The idea of COPsync, Inc. derived from the 25-years combined law enforcement experience of its founders Russell Chaney and Shane Rapp. Their background includes the founding of www.CARad.com in January 2000, from a start-up company to it successful acquisition by eBay, Inc. in March 2003. After the completion of the CARad.com acquisition, both Russell and Shane wanted to leverage their prior law enforcement background and their software development skills to improve the day-to-day performance of their fellow law enforcement officer. Their goal centered on how they could focus their background best to help their fellow citizens. Both knew that the officer on the street was tasked with a growing burden in their job, known as paperwork. After spending 18-months on research and development, COPsync, Inc. was launched in April, 2004. The goal of the company is to provide each law enforcement officer worldwide with additional patrol hours each week without increasing the payroll cost associated with additional or overtime hours. To accomplish this goal each officer would need to be able to patrol additional hours without physically working additional hours each week. Each knew that with the right technological advances applied to the law enforcement field, their personal goals set-forth for COPsync, Inc. could be achieved. Keeping the company focused on this goal will produce an end-result of a safer community, state and nation. Yes, it is technology to Serve and Protect but more so it also is technology specifically designed to give us a better class of living.

COPsync, Inc. was launched to fill a large void in the Law Enforcement Community. The founders and consultants of COPsync, Inc. are members of this elite community of professionals. They saw firsthand the negative implications associated with the inability of Law Enforcement Agencies to communicate with each other and failing to share information and intelligence to solve and prevent crimes. After successfully selling a prior software business, remaining all the while in the Law Enforcement arena, the timing was right to launch a technology company to eliminate the deficiencies and barriers that prevent those professionals from successfully accomplishing their mission of protecting our very lives.

The first goal of the founders was to recruit the "right" team of industry professionals to leverage their knowledge to succeed in building the right product that would improve officer safety in the performance of their duties, while promoting improved effectiveness and efficiency. These recruited professionals represent over 85+ years of combined Law Enforcement experience.

Our elite team includes:

Did You Know?

Did you know that the first concept of an ambulance was started long before automobiles were invented?  During the First Crusade in the 11th century, Knights of St. John provided first-aid treatment to wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Then, they would carry these wounded soldiers to nearby tents to further care for them. The Knights of St. John acted as modern day paramedics and ambulance drivers!