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Orange County agencies
share databases
By Dibya Sarkar
08/12/05
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Law enforcement and justice officials
in Orange County, Calif., have started to integrate various databases to
improve information sharing in a $1.6 million project that started
earlier this year.
The first phase of the project was recently completed and linked records
management systems from five police departments and the county Superior
Court’s citation database. The second phase will link databases from the
remaining participating police and justice agencies, such as the
probation department and the district attorney’s office, by the end of
2006.
The agencies are using software called COPLINK that can analyze large
volumes of information to find trends and leads. Tucson, Ariz.-based
Knowledge Computing, which developed the software, is a prime contractor
on the Orange County Integrated Law and Justice Project. Unisys is
providing the hardware and professional services for the project.
Deloitte Consulting is providing program management and procurement
advisory services to the project.
“With COPLINK, law enforcement agencies across Orange County are able to
continuously share, analyze and act on information that contributes to
making well-informed decisions on how to deploy resources to prevent,
prepare for and respond to crime and terrorism,” Newport Beach Police
Chief Bob McDonell, who heads the project’s steering committee, said in
a prepared statement.
“It’s a powerful tool that instantly puts significant information at the
fingertips of our investigators that would otherwise be next to
impossible to assemble or analyze, and that will help solve and thwart
illegal activity across Orange County,” he added.
Knowledge Computing won the $1.6 million contract earlier this year from
a field of nine bidders. A Homeland Security Department grant is funding
the initiative.
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