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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.