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COPLINK® Extends Its Crime Fighting and
Anti-Terrorism Capability with the Introduction of
Activity Correlation Technology
TUCSON, AZ - October 30, 2008 --- Knowledge
Computing Corporation (KCC), makers of the award winning
COPLINK Solution Suite ®, will unveil ACT (Activity
Correlation Technology® ), in San Diego at the 2008
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Conference, November 9-11. ACT is the latest offering in
a series of innovative enhancements that will expand the
capabilities of COPLINK to address the continued
challenges of Law Enforcement.
ACT is designed to allow an agency to automatically
monitor for suspicious and potentially dangerous
activity patterns near or associated with critical
infrastructures such as nuclear power plants, water
treatment facilities, schools and hospitals. As with all
COPLINK modules, ACT integrates seamlessly with the
COPLINK Solution Suite which is already in use at over
1600 agencies nationwide.
Captain Scott Edson of the
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said, "Because
Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) requires an officer
to suspect that the activity may be related to terrorism
before he or she files a SAR report, patterns of
behavior involving the same people and objects might
fall through the cracks. It became clear that a better
way to track and alert officers to these patterns needed
to be created and implemented with the aim to increase
the likely hood that we would intercept the dangerous
behaviors, such as those that preempt terrorist events."
"At Knowledge Computing
Corporation we are continuously innovating in direct
response to law enforcement and national security
needs," said Robert Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing
Corporation. "With ACT we offer an automated capability
that can expose seemingly unrelated activities which may
actually be part of a larger pattern."
ACT can identify numerous
types of patterns and a variety of occurrences within a
specific "buffer zone" or distance from what an agency
has deemed to be critical infrastructure. It also gives
an agency the ability to monitor an area during a given
date range, such as a specific venue for multiple weeks,
and allows monitoring of an elapsed time frame, such as
incidents that occur within six months of each other.
For example, ACT would alert an agency if individual
contact within 1000 yards of a critical infrastructure
facility increased from once a month (historically) to
four times a week; or if the same vehicle is detected
within a given distance of three different critical
infrastructure facilities during a specified time frame.
"To illustrate the use of
ACT," says William Oliver Director of Engineering for
KCC, "imagine the following scenario: A person gets a
flat tire outside of critical facility A. By itself,
this is not unusual. The officer making contact would
not see a need to file a SAR report. However, ACT would
alert the officer to the fact that the same person had
car trouble outside of critical facility B and was also
contacted when taking photographs of critical facility
C. Again, individually these events would not alarm an
officer. However, when viewed holistically, they reveal
a pattern of behavior that may warrant further action."
"In addition," says Robert
Griffin "since all COPLINK nodes can be interconnected,
agencies will be able to use the ACT module to monitor
for patterns not only locally but regionally as well. By
unveiling ACT at IACP, law enforcement officers from
across the nation and Canada will be able to see a
firsthand demonstration of this industry leading
technology."
Activity Correlation Technology will 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.
About Knowledge Computing Corporation
Since its formation in 1998, Knowledge Computing Corp.
has provided technology-based crime-fighting solutions
to leading edge law enforcement agencies nationwide.
COPLINK supports over 1600 jurisdictions nationwide.
Spanning across 20 states, and including four of the
nation's five largest cities, COPLINK is helping law
enforcement officers fight crime, thwart terrorism and
improve community safety through comprehensive
information sharing. For more information contact KCC at
520-574-1519 or www.knowledgecc.com or
www.coplink.com.
ON BEHALF OF KNOWLEDGE COMPUTING CORPORATION
Lindsey Shaffer, Marketing and Communications
Knowledge Computing Corporation
Phone: 520-574-1519
E-Mail:
LShaffer@coplink.com
Any statements made in this press release which relate
to future plans, expectations, etc., including but not
limited to statements that consist of words such as
"anticipates", "expects", "will", as well as any other
similar expression, 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 represent our view as of
October 30, 2008, and should not be relied upon beyond
that date.
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