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Los
Angeles County, California Sheriff's Department Selects COPLINK®
Analytical Crime
Solving Intelligence Solution
04/28/06
Tucson, AZ/Los
Angeles, CA
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Knowledge Computing Corporation announced
today that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) - the
world's largest - will deploy its internationally acclaimed
crime-fighting and tactical intelligence solution COPLINK. LASD is the
third major COPLINK deployment in California, following successful
deployments across Orange County and in San Diego for the Automated
Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) consortium of 50 local,
state and federal agencies.
"LASD's decision to select COPLINK further validates our position as the
trusted industry leader in providing tactical, end-to-end,
analytically-driven crime-solving and homeland security solutions to the
nation's leading law enforcement agencies," said Robert Griffin, CEO of
Knowledge Computing Corporation. "We are pleased to be working with LASD
to support and enhance their fundamental law enforcement mission and the
significant role they play in defending our nation against terrorism."
"COPLINK will increase our effectiveness in preventing and responding to
illegal activity and terrorism threats, as well as collaborating with
local, state and federal jurisdictions by instantly putting intelligence
at the fingertips of our personnel," said Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee
Baca. "We were impressed that sophisticated information sharing was
available in one integrated package that is hands-on and easy to use."
With over 14,000 employees, including 8,100 sworn officers, the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department is the largest in the world,
providing public safety, crime prevention and municipal police services
to almost half of the 88 cities comprising the most populous county in
the nation. In addition, the department is responsible for leading
antiterrorism initiatives throughout a county that is larger than the
combined area of the states of Delaware and Rhode Island. LASD is also
responsible for managing the largest county jail system in the nation,
the second largest transit police system in the nation, and oversees
court security services for the largest system in California, also one
of the largest in the nation.
The first phase of the LASD deployment will integrate over 50 million
records from four legacy systems using COPLINK off-the-shelf integration
tools. These systems include:
The Los Angeles Regional Crime Information System (LARCIS), which houses
crime reports and arrest records for nearly half the cities in the
county, including those from the Los Angeles Police Department:
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The Regional Allocation of Police
Services (RAPS), which houses computer-aided dispatch information
for all contract cities and the unincorporated areas of the county,
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The Historical Automated Justice
Information and Jail Booking Systems, a database containing old and
new jail information records, and
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The Crossroads Traffic System, which
includes all county citations and traffic accidents from both
contract cities and the unincorporated territory.
LASD envisions future phases that would
link to Orange County and San Diego County COPLINK deployments, creating
a law enforcement information sharing and collaboration initiative that
would protect one of the largest and most populous regions in the
nation. Violent and repeat criminals frequently operate across multiple
jurisdictions. Collaboration with Orange County and San Diego County
will make it far more difficult for criminals to stay under law
enforcement's radar, further reducing the time between offences and the
apprehension of criminals who operate across the state.
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, 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 in seconds that would otherwise be
unapparent, a process that prior to COPLINK was not possible at all or
often took 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 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 150 jurisdictions
nationwide from Boston, Massachusetts to Anaheim, California, helping
police officers fight crime, thwart terrorism 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 the 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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