Editing BlackBerry (section)

=== Use by government forces ===
An example is the [[West Yorkshire Police]], which allowed the increase in the presence of police officers along the streets and a reduction in public spending, given that each officer could perform desk work directly via the mobile device,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackberry.com/products/pdfs/WYP_CS.pdf |title=West Yorkshire Police Increase Visibility and Productivity with BlackBerry |website=BlackBerry |access-date=August 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060842/http://www.blackberry.com/products/pdfs/WYP_CS.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as in several other areas and situations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://us.blackberry.com/newsroom/success/ |title=BlackBerry Customer Success |website=BlackBerry |access-date=November 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623013846/http://us.blackberry.com/newsroom/success/ |archive-date=June 23, 2012}}</ref> The US Federal Government was slow to move away from the BlackBerry platform, a [[United States Department of State|State Department]] spokesperson saying in 2013 that BlackBerry devices were still the only mobile devices approved for [[List of diplomatic missions of the United States|U.S. missions abroad]] by the State Department.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/blackberrys-hope-lies-in-slow-poke-federal-washington/2013/09/25/61b304ee-2610-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story.html |title=BlackBerry still reigns in Washington, slow-poke capital of the world |last=Kang |first=Cecilia |date=2013-09-25 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2018-05-08 |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> The [[FIPS 140-2|high encryption standard]] that made BlackBerry smartphones and the [[BlackBerry PlayBook|PlayBook]] tablet unique, have since been implemented in other devices,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Validated 140-1 and 140-2 Cryptographic Modules |url=http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm |website=Computer Security Resource Center |access-date=September 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226152243/http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm |archive-date=December 26, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> including most Apple devices released after the iPhone 4.
The [[Bangalore City Police]] is one of the few police departments in [[India]] along with the [[Pune Police]] and [[Kochi Police]] to use BlackBerry devices.<ref name="blorebb">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/18/stories/2008031861030300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324005805/http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/18/stories/2008031861030300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 24, 2008 |title=Use of BlackBerry devices by traffic police in city not to be affected |date=March 18, 2008 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=July 5, 2009}}</ref><ref name="iekochibb">{{cite news |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/kochi-traffic-police-go-blackberry/416576/ |title=Kochi traffic police go Blackberry |date=January 29, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Indian Express]] |access-date=May 6, 2015}}</ref>