your own. You no longer need to wait to hear what's going around you, our software provides you with real-time alerts and notifications.
Consortiums for Colleges & Universities
TransGlobal's solutions are centered on campus security, event planning and operations management. Our solutions allow for incident management, data collaboration, event operations and situational awareness. You are provided with a visual awareness through geo-spatial mapping identification; a complete single-point resource management solution for campus safety providing protection of tomorrow's future, today.
United States Secret Service
United States Secret Service has requested utilization of our StarLight solution in order to obtain real-time situational awareness. The solution will be utilized within the U.S. Secret Service Command Center
in addition to their tactical patrol vehicle for mobile deployments. Primary usage will be for real-time notifications regarding events and incidents for pro-active response while protecting high-profile asset.
United States Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court is now utilizing our Situational Awareness Management System (SAMS) and our web-based solution, StarLight, to enhance their situational awareness. Both systems are being utilized to obtain real-time situational awareness within the District of Columbia pertinent to incidents and events around the perimeters of the U.S. Supreme Court, transportation routes of high profile assets and areas where high-profile assets are visiting or residing. Additional uses include performing incident analytics and threat assessments based on historical incident data and criminal justice database queries.
Homeland Security
With the ability to provide situational awareness, multi-jurisdictional collaboration, timely incident capture, virtual facility management, incident analysis, Plan of Operation management, and many other state-of-the-art modules, TransGlobal's solutions are being utilized by several homeland security and department of justice agencies including US Secret Service, US Supreme Court and Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
TransGlobal’s solutions, SAMS and StarLight, are able to provide school systems with real-time situational awareness, incident management, data collaboration and event operations. Our solutions allow school systems to have:
Incident Management: accidents, injuries, altercations, illegal drugs, and/or gang activity, flu epidemics, etc.
Data Collaboration: a common operating platform across all schools within a certain district or multiple districts
Event Operations: sports events, large school events (prom, homecoming, etc), evacuation drills/simulations
Situational Awareness: real-time tracking points of interest and persons of interest (cameras, hospitals, hot spots, gang members, truants, barred individuals)
This functionality provides visual awareness through geo-spatial mapping identification. SAMS and StarLight are the complete single-point resource management solution for public school safety providing protection of tomorrow’s future, today.
Who is currently utilizing our solutions within a school system?
Prince George’s County Public School System in Maryland is currently utilizing SAMS. The Department of School Security requested SAMS to assist them in:
Monitoring multi-school facilities
Provision of incident threat analysis and reporting
Event and resource management planning and response
Tracking and maintenance of persons of interest (Gang member threat mitigation)
What are the key benefits of a school system utilizing our solutions?
Some key benefits of these solutions include:
Real-time monitoring of threats within a defined boundary of operations (drugs, gang activity, flu epidemic spread)
Model tactical operations based on real-time data and event management
Provide on-demand analyst capabilities with real-time exportable data and tools for effective deployment and tactical operations
Improve collaboration through real-time data sharing and analysis during inter-agency exercises
Modular design allowing a tailored approach to implementation needs
Quantify additional head-count requests and/or deployments based on historical tracking data and reports
Suspicious Activity Reporting including real-time notification and immediate geo-spatial visual awareness upon entry of each SAR
For more information on our solutions and school safety, click here for our brochure.
Information Resources
The below is a list of information resources for school safety, emergency response and preparedness as well as the latest news related to school threats and other school safety news.
Teen Violence Statistics: Article containing statistics on school shootings, a profile of people who have participated in school shootings, and tips on how to deal with school violence
FBI Resources on School Violence: The FBI complied a list of resources related to school violence – all available on public or through public websites
CDC School Violence Data & Statistics:Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Injury Center provides data and statistics on school violence and school violence prevention
Prince George’s County Public School System is utilizing SAMS to monitor incidents surrounding the school whether it be accidents, altercations, illegal drug or gang activity or flu epidemics; collaborate and acheive interoperability with surrounding schools and districts; manage events, whether planned or unplanned, including sports events, evacuation drills and simulations; have real-time situational awareness with tracking points of interest and persons of interest.
TransGlobal provides critical infrastructure logistics through their newly formed partnership with Office Movers, Inc. We are able to provide services such as office moving, computer and electronics, warehouse moving, modular furniture installations, library moving, heavy equipment and rigging, storage and distribution, records management, electronic recycling and data destruction, and document destruction.
For more information on Critical Infrastructure Logistics, click here.
TransGlobal has teamed up with Office Movers, Inc. to provide a variety of critical infrastructure logistic services. Our team has over 40 years of dedicated service and has become the number one commercial mover in the United States. We are proud to offer the business community a commitment to quality and truly provide total service from start to finish.
Your business is exposed to risks well beyond the cost of the movers you engage. Hiring an experienced, commercial office relocation company will assure your business is moved quickly, efficiently and cost effectively, minimizing downtime while maximizing productivity. Your employees should leave work at the close of business and arrive on the first business day following the move prepared to continue with their normal assignments. At Office Movers, Inc. we perform most relocations after regular hours and on weekends in order to allow you to do what you do best – run your business uninterrupted.
Office Moving
We move offices and everything within the offices including desks, chairs, copy machines, computers, professionally, quickly and affordably. We handle large relocations in short time frames (moving an office of 500 people in one weekend is a regular occurrence). Whether you occupy an entire office building or work out of a single suite, we can provide you quality service to move your office.
Computers & Electronics
Our Tech Services Division is expert at handling and moving computers and other pieces of sensitive electronic equipment. From Data Centers to stand-alone workstations, from mainframes to PCs, all equipment is de-installed, carefully prepared for shipment, transported on air-ride vehicles, and brought back online through coordination with your information services department.
Warehouse Moving
Inventory, racks and bins are packed and moved so employees can resume order processing the minute the move is completed. Items are moved sequentially and systematically to minimize crippling downtime.
Modular Furniture Installations
We have trained personnel who can deliver and install all types of modular furniture for hotels, offices, schools and institutions.
Library Moving
We have special equipment that allows us to move entire libraries and install them in exact catalog order. Materials remain accessible throughout the move by utilizing protective library carts.
Heavy Equipment & Rigging
Whether up stairs or through a window, we have the trained personnel and equipment to safely and efficiently move large equipment, including automated teller machines, printing presses, safes, computer mainframes and telephone switching equipment.
Storage & Distribution
We have over 10.6 million cubic square feet of warehouse space that allows us to have more than 200 vehicles available to receive, store and distribute office furniture, computers, copiers and machinery. Short and long term storage is available at our eight secure warehouses.
Records Management
Business archives are laser bar-coded for safe, accurate inventory control and prompt retrieval when you need them.
Electronic Recycling & Data Destruction
Rapid advances in technology can render your computers and monitors obsolete in three years or less; the resulting need for disposal of “e-waste” presents legal, environmental and data protection challenges.
Document Destruction
We can provide the secure containers and the uniformed badged personnel you need to properly dispose of old or unwanted files. And if you desire a longer term solution, let us place a console in your office and schedule regular pickup for certified shredding and destruction.
For more information on these services, please contact us at sales@transglobalbiz.com or (301) 583-4630.
Largo, MD – Since September 11, 2001, the Nation has been looking for answers on how to bridge the gap in emergency communications.
The National Capital Region has an intense threat level, and preventing and responding to any disaster is the region’s top priority. Technologies and tools that can predict crimes and respond to crimes in an efficient and effective way are keys to protecting the Nation’s capital.
WASHINGTON – Bad guys often commit crimes in one city or county and then flee to another.
To solve these crimes, local police departments talk to one another and share information, a process that appears to be improving in the region.
“Communication between Montgomery County and D.C. is the best I’ve seen it in all my years of working here,” says Takoma Park Police Chief Ronald Ricucci.
He also keeps in close touch with Prince George’s County Police, he says.
Ricucci has been in law enforcement for more than 40 years, including many years with the Montgomery County Police Department. He says officers from these different jurisdictions talk on the phone or through email.
“We’re talking off hours, all times of day,” he says.
The improved communication is paying off.
“We’re working better together. We’re making more arrests,” Ricucci says.
On Friday, for example, someone tried to steal a car in Takoma Park. A combined effort by two police departments helped recover the vehicle.
“D.C. spotted the car (and) took it to the line. P.G. spotted the car. We didn’t catch it, but all three were talking, and within an hour the car was recovered as a result of the communication,” Ricucci says.
“Unmanned aircraft can provide a number of tactical advantages for police, particularly in situations that require stealthy observation. But as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) works on proposed regulations for these vehicles, aviation experts believe safety issues still need to be addressed before widespread use takes off…”
“When it comes to public safety, forward-thinking government agencies are beginning to look at social media as a support tool for improved situational awareness.
The very nature of social media’s open communication and crowdsourced information provides a powerful tool for public safety agencies.”
January 2012
Cooperation among police agencies leads to more crime solving WTOP
“Bad guys often commit crimes in one city or county and then flee to another.
To solve these crimes, local police departments talk to one another and share information, a process that appears to be improving in the region.
‘Communication between Montgomery County and D.C. is the best I’ve seen it in all my years of working here,’ says Takoma Park Police Chief Ronald Ricucci…”
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Prince George’s police boost patrols to prevent repeat of homicide surge The Gazette
“To keep this year’s homicide rate down, the Prince George’s County Police Department has begun 2012 with a surge: Every day this month, 150 additional officers are taking to the streets.
The county ended 2011 with 95 criminal homicides, five more than in 2010. Fifteen of the 2011 homicides occurred in January, an unusually violent month that police officials said was an anomaly…”
Police departments in central Prince George’s consider agreement to share resources The Gazette
“Don’t be surprised to see a District Heights city police officer making an arrest in Capitol Heights and vice versa if enough municipal police departments sign an agreement to share their resources.
Hoping to fight crime in central Prince George’s through information-sharing, the town of Capitol Heights is looking for other municipal police departments to sign off on an agreement within the next month giving officers the authority to make arrests in neighboring jurisdictions, back up officers on service calls and spread themselves around on county enforcement missions…”
December 2011
As homicides fall in D.C., rise in Prince George’s, numbers meet in the middle The Washington Post
“The District and Prince George’s County had nearly the same number of homicides in 2011, a major departure from a high 20 years ago, when the city saw 325 more slayings than the county.
It is a shift that reflects a double-digit drop in killings in the District from 2010 to 2011, with an especially noticeable downward trend in the most stubborn crime zones east of the Anacostia River. Just across the border, though, the homicide count in the neighboring communities in Prince George’s is surging, and the county as a whole saw a slight increase last year…”
A report from a June 10, 2011 meeting where 25 government and industry leaders meet to assess the move, share insight, and describe enablers and obstacles of moving to “Government 2.0″.
Police departments in central Prince George’s consider agreement to share resources Officers would have arrest power outside jurisdiction, encourages backing up neighboring forces
by Natalie McGill, Staff Writer
Don’t be surprised to see a District Heights city police officer making an arrest in Capitol Heights and vice versa if enough municipal police departments sign an agreement to share their resources.
Hoping to fight crime in central Prince George’s through information-sharing, the town of Capitol Heights is looking for other municipal police departments to sign off on an agreement within the next month giving officers the authority to make arrests in neighboring jurisdictions, back up officers on service calls and spread themselves around on county enforcement missions.
A similar agreement was formed in 2009 but is back for review since municipal administrations and police leadership may have changed since then, Ayers said.
Cities asked to participate include District Heights, Fairmount Heights, Glenarden and Seat Pleasant, said Capitol Heights Police Deputy Chief Anthony Ayers Sr. An agreement would eliminate concern that a defense attorney could discredit an arrest because an officer was outside his or her boundary, Ayers said.
Attorneys representing the municipalities will need time to review the agreement before the respective city and town councils make a decision on whether to be a part of it, Ayers said.
Glenarden Police Chief Phil O’Donnell said he has been contacted by Capitol Heights Police Chief Gary Blakes Jr. about the agreement, but as of Monday had not seen a revised version and the city attorney Suellen Ferguson would need to review it before any decision is made.
O’Donnell said his first priority is Glenarden and that crime is under control there so he has to be careful how he uses his resources. There are 11 full-time officers including O’Donnell who provide 24-7 coverage.
“It’s not going to happen quick,” O’Donnell said of the process. “I know he’s new and he’s trying to get things going, we’ll help him anyway we can, but as far as the [agreement] goes, we have to see what it is first.”
Ayers said having the partnership will help with visits from the Joint Agency Group, a combination of representatives from agencies such as Prince George’s County police and the county’s Department of Social Services that visit areas residents identify as problem spots for crime and poor property upkeep.
Ayers said with an agreement, JAG could include officers from different municipal departments to go out on one JAG visit that hits problem spots in central Prince George’s instead of spending overtime money to use three to four officers from one department on a JAG visit.
The agreement would encourage more joint enforcement missions to patrol areas marked for drug activity, loitering and breaking and enterings. Ayers said having officers from each department on these missions is safer than one officer trying to stop and question multiple individuals.
“It’s very important you go out there and gather information and [with] these small police departments because we don’t have the manpower we can’t close these cases out,” Ayers said. “This is the way police is supposed to be. There’s going to be a lot of changes.”
District Heights Police Chief Michael March said that the agreement was underused in the past, but now that cities are revisiting it there still needs to be a discussion among the District Heights City Commission about what happens if his department gets calls at the same time.
District Heights has coverage 24-7 with 11 full-time officers.
“Their concern could be that our officers should be looking out for our own citizens and that should be priority,” March said of the commission.
The District and Prince George’s County had nearly the same number of homicides in 2011, a major departure from a high 20 years ago, when the city saw 325 more slayings than the county.
It is a shift that reflects a double-digit drop in killings in the District from 2010 to 2011, with an especially noticeable downward trend in the most stubborn crime zones east of the Anacostia River. Just across the border, though, the homicide count in the neighboring communities in Prince George’s is surging, and the county as a whole saw a slight increase last year.
There were 97 slayings in Prince George’s in 2011, four more killings than in 2010. In the District, the year saw 109 homicides, down from 132 in 2010 and the lowest homicide total in the city since 1963.
“We share many of the same issues,” said D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier. “Quite a few of our victims come from Prince George’s County.”
The police department’s 7th District east of the Anacostia River — neighborhoods including Barry Farm and Congress Heights — saw its annual homicide count drop 55 percent, with 24 fewer killings in 2011. Neighborhoods across the border in Prince George’s 4th District — including Hillcrest Heights and Oxon Hill-Glassmanor — saw their count more than double, up by 21 slayings.
Law enforcement officials said the trend along Prince George’s border reflects problems that migrated with those who left the District for inside-the-Beltway county neighborhoods, including issues connected with poverty and long-simmering neighborhood disputes.
Some D.C. residents who still see frequent violence in their neighborhoods are weary, and say there’s not much to celebrate in the city’s declining homicide numbers.
Prince George’s Police Chief Mark Magaw said crime has long run “back and forth” between the District and Prince George’s, and he has pushed this year for increased cooperation between the two police departments.
“It’s one big community now,” he said. “No longer do we have the luxury of saying, ‘We only have to worry up to Southern Avenue,’ ” one of the borders between the city and county.
Though killings in both the District and Prince George’s averaged about two per week during 2011, overall violent crime in the city fell by 10 percent and in the county by 12 percent.
But the city had a 6 percent jump in property crime, largely due to a growing problem with thieves grabbing smartphones, computer tablets and other electronic devices from people and cars. “Snatching electronics is the battle of the century,” Lanier said. “It’s the single biggest problem I have in term of numbers.”
Aiming for fewer than 100
Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) said that the decline in homicides in the District is encouraging and that the city should work to try to get to fewer than 100 slayings in 2012.
“When people see crime going down like this, especially homicides, they are going to feel safer,” Gray said. “My sense is that people do feel safer. On the other hand, when you still see north of 100 homicides in the city, even though it’s a stark reduction, people are going to continue to be concerned about it. Some additional vigilance is going to serve you well, too.”
Killings in the District have fallen rapidly in recent years, with 2011 bringing the lowest number of slayings in nearly 50 years.
“When I started here in 1990, the two things that used to really bother me was that we were known as the murder capital of the world and the city of unsolved homicides,” Lanier said. “Our detectives and our police officers have done an amazing job turning that around. We are no longer either one of those things.”
Homicides in Prince George’s have been generally trending downward as well, though at a slower pace.
The rest of the region’s suburbs have far fewer homicides than the District and Prince George’s, with most counties recording 2011 homicide numbers roughly unchanged from the prior year. Fairfax County was an exception, with a decrease from 16 to 8.
Though Montgomery County had just 16 homicides in 2011, in March it saw one of the year’s highest-profile murders in the region when Brittany Norwood, an employee at a Bethesda Lululemon yoga store, fatally bludgeoned and stabbed a co-worker, Jayna Murray.
The Northeast quadrant of the city, covered by the 4th and 5th districts, ended the year with a combined eight more killings than in 2010.
Area crime watchers say they’ve seen violence steadily shift from the District into Prince George’s.
The migration of many of the District’s poorer residents to inside-the-Beltway communities in Prince George’s has been happening for years, fueled by the District tearing down some public housing, said former D.C. police chief Isaac Fulwood Jr., who led the department in the early 1990s, when the city had nearly 500 homicides a year.
That shift has had lasting effects, he said.
“People from D.C. that had to move tended to move to Prince George’s County, and they took with them the things that poverty brings: Lack of access to everything,” said Fulwood, who is now chairman of the U.S. Parole Commission.
The Prince George’s police department, which has more than 2,000 fewer officers than in the District, was left to deal with neighborhood disputes that people brought with them, as well as new beefs created in the large apartment complexes in Prince George’s.
“Alabama Avenue, Stanton Road subsidized housing, all of that is gone,” Prince George’s Deputy Chief Craig Howard said. “Now when you ride through those areas, there are townhouses, single-family homes.”
Last year’s killings in Prince George’s did not seem to follow any common thread, officials said. Young men and women sometimes killed one another in petty disputes.
The majority of the killings in Prince George’s happen inside the Beltway, a more urban setting than the rest of the county. Because Prince George’s has a larger overall population than the District, its homicide rate was lower than the city’s, with about 11 killings per 100,000 residents, compared with about 17 per 100,000 residents in the District.
Across the nation during the first half of last year, the homicide count increased by about 1 percent for cities the size of the District, and remained the same for counties such as Prince George’s, according to FBI crime statistics.
Lanier, who hoped to have fewer than 100 homicides in the District in 2011, said she remains frustrated by the numbers. “We’re not where we need to be until we have less than 50,” she said.
The Washington Post’s homicide count includes criminal killings within the borders of the city or the county, but does not include killings that officials have ruled justified. Prince George’s homicide numbers last year included one killing investigated by Laurel police and one on the Bowie State University campus.
Lanier said the District had fewer gang-related homicides than in prior years. Most killings happened amid personal disputes, often stemming from squabbles at nightclubs where people had been drinking, she said.
She added that her department’s homicide closure rate is about 94 percent, which sends a message to criminals.
“Word travels pretty quickly when a homicide happens and an arrest is made,” Lanier said. “Your risk of being caught is pretty high if you commit a homicide in D.C.”
Prince George’s police’s homicide closure rate was 63 percent last year, a slight increase over 2010.
In Prince George’s, 16 people were killed in January, including a teenager who used to cook eggs for his 3-year-old brother, an ice cream truck driver and a University of Maryland student who tutored athletes. But by year’s end, overall crime had dropped compared with 2010, with violent crime down about 12 percent and property crime down about 10 percent.
Lanier’s biggest success was in the 7th District, which has regularly led the city in killings and some other crimes. In 1993, the 7th District alone had 133 homicides. Last year it had 20.
“A lot of it is the officers being out there, being visible,” 7th District Commander Joel Maupin said. He said officers continue to take guns off the streets, and often blanket neighborhoods with extra patrols when they get a tip that violence might be coming.
It is essential, he said, to make arrests in crimes such as robberies and burglaries because it prevents future violence.
“Removing these individuals from the streets and doing it quickly reduces crime,” Maupin said.
Isaac, the clergyman who works in the same neighborhoods as Maupin, said his group visits every family that loses someone to violence, offering burial support, grief counseling and other services. “Even if you have one homicide a month, it’s impacting out there,” Isaac said.
Staff writer Mike DeBonis contributed to this report.
The District and Prince George’s County had nearly the same number of homicides in 2011, a major departure from a high 20 years ago, when the city saw 325 more slayings than the county.
It is a shift that reflects a double-digit drop in killings in the District from 2010 to 2011, with an especially noticeable downward trend in the most stubborn crime zones east of the Anacostia River. Just across the border, though, the homicide count in the neighboring communities in Prince George’s is surging, and the county as a whole saw a slight increase last year.
There were 97 slayings in Prince George’s in 2011, four more killings than in 2010. In the District, the year saw 109 homicides, down from 132 in 2010 and the lowest homicide total in the city since 1963.
“We share many of the same issues,” said D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier. “Quite a few of our victims come from Prince George’s County.”
The police department’s 7th District east of the Anacostia River — neighborhoods including Barry Farm and Congress Heights — saw its annual homicide count drop 55 percent, with 24 fewer killings in 2011. Neighborhoods across the border in Prince George’s 4th District — including Hillcrest Heights and Oxon Hill-Glassmanor — saw their count more than double, up by 21 slayings.
Law enforcement officials said the trend along Prince George’s border reflects problems that migrated with those who left the District for inside-the-Beltway county neighborhoods, including issues connected with poverty and long-simmering neighborhood disputes.
Some D.C. residents who still see frequent violence in their neighborhoods are weary, and say there’s not much to celebrate in the city’s declining homicide numbers.
Prince George’s Police Chief Mark Magaw said crime has long run “back and forth” between the District and Prince George’s, and he has pushed this year for increased cooperation between the two police departments.
“It’s one big community now,” he said. “No longer do we have the luxury of saying, ‘We only have to worry up to Southern Avenue,’ ” one of the borders between the city and county.
Though killings in both the District and Prince George’s averaged about two per week during 2011, overall violent crime in the city fell by 10 percent and in the county by 12 percent.
But the city had a 6 percent jump in property crime, largely due to a growing problem with thieves grabbing smartphones, computer tablets and other electronic devices from people and cars. “Snatching electronics is the battle of the century,” Lanier said. “It’s the single biggest problem I have in term of numbers.”
Aiming for fewer than 100
Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) said that the decline in homicides in the District is encouraging and that the city should work to try to get to fewer than 100 slayings in 2012.
Staff writer Mike DeBonis contributed to this report.
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Law enforcement, homeland security and public safety support
“It allows us to see what may be coming our way,” says Police Chief Michael Scott. “We are adjacent to the city. If someone carjacks a car in D.C. within a few blocks of our border, chances are they will head into Mount Rainier, not D.C.
“It gives us a heads up and increases officer safety. Our guys are able to know what is going on around them from a D.C.perspective. We are able to see when a major crime occurs close to us so we know what to be on the lookout for,” he says.
TransGlobal’s threat mitigation framework involves 4 phases: 1) Identifying threat source which can include terrorists, crimes, earthquakes, chemical or biological attacks; 2) a threat mitigation strategy involving threat mitigation components such as suspicious activity reporting (SAR), tactical exchange, vulnerability assessment, or the identification of persons of interest; 3) an early intervention strategy actualizing threat mitigation components such as the empowerment of police officers by conducting intelligence-led precision patrols versus blind patrols; and 4) threat management which is the emergency operation management and includes data fusion center capability based on interfaces with disparate data sources. TransGlobal’s solutions are able to provide threat mitigation solutions.
Since 9-11 a tremendous amount of teamwork has taken place between agencies resulting in the development of secure, enhanced super data highways and data exchange standards. Agreements have been forged between LE agencies for the structure and sharing of data. Seventy-two fusion centers have been created to enhance the multi-agency sharing and analysis of data, focusing heavily on homeland security. Participating agency members are working in close proximity viewing their own systems. The closeness has created a trust between agency members; however, are they truly on the same page? TransGlobal’s SAMS solution has the ability to provide the entire Nation with a common operating platform (COP) Bridging Gaps in Communication.
TransGlobal Business Systems, Inc, a local provider of situational awareness technologies, have partnered up with several Guardian One companies, Prince Georges County and Prince George’s Economic Development Corporation to showcase the advances in technologies since the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Collectively, the Guardian One companies are strongly advocating “public and private” collaboration as a means of readiness and preparedness for all potential threats to our communities. These solutions incorporate the disciplines of: public safety and homeland security organizations information sharing systems; CAD integration for cross-area situational awareness and interoperability; and the capability of visualizing, traditionally, isolated hot spots of intelligence. These technologies position the various public safety and law enforcement stakeholders to become more proactive and informed, rather than reactivate and blind. This type of collaborations advances the interest of public safety in general and incentivizes citizen to become involved in their own security. More recently, this was demonstrated when citizens from Prince George’s County became involved in working with both the Prince George’s County Emergency Response (Prince Georges County Award) and the Metropolitan Police Department, to enable transparency and awareness related to incidents and potential threats that could occur across their respective jurisdictional boundaries. During the course of these activities, the MPD’s situational awareness solution was activated in advance of Hurricane Irene to support its response to all potential threats within Washington D.C. The Transglobal Solution also addresses the importance of “hands free” operation, not requiring operator input. The data is automatically shared to the interested jurisdictions. It does not require manual input and is not subject to human error.
Our management philosophy is to be client centric, and solutions driven as it relates to our delivery of services and solutions methodologies. Our core competencies are primarily: law enforcement, public safety, emergency management response and business transformation. By focusing on our customers’ specific needs, we provide consulting solutions that are tailored toward ease of use, compliance with business practices, and integration with desired information technology architecture.
TransGlobal Business Systems, Inc. also specializes in Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) and other Business Transformation disciplines such as Enterprise Architecture (EA) assessments in a variety of speciality areas and industry sectors. We especially apply our wealth of related Subject Matter Expertise (SME) within these disciplines to assist our clients in the strategic alignment and integration of application solutions into their operation environments, as a component of our delivery of services. It is therefore TransGlobal’s role as a provider of software, hardware and business transformation solutions to advise our client agencies on industry best practices, technology optimization and the maximization of budget and return on their investment in technology integration and business alignment.
TransGlobal has conducted Enterprise Architecture analysis and various business process reviews for a variety of Federal, State and Local agencies. We typically approach these activities with a clear understanding of the short, medium and long term goals and objectives of the client agency. We would also conduct an end to end review of the client or user agency’s charter, relevant legislation and regulations that govern the operations of the client agency. Our methodology encompasses both a “top down” approach to address aspects of governance, policy creation, vision, strategy and goals definition, which become the drivers of the business architecture required to support the agencies envisioned strategic outlook. Our data gathering and “as is” capture of existing processes, data reliance initiatives are used for reporting purposes are typically “bottoms up” activities which in turn provides the client end-use a snap shot view of the existing state of is operations. Our methodology and proprietary information management technology allows us to create a template view of both the “as is state”, as well as the “to be state” automatically maps the gaps, dependencies and interdependencies for all of the Business Strategy, Business Process Analysis, Information Architecture Design, Application Architecture Design, Application Planning, Application Solution and the general streamlining of business objectives with the underlying business and IT architecture, required to support a seamless, transparent and sustainable approach in the achievement of an agencies overall vision.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software integrated all departments and functions from across an organization onto a single-sign on computer system and software solution providing a common operating platform for the entire organization. TransGlobal’s ERP solutions provide system integration, human resources management, finance and accounting and supply chain management. We focus on streamlining business processes and analyzing the processes within each department to ensure your organization is efficient and effective to accomplish your vision.
TransGlobal has a long list of past performance for event security, event management and event planning. TransGlobal’s highly efficient and experienced staff is available to provide a comprehensive package of services in the event management, security and planning arenas. We are committed to providing the full scope of services including the creative, technical and logistical elements of the event. Our staff is familiar with planning all types events from corporate meetings, marketing grand openings, sports events, weddings, protests and summits, etc. We have Certified Meeting Planners (CMP) on our staff who have over 20 years of experience.
Events Management & Security
We are committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all types of events including sporting events, conferences, concerts, festivals, conventions. We are aware of the heightened security levels due to recent events all over the world and understand the same security measures should be employed at special events. TransGlobal offers highly effective security management for sporting events, political events, conferences, conventions, concerts, festivals, etc. Our experienced staff assists your facility or organization in ensuring the highest quality of security management for your event.
We have provided security for some of the Nation’s most prestigious events including the historic 45th Presidential Inauguration in 2009. Our security and management methodology focuses on:
Analysis
Planning
Deployment
Plan of Action
Resource management
Event timeline monitor
Vulnerability assessment
After-action event play-back
Reporting
Event Planning
Our team consists of Certified Meeting Planners (CMP) that have over 20 years of experience with planning events of all sizes. We have a long list of past performances including American College of Nurse-Midwives Annual Meetings (2000-2009), American Academy of Physician Assistant Conferences (1997-1999), Women’s Health Expo, Film Festival and Birth Symposium (2008) and the National Blue Ribbons School Ceremony at The White House.
We provide the following services:
Planning
Budget development and oversight
Information management and graphic design
Vendor negotiation and management
Logistics and planning for onsite, pre- and post-event
Exhibit and sponsor sales and management
Housing and registration
Air and ground transportation management
Audio/Visual and teleconference equipment management
Post event evaluation
For more information on these consulting services, please contact us at (301) 583-4630 or sales@transglobalbiz.com.
There are eight (8) practices that are integral to TransGlobal’s project management methodology. As a matter of standard operating procedures, TransGlobal uses these practices throughout a project’s lifecycle to ensure that the project can be implemented. It is important to note that the implementation methodology and supporting project management practices are both flexible and scalable so that they can be adapted to the specific requirements of the customer.
Scope of Work
Schedule and Time
Cost
Quality
Risk
Contracts and Procurement Management
Resource
Communications
We also include several other functional areas under the Project Management Office umbrella as listed below.
Contracts and Procurement Management
Contracts and Procurement Management includes the processes required to acquire goods and services from vendors and subcontractors and consists of procurement planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration and contract closeout.TransGlobal has extensive experience in managing programs with many large subcontracted efforts and we routinely uses subcontractors as integral members of our system integration teams. Also, we have established policies and procedures to manage these responsibilities.
Business Process Reengineering
Business process reengineering involves streamlining business processes and the development, implementation, and support of improved processes. It also includes eradicating redundancies while increasing productivity and decreasing the cost.
We focus heavily on resource management and cost management when evaluating business processes. Resource management includes the processes and skills required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project and consists of organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development. The success of any project depends upon obtaining and applying the best resources to every aspect of the project. This philosophy pervades our selection of partners, suppliers, facilities, tools and staff.
Documentation and Technical Writing
Communications management is essential throughout the life cycle of a project. Documentation and technical writing is the processes required to facilitate proper collection and dissemination of project information and consists of communication planning, information distribution, progress reporting, record retention and administration. TransGlobal utilizes established project review as well as reporting policies and procedures to satisfy the Project Manager and key stakeholders.
Throughout the life cycle we focus on developing and maintaining documentation such as:
User manuals
System documentation
Training, testing, quality assurance and contingency manuals
Technical writing for proposals, presentations, policies and procedures
Recovery procedures
Operations and maintenance manuals
Risk and Opportunity Assessment
Risk management includes the processes concerned with identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risks. The steps include risk identification, quantification, response development, and control. A structured risk-management-oriented methodology is central to TransGlobal’s proactive management approach.
Strategic Planning
In order to ensure the best processes are put in place, each organization needs to identify goals both short-term and long-term. The organization needs to have a clear understanding of where they currently are, where they want to be, and the steps that will get them there. We believe key strategic planning steps include developing long-range IT plans, IT-enabled business plans, IT investments that increase program effectiveness as well as assisting with organization-wide IT consistency in regards to plans and initiatives.
Quality Management & Assurance
Quality management includes the processes to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it is undertaken and consists of quality planning, control, and assurance. TransGlobal has a well-established reputation for designing and developing high quality products and systems on schedule and at cost.
Quality assurance includes auditing IT systems to ensure systems perform to documented specifications and include security, privacy, accuracy, business processes, customer satisfaction, and operations. We also believe in auditing the experience to either perform or validate internal QA audits for all size projects within a variety of environments.
Cost Management
Cost management includes the processes to facilitate completion within the approved budget and consists of resource planning, cost estimating, budgeting, and cost control. TransGlobal is continually assessing the cost effectiveness of our systems through the use of concurrent engineering, technology insertion, aggressive supplier negotiations, second sources, and intensive cost modeling and trades. TransGlobal’s methodology for controlling costs and schedules includes associated planning, budgeting, analysis, and reporting.
For more information on these consulting services, please contact us at (301) 583-4630 or sales@transglobalbiz.com.
TransGlobal’s solutions, SAMS and StarLight, are able to provide school systems with real-time situational awareness, incident management, data collaboration and event operations. Our solutions allow school systems to have:
