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Local Agencies Join Forces to Deploy COPLINK® Across
the Kansas City Metropolitan Area to Combat Crime and
Thwart Terrorism
TUCSON, AZ - July 22, 2008 ---
As a part of the Kansas City
Urban Area Security Initiative officials announced today
that they will use COPLINK® as a core component of their
Emerging Threat Analysis Capability (ETAC) operations.
ETAC will enable crime and threat analysis in a cross
jurisdictional manner throughout the Kansas City Metro
Area and will tie in with MoDex, a statewide Missouri
COPLINK initiative.
"We are excited to be
working with the progressive public safety leaders from
the Kansas City Metro Area to enhance the ETAC law
enforcement mission," said Knowledge Computing
Corporation CEO, Robert Griffin. "COPLINK offers local,
state and federal law enforcement officers the ability
to easily and effectively share information and provide
tactical lead generation across jurisdictional lines to
accelerate the mission of fighting crime and thwarting
terrorism. Kansas City's forward thinking public safety
leaders are setting an example of the importance of both
regional and interstate information sharing
initiatives."
Area leaders throughout this
bi-state community recognized the need to enhance the
effectiveness of local law enforcement agencies through
the sharing of information. Chief John Douglass of the
Overland Park Police Department and Chief James Corwin
of the Kansas City Missouri Police Department are chairs
of the committee that formed this consortium. Chief
Corwin said this inter-agency cooperation is necessary
to fight mobile law-breakers. "Criminals don't know
state lines," he said. "If you squeeze them in one
place, they'll go to another. ETAC will help us know
where they are and what they are doing throughout the
metro area, and it will give us the tools we need to
stop them."
The metro area straddles the
border between Missouri and Kansas. In a cooperative
response to the regional public safety need, 13
participating agencies from Missouri and Kansas have
agreed to work together toward the establishment and
maintenance of the Metro Kansas City Emerging Threat
Analysis Capability (ALERT/ETAC) initiative, which will
include a COPLINK node hosted by the Kansas City,
Missouri, Police Department. The COPLINK system will
enable authorized law enforcement personnel from each
jurisdiction to search and analyze contributing agencies
data, regardless of jurisdictional boundaries, to
develop actionable, tactical leads - a process that
prior to COPLINK was not possible.
Agencies that will
contribute data to the Kansas City ALERT/ETAC COPLINK
node created and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
to facilitate the groundbreaking interstate sharing
initiative. Access to the node on a local, regional or
federal level is restricted by individual user security
clearances and by the sensitivity of the data itself,
both of which are governed by strict policy protocols
spelled out in the MOU which declares, among other
things, what data may be shared, with whom, and when.
COPLINK also creates a detailed audit trail for every
search conducted. These safeguards help protect the
integrity of the data and sensitive information while
allowing for the creation of ad hoc task forces to
address regionally specific criminal activity.
About the COPLINK
Solution Suite
COPLINK is the leading commercial-off-the-shelf
information sharing, crime analysis, tactical lead
generation, visualization and decision support solution
for fighting crime and thwarting terrorism. It enables
law enforcement to produce leads in seconds of possible
criminal suspects, relationships, and patterns by
searching known or partial facts from an investigation.
The Solution works by searching vast quantities of
structured and seemingly unrelated data - including data
currently housed in various incompatible databases and
records management systems - to be securely organized,
consolidated and rapidly analyzed, making if far more
difficult for criminals, gangs and terrorists to operate
across multiple jurisdictions undetected. Because of the
COPLINK's modular components and tier based pricing
structure, the software is available to and customizable
for sworn populations of all sizes.
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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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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