Friday April 28, 11:37 am ET

TUCSON, Ariz. and LOS ANGELES, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Knowledge Computing Corporation announced today that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) -- the world's largest -- will deploy its internationally acclaimed crime-fighting and tactical intelligence solution COPLINK®. LASD is the third major COPLINK deployment in California, following successful deployments across Orange County and in San Diego for the Automated Regional Justice Information System (ARJIS) consortium of 50 local, state and federal agencies.

"LASD's decision to select COPLINK further validates our position as the trusted industry leader in providing tactical, end-to-end, analytically-driven crime-solving and homeland security solutions to the nation's leading law enforcement agencies," said Robert Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing Corporation. "We are pleased to be working with LASD to support and enhance their fundamental law enforcement mission and the significant role they play in defending our nation against terrorism."

"COPLINK will increase our effectiveness in preventing and responding to illegal activity and terrorism threats, as well as collaborating with local, state and federal jurisdictions by instantly putting intelligence at the fingertips of our personnel," said Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca. "We were impressed that sophisticated information sharing was available in one integrated package that is hands-on and easy to use."

With over 14,000 employees, including 8,100 sworn officers, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is the largest in the world, providing public safety, crime prevention and municipal police services to almost half of the 88 cities comprising the most populous county in the nation. In addition, the department is responsible for leading antiterrorism initiatives throughout a county that is larger than the combined area of the states of Delaware and Rhode Island. LASD is also responsible for managing the largest county jail system in the nation, the second largest transit police system in the nation, and oversees court security services for the largest system in California, also one of the largest in the nation.

The first phase of the LASD deployment will integrate over 50 million records from four legacy systems using COPLINK off-the-shelf integration tools. These systems include:

* The Los Angeles Regional Crime Information System (LARCIS), which
houses crime reports and arrest records for nearly half the cities in
the county, including those from the Los Angeles Police Department;

* The Regional Allocation of Police Services (RAPS), which houses
computer-aided dispatch information for all contract cities and the
unincorporated areas of the county;

* The Historical Automated Justice Information and Jail Booking Systems,
a database containing old and new jail information records; and

* The Crossroads Traffic System, which includes all county citations
and traffic accidents from both contract cities and the unincorporated
territory.


LASD envisions future phases that would link to Orange County and San Diego County COPLINK deployments, creating a law enforcement information sharing and collaboration initiative that would protect one of the largest and most populous regions in the nation. Violent and repeat criminals frequently operate across multiple jurisdictions. Collaboration with Orange County and San Diego County will make it far more difficult for criminals to stay under law enforcement's radar, further reducing the time between offences and the apprehension of criminals who operate across the state.

COPLINK provides unparalleled analysis and decision support for rapidly identifying criminal suspects, relationships and patterns that help solve crime and thwart terrorism. Using a GJXDM compliant interface, 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.

One search using known or partial facts from an ongoing investigation can produce qualified leads in seconds that would otherwise be unapparent, a process that prior to COPLINK was not possible at all or often took days or weeks to accomplish. Through sophisticated analytics, including powerful visualization tools, COPLINK builds "institutional memory," reduces knowledge gaps and prevents criminals from falling through the cracks.

COPLINK first catapulted into the national spotlight for its proof of concept role following the Montgomery County, Maryland sniper investigation. Today, the solution is in use in over 150 jurisdictions nationwide from Boston, Massachusetts to Anaheim, California, helping police officers fight crime, thwart terrorism and improve community safety.

Winner of numerous awards, COPLINK was recognized twice by the International Association of Chiefs of Police for deployments in Tucson, Arizona and across the State of Alaska. The Center for Digital Government also recognized COPLINK as one of the best of the breed and most innovative IT projects undertaken by cities in the nation.

About Knowledge Computing Corporation

Knowledge Computing Corporation provides technology-based crime-fighting solutions to leading edge law enforcement agencies nationwide. Its critically-acclaimed product, COPLINK®, 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 law enforcement agencies around the country. For more information: www.knowledgecc.com or www.coplink.com.

For additional information contact:

Amy M. Smith
WhiteOak Communications
(703) 200-8218
asmith@whiteoakcom.com

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