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COPLINK®
Adds Powerful New Intel LEAD®
Module to Its
Crime Fighting and
Intelligence Solution Suite
09/25/05
Miami, FL/Tucson, AZ
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Law enforcement agencies at the local,
tribal, state and federal level now have a powerful new tool in
their arsenal for fighting crime and thwarting terrorism. Knowledge
Computing Corporation today announced the introduction of Intel
LEAD® - an enhanced analytical application that enables law
enforcement to more effectively share information and tease
qualified leads out of raw data at the earliest stages of criminal
and intelligence investigations. The announcement was made in
conjunction with the International Association of Chiefs of Police
annual conference.
"The new Intel LEAD module was developed in direct response to our
customers' goals to eliminate barriers to information sharing,
particularly at the earliest stages of investigations when timely
information and tactical analytics are most critical to thwarting
illegal activity," said Robert Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing
Corporation. "Intel LEAD is particularly applicable to the needs of
statewide criminal intelligence and anti-terrorism fusion centers as
well as federal agencies who need to bridge the intelligence gap."
Intel LEAD is an acronym for Intelligent Law Enforcement Actionable
Data. It works by allowing law enforcement to enter information from
active investigations into a segregated database that will
continuously search across multiple databases in the COPLINK node to
identify relationships and patterns relevant to the investigation.
Active alerts instantly notify the appropriate law enforcement
contact whenever new information relevant to their investigation
becomes available. This increases the ability of users to
effectively manage large case loads where sometimes there are only
small threads of intelligence that could otherwise fall through the
cracks and become cold cases.
On September 16, 2005, a police officer on routine patrol observed a
person of middle-eastern descent taking photographs of the Agrium US
ammonium nitrate production facility in Homestead, Nebraska. The
individual had a California drivers license in the name of Abraham
Buran, date of birth 09/25/1972 and an address of 423 Hillt St
Apt#7204, Santa Monica, California. When questioned by the officer,
Buran stated he was an agricultural engineering student at Cal Tech
and was interested in the fertilizer plant from a professional
interest. The officer completed a field interview and observation
report which was forwarded to the Homeland Security office in
Lincoln. Buran was associated with a 1996 Ford Probe, silver in
color, with California vanity plate CALKET9. The registration showed
the vehicle to be registered to a Mohammed Zelbezed, who Buran
claimed was a fellow student who let him borrow his car.
An analyst entered the information using COPLINK Intel L.E.A.D. and
in doing so ran a query on the information to see if any was
previously entered. The analyst found a report from the Cherry
County, Nebraska Sheriff's Office. This report was dated September
14, 2005. The report was of a person of middle eastern descent who
was taking photographs of Merritt Reservoir from Powderhorn Trail.
This person was driving a 1996 Ford Probe, silver in color, with
California license CALKET9. The person presented a California
drivers license in the name of Mohammed Zelbezed, DOB 09/25/1972
with an address of 53001 Wallace Rd, Woodland Hills, CA. Zelbezed
claimed he was a hydrology student at Cal Tech and taking pictures
for a class report.
A check of Zelbezed and Buran with LAPD showed that both had a
record. While Buran was described a Hispanic male, Zelbezed was an
African-American male. Zelbezed also had an association with a
person by the name of Najid Khan, who was a terrorist watch list.
Khan was indicated in a plot to blow Maryland gasoline filling
stations.
With Intel LEAD, data entered into the module is fully segregated
from other data sources integrated into the COPLINK node to ensure
source integrity. A series of easy to use pull down menus that
qualify the data such as source type, content validity and source
reliability combined with supervisory approval, group or individual
access restrictions, and automated auditing and purging mechanisms
ensure full compliance with 28 CFR Part 23 regulations and other
privacy and legal considerations that govern the use of intelligence
data by or between local, tribal, state and federal agencies.
Intel LEAD is designed to be deployed as an enhancement to the full
COPLINK solution suite. COPLINK provides unparalleled analysis and
decision support for rapidly identifying criminal suspects,
relationships and crime patterns. It works by allowing vast
quantities of structured and seemingly unrelated 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 wasn't
possible at all or often took days or weeks to accomplish. Through
sophisticated analytics, COPLINK builds 'institutional memory,'
reduces knowledge gaps and prevents criminals from falling through
the cracks. With Intel LEAD, the solution is far more powerful.
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 130
jurisdictions nationwide from Boston to San Diego helping police
officers fight crime and improve community safety.
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 Corporation 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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