Local Agencies Join Forces to Deploy COPLINK(R) Across the Kansas City Metropolitan...

Local Agencies Join Forces to Deploy COPLINK(R) Across the Kansas City
Metropolitan Area to Combat Crime and Thwart Terrorism

TUCSON, Ariz., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- As a part of the Kansas City Urban
Area Security Initiative officials announced today that they will use
COPLINK(R) 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:
http://www.knowledgecc.com or http://www.coplink.com.
Any statements 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 beyond that date.
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: http://www.coplink.com http://www.knowledgecc.com

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Lindsey Shaffer of Knowledge Computing Corporation, +1-520-574-1519, Fax,
+1-520-574-0870, lshaffer@coplink.com