Now Accepting Nominations for Law Enforcement Technology & Law Enforcement Product News INNOVATION Awards Program; Cygnus Business Media's Law Enforcement Group Seeking Products That Changed the Industry

Business Wire, May 22, 2006

FORT ATKINSON, Wis. -- Law Enforcement Technology, the leading magazine for law enforcement management for 32 years, in tandem with Law Enforcement Product News, the industry's most comprehensive product information tabloid, announce a call for entries in the 2006 Law Enforcement Technology & Law Enforcement Product News INNOVATION Awards program. This prestigious program recognizes outstanding companies whose products have best responded to law enforcement's market challenges by offering creative and forward-thinking ideas. The ability to anticipate how technology will change, and how products must evolve to stay current is a hallmark of the best companies.

Divided into 16 product categories, the Law Enforcement Technology & Law Enforcement Product News INNOVATION Awards will be judged by a distinguished panel of law enforcement personnel who will evaluate each of the entries on six criteria:

--Innovation

--Ease of use

--Cost effectiveness

--Quality contribution

--Maintainability

--Productivity improvements

Award winners will be honored at a special ceremony and reception being held on Sunday, October 15, during the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

Companies are invited to nominate their products for this most prestigious award. Products introduced between July 1, 2005, and May 15, 2006, will be eligible for this year's awards. To include a product in the competition, companies must submit a completed entry form for each individual product entered. Forms are available by contacting Sam Simon at sam.simon@cygnusb2b.com or calling (920) 568-8319. All entries are due by June 2, 2006.

Law Enforcement Technology (LET) and Law Enforcement Product News (LEPN) are published by Cygnus Business Media, a leader in business-to-business media. LET is a monthly publication with the industry's highest qualified audience of law enforcement decision-makers. Reaching more than 30,000 middle- and upper-management personnel, this magazine is written with the law enforcement manager in mind and concentrates on emerging trends and technological advances being made in the field of law enforcement today. LEPN is the industry-leading product information magazine. Serving more than 30,000 industry insiders -- from upper management to line officers -- this bi-monthly, tabloid-sized publication provides the product purchasing information officers need. Editorial content features product releases ranging from communications, computers and software to vehicles, uniforms, tactical, weaponry and more. For more information on the 2006 Law Enforcement Technology & Law Enforcement Product News INNOVATION Awards, contact Sam Simon at 920-568-8319, sam.simon@cygnusb2b.com.

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