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Colorado to Deploy COPLINK® in a Statewide Law
Enforcement and Public Safety Information Sharing
Initiative
TUCSON, AZ - October 23, 2008 --- The State of
Colorado, through the efforts of the Colorado
Information Sharing Consortium (CISC), is the most
recent of several states to announce the implementation
of an initiative that will deploy the award winning
COPLINK® Solution Suite statewide. The software made by
Knowledge Computing Corporation (KCC) is used for
tactical lead generation and allows comprehensive
information sharing and collaboration among local,
regional, state and national law enforcement and public
safety agencies.
Aurora Chief of Police Dan
Oates has been involved in the project since its
inception. "Because of the mobile nature of criminal
activity, sharing information across jurisdictional
lines has become imperative for effective law
enforcement," said Oates. "With COPLINK, agencies all
across Colorado will be able to analyze information not
only from their own databases but from any number of
databases across the state. This will give the officers
of Colorado an effective tool to get criminals off the
street faster."
"Having a highly visible
COPLINK deployment in Colorado is a key cornerstone in
the Rocky Mountain States that furthers our goal to
build the first nationwide crime-fighting network," said
Robert Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing Corporation.
"The widespread adoption of proven, commercial
off-the-shelf solutions that can be rapidly deployed
like COPLINK can dramatically enhance our nation's
safety."
The CISC is the governing
board of the COPLINK implementation initiative and is
comprised of the following seven public safety leaders,
or "core partners": Adams County Sheriff's Office,
Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, Aurora Police
Department, Colorado Bureau of Investigation (a branch
of the Colorado Department of Public Safety), Denver
Police Department, Douglas County Sheriff's Office, and
Grand Junction Police Department.
A pro forma cost model was
created and agreed to by the consortium. Because it was
structured after the long standing tier-based pricing
used by KCC, the CISC was able to secure a single
license fee for the software to cover use by the sworn
law enforcement population of the entire state. This
means that even the smallest offices in Colorado will be
in a position to have access to and take advantage of
this advanced crime fighting and information sharing
technology. In addition to the core partners, several
other agencies have already taken advantage of the
opportunity and signed up to join the project. COPLINK
will be fully operational in the majority of these
outfits by the end of 2008.
COPLINK provides
unparalleled analysis and decision support by rapidly
identifying criminal suspects, relationships and
patterns that help solve crime and thwart terrorism. 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 organized, consolidated and
rapidly analyzed over a highly secure intranet-based
platform.
About Knowledge Computing
Corporation
Knowledge Computing Corp. provides technology-based
crime-fighting and information sharing solutions to
leading edge law enforcement agencies nationwide. Its
critically-acclaimed COPLINK Solution, 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 over 1600 law
enforcement agencies around the country - including four
of the nation's five largest cities. COPLINK software is
compliant with CFR part 23, as well as local, state,
federal and inter-agency laws and policies governing
information sharing for law enforcement purposes. For
more information: www.knowledgecc.com or
www.coplink.com.
Contact Person: Lindsey
Shaffer
Company Name: Knowledge Computing Corporation
Telephone Number: 520-574-1519
Fax Number: 520-574-0870
Email Address: lshaffer@coplink.com
Web site address: www.coplink.com
www.knowledgecc.com
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made in this press release which relate to future plans,
expectations, etc., including but not limited to
statements with words like "anticipates", "expects",
"will", as well as any other similar expressions, amount
to forward -looking statements. Knowledge Computing
Corporation may decide to update these statements - as
actual results may vary - however denies any obligation
to do so. The forward-looking statements in this press
release represent Knowledge Computing Corporation's view
as of July 22, 2008, and should not be relied upon
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