|  | The Capital Wireless Information Net (CapWIN) has seen a  rise of new agencies that have signed up for CapWIN?s services since July. From  July to the end of December CapWIN has had 15 new agencies join its ever  growing community of first responders and other users. The new agencies to join CapWIN are: Camp Peary Police  Department, Allegany County Bureau of Police, Garrett County Sheriff?s, Maryland  Transportation Authority Operation Center, Oxford Police Department, Queen  Anne?s County Sheriff?s, Queen Anne County Emergency Services, St. Michael?s Police  Department, Trappe Police Department, Talbot County Emergency Services,  Frostburg Police Department, Rockhall Police Department, National Security Agency  Police Department, Maryland Department of Natural Resources (had been  inactive), and the American Red Cross. About CapWIN
   The Capital Wireless Information Net (CapWIN) is a regional  Public Safety and Transportation Coalition supported by the Department of Civil  and Environmental Engineering?s Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT)  at the University   of Maryland?s A. James  Clark School of Engineering. Developed and governed by a regional group of  public safety and transportation officials, the CapWIN system includes an  application suite enabling: 1) incident coordination across agencies, regions,  disciplines and at all levels of government; 2) secure one-to-one and group  messaging as well as a skill-based searchable directory of individual first  responders; and 3) access to operational data/resources, including regional  transportation data and multiple state/federal law enforcement criminal  databases, driver?s license photos, state and federal mug shots of wanted  persons, violent gang members, and registered sex offenders. For more information regarding CapWIN, please contact Carly  Keane at 301.403.4601 or at ckeane@umd.edu.  Please visit the CapWIN website at www.capwin.org and the CapWIN Training  Website at http://www.capwintraining.org. 
 December 18, 2008
 
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