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L.A. to deploy
crime-analysis software
By Dibya Sarkar
04/28/06
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
officials are planning to use sophisticated commercial crime-analysis
software to help them piece together intelligence across millions of
records and multiple databases.
The department will deploy COPLINK technology, developed by Knowledge
Computing, based in Tucson, Ariz., through several phases. It will
initially integrate more than 50 million records across four systems.
Bob Griffin, the company's president and chief executive officer, said
the contract is valued at $1.3 million for the first phase of the
project. "We are kicking it off next week and the plan is to have it
deployed by fall," he wrote in an e-mail message.
The systems are the Los Angeles Regional Crime Information System, which
stores crime reports and arrest records for nearly half the county’s
cities, including Los Angeles; the Regional Allocation of Police
Services, which houses computer-aided dispatch information; the
Historical Automated Justice Information and Jail Booking Systems; and
the Crossroads Traffic System, which documents all county citations and
traffic accidents.
“COPLINK will increase our effectiveness in preventing and responding to
illegal activity and terrorism threats, as well as collaborating with
local, state and federal jurisdictions by instantly putting intelligence
at the fingertips of our personnel,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca
said in a prepared statement.
Officials plan on linking other information systems in Orange and San
Diego counties, both of which use COPLINK technology.
The sheriff’s department, which includes 8,100 officers and 6,000
professional staff members, is the largest such department in the world
and serves 88 cities.
COPLINK has been deployed in more than 150 jurisdictions nationwide.
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