The New York Police Department has finally entered the 21st century, and they have done it with…Windows Phones?

That’s right. The largest municipal police force in the United States has issued a smartphone to each of New York’s finest, who have incorporated the devices into their daily policing duties. But why Windows Phones? And what benefits have they brought the department?

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What exactly is the deal? Matt Weinberger has the details:

In 2014, the New York Police Department announced an initiative to give…its 36,000 officers a Windows Phone, as part of an effort to modernize the force.
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That deployment is complete as of this week: All 36,000 NYPD officers are now rocking a Lumia 830…or a Lumia 640 XL…running the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system.

But why Windows Phones? Horia Ungureanu gives us the background:

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