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Fla. law
enforcement to use COPLINK tools
Government Computing News
by Trudy Walsh
09/26/07
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Florida's Regional Law Enforcement eXchange
(R-LEX) project will use COPLINK crime analysis tools from Knowledge
Computing, the company said today.
Using a Global Justice XML Data Model-compliant interface, COPLINK
allows large amounts of data in many disparate forms to be organized,
consolidated and analyzed over a secure browser-based platform. The
software also makes use of analytics and visualization tools to help law
enforcement officials determine patterns of crime.
R-LEX will be accessible only to authorized law enforcement
investigators, detectives, line officers and crime analysts. The Florida
Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), 11 state criminal justice agencies
and three of Florida's seven domestic-security task force regions will
contribute data from 160 sources, including traffic citations, pawn
data, dispatch records and local warrants.
Plans for R-LEX involve connecting four remaining regions, including
Tampa. This future project, called FLEX, will work with FDLE, state
agencies and Florida's seven regions.
R-LEX will use metadata mapping tools from Sypherlink, which will map
data to a central NIEM-compliant warehouse hub built by system
integrator Keane. The hub will in turn feed into COPLINK.
The project is funded primarily through grants from the Homeland
Security Department.
Project manager Mike Phillips, who oversees the Florida Law Enforcement
eXchange (FLEX) initiative, described R-LEX as "a powerful tool for
fighting crime across multiple jurisdictions statewide, and it's among
the first to incorporate the National Information Exchange Model
standards, which create greater flexibility for sharing critical
information between local, state and federal law enforcement."
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