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COPLINK
Deployed to Boost Crime Solving and Anti-Terrorism
Initiatives at the Chicago Police Department's Crime Center
10/03/07
Tucson, AZ
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One of the nation's largest metropolitan
police departments has just exponentially increased its ability to fight
crime and thwart terrorism with powerful and proven force-multiplier
technology. Knowledge Computing Corp. today announced that its
award-winning COPLINK Solution Suite is fully deployed at the Chicago
Police Department's Crime Center.
"COPLINK's outstanding performance in over 550 jurisdictions across the
country, and its proven ability to meet and exceed the demands of the
most sophisticated intelligence led-policing initiatives like Chicago's
is fueling the company's rapid growth," said Robert Griffin, CEO of
Knowledge Computing Corp. "We are pleased to support the Crime Center's
efforts to increase its effectiveness in thwarting crime and terrorism
with COPLINK's tactical lead generation and actionable intelligence
capabilities."
The Chicago Police Department is the largest police department in the
Midwest and the second largest in the United States, with 13,500 sworn
police officers. The Crime Center serves as the nucleus of one of the
largest law enforcement information sharing initiatives in the country,
providing 411 police departments and criminal justice agencies in
Illinois, Northwest Indiana and elsewhere with real-time access to over
5.8 million law enforcement records.
"COPLINK's ability to instantly detect non-obvious relationships,
associations and patterns to generate actionable investigative leads
will reduce the time it takes to identify and apprehend criminal or
terrorism suspects," said Interim Superintendent Dana V. Starks. "This
will enable us to build on the successes we've already achieved at the
Crime Center in thwarting criminals who operate across multiple
jurisdictions in an attempt to avoid detection."
COPLINK provides unparalleled analysis and decision support for rapidly
identifying criminal suspects, relationships and patterns that help
solve crime and thwart terrorism. Using a GJXDM compliant interface, it
works by allowing vast quantities of structured and seemingly unrelated
data - including data currently housed in various incompatible databases
and records management systems - to be securely organized, consolidated
and rapidly analyzed over a highly secure intranet-based platform.
One search using known or partial facts from an ongoing investigation
can produce qualified leads that would otherwise be unapparent in
seconds - a process that prior to COPLINK was not possible or often
takes days or weeks to accomplish. Through sophisticated analytics,
including powerful visualization tools, COPLINK builds "institutional
memory," reduces knowledge gaps and prevents criminals from falling
through the cracks.
COPLINK will be used for law enforcement purposes only, utilizing public
data from the Chicago Crime Center's Illinois Citizen and Law
Enforcement Analysis and Reporting System data warehouse, known as
I-CLEAR. I-CLEAR houses over 5.8 million arrest records from the Chicago
Police Department and 130 Cook County law enforcement agencies. Data
will continue to reside and be updated within I-CLEAR to protect the
integrity of the data and sensitive information.
COPLINK first catapulted into the national spotlight for its proof of
concept role following the Montgomery County, Maryland sniper
investigation. Today, the solution is in use in over 550 jurisdictions
nationwide including four of the nation's five largest cities, helping
police officers fight crime, thwart terrorism and improve community
safety. A powerful force multiplier, COPLINK is documented as
conservatively providing a 14:1 investigative time advantage, reducing
the time it takes to identify qualified suspects, thereby enabling law
enforcement to keep more feet on the streets.
Winner of numerous awards, COPLINK was recognized twice by the
International Association of Chiefs of Police for deployments in Tucson,
Arizona and across the State of Alaska. The Center for Digital
Government also recognized COPLINK as one of the best-of-breed and most
innovative IT projects undertaken by cities in the nation.
About Knowledge Computing Corporation
Knowledge Computing Corp. 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: www.knowledgecc.com or www.coplink.com.
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