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COPLINK Expands
Across Arizona Helping Law Enforcement Thwart Criminal and Gang
Activity Across Multiple Jurisdictions
IACP, New Orleans,
LA and Tucson, AZ 10/12/07
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Knowledge Computing Corp. today announced
that its award-winning COPLINK® solution suite will be deployed to
support the East Valley Gang and Crime Information Fusion Center in
Mesa, Arizona. This follows successful deployments in Tucson, Pima
County, Phoenix and Maricopa County that support law enforcement
agencies in those and other neighboring jurisdictions as well as
cross-jurisdictional crime solving initiatives. The announcement was
made today in conjunction with the 114th Annual International
Association of Police Chiefs (IACP) conference in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
"COPLINK's first commercial deployment in the Tucson Police Department
five years ago, and the successes they've achieved in solving crime and
thwarting gang activity, have inspired over 600 jurisdictions nationwide
across 20 states to adopt COPLINK," said Robert Griffin, CEO of
Knowledge Computing Corp. "We are pleased to support the efforts of the
East Valley Gang and Crime Information Fusion Center to combat crime and
gang activity across their jurisdictions and to have another major
deployment in our home state."
"Gangs and criminals are more mobile today than ever, making it far more
difficult to detect the scope of their operations and apprehend them,"
said Mesa Police Chief George Gascón." COPLINK turns the tables by
giving law enforcement the advantage, identifying relationships,
associations and patterns that will help us reduce criminal and gang
activity across the East Valley by getting offenders off the street
faster."
"In Tucson, COPLINK has been an essential tool in our arsenal from the
detective's desk - to the patrol car - to officer's on the beat who use
hand-held devices - rapidly identifying suspects from petty to violent
crimes," said Tucson Police Department's ISD Administrator James Wysocki.
"A study conducted by the Tucson Police Department shows that COPLINK
annually creates a return on investment that vastly exceeds the
investment we made in the program."
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 currently supports 19 law enforcement agencies across Arizona
that participate through deployments in Tucson, Pima County, Phoenix and
Maricopa County. With the addition of the East Valley Gang and Crime
Information Fusion Center, COPLINK will also provide support to
jurisdictions across the East Valley region to thwart crime and gang
activity.
Currently, the Tucson and Phoenix Police Departments are also able to
share information through their COPLINK deployments. In addition, Tucson
has interagency agreements with San Diego, California's Automated
Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) and the Orange County,
California Integrated Law and Justice Consortium (OCILJ) that allow
participating agencies to share information across their COPLINK
deployments. These interagency networks make it far more difficult for
criminals and gangs to operate across multiple jurisdictions undetected
and have enabled participating agencies to increase their effectiveness
in getting violent and repeat offenders off the street.
When COPLINK is used to create regional or statewide 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, with automatic refresh mechanisms triggering
updates within COPLINK. 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 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 600 jurisdictions
nationwide spanning across 20 states, 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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