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California's ARJIS Deploys
COPLINK
To Support Crime
Fighting Efforts Between
San Diego, Tucson and Phoenix
2/20/04
San Diego, CA
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Knowledge Computing Corporation announced today that its critically acclaimed
crime fighting solution COPLINK will be deployed to support a major crime
fighting initiative between California's Automated Regional Justice Information
System Network (ARJIS) and police departments in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.
The initiative will support and enhance the ability to solve crimes faster that
occur within local member jurisdictions as well as those that take place across
multiple jurisdictions and state lines.
"This is a model approach for how local, regional and state law enforcement
agencies across the country can work together to solve crimes and improve
community safety," said Bob Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing Corporation.
"Unlike other approaches, the unique architecture of COPLINK respects the
autonomy of each jurisdiction and addresses legitimate privacy and legal
concerns that impact the effectiveness of law enforcement information sharing
initiatives."
Established in 1980 ARJIS is a criminal justice enterprise network utilized by
50 local, state and federal agencies in the San Diego region. The ARJISNet
secure intranet only contains public law enforcement data such as the region's
crime cases, arrests, citations, field interviews, traffic accidents, fraudulent
documents, photographs, gang information and stolen property.
With COPLINK, members of ARJIS and their respective law enforcement agencies can
now intelligently search this data to find hidden relationships between suspects
or criminal activity and identify qualified leads when there are none. One
search using known facts from an ongoing criminal investigation can produce
qualified leads in minutes -- a process that prior to COPLINK, often took days
or weeks. Through sophisticated analytics, COPLINK builds 'institutional
memory', reduces knowledge gaps, and prevents criminals from falling through the
cracks.
Pam Scanlon, Executive Director of ARJIS, stated, "COPLINK will help our law
enforcement agencies generate investigative leads, get violent and repeat
offenders off the street faster and reduce the time between the offence and the
apprehension of the criminal."
The COPLINK initiative with ARJIS also establishes law enforcement information
sharing linkages with Police Departments in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. The
crime corridor between California and Arizona is one of the most active and
fluid in the country, particularly when it comes to drug trafficking. COPLINK is
a powerful tool for combating the increasing trend of crimes that occur across
multiple jurisdictions. Like ARJIS, the Phoenix and Tucson Police Departments
will only be contributing public law enforcement data to the regional system.
When COPLINK is used to create regional information sharing networks, each
participating agency has real-time control over what data is shared, with whom
and when. In addition, data continues to reside and be updated at its existing
source. These safeguards help protect the integrity of the data and sensitive
information while allowing for the creation of ad hoc regional task forces to
address specific criminal activity.
COPLINK also creates a detailed audit trail for every search conducted. This
serves two purposes. Officers seeking to question or obtain a warrant on
suspects identified through COPLINK are able to clearly demonstrate with hard
facts how that person fits the criminal profile and how others were excluded.
The System Administrator is also able to monitor use for audit purposes to
identify any abuse that would result in suspension of a user's access privileges
under the privacy and use protocols established by each agency in accordance
with local, state and federal laws.
"Tucson has been using COPLINK for five years and it's proven to be an
incredibly effective investigative tool in helping put murderers, repeat sex
offenders and drug traffickers behind bars," said Detective Tim Petersen, of the
Tucson Police Department. "We've also been able to achieve a 7:1 labor savings
which helps Tucson keep more feet on the streets."
Designed by current and former law enforcement officials, COPLINK is tactically
sophisticated yet user-friendly. Even the most non-technical law enforcement
officials can master it in less than a day. COPLINK is deployed in over 100
jurisdictions nationwide from Boston to Los Angeles to support police officers
in fighting crime and improving community safety.
About ARJIS
The Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) is a criminal justice
enterprise network utilized by 50 local, state and federal agencies in the San
Diego region. There are over 10,000 pre-screened, authorized users generating
over 35,000 logged transactions daily. For more information:
http://www.arjis.org.
About Knowledge Computing Corporation
Knowledge Computing Corporation provides technology-based crime fighting
solutions to leading-edge law enforcement agencies nationwide. Its critically
acclaimed product, COPLINK, in use since 1998, is based on knowledge management
technology first prototyped by top-ranked researchers in the Artificial
Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson through a grant by the
National Institute of Justice. The technologies developed at Knowledge Computing
Corporation have been tested and proven by law enforcement agencies around the
country. For more information: http://www.knowledgecc.com or
http://www.coplink.net.
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