Law Enforcement Software enhances CAD reporting.
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COPLINK® Solution Suite® provides analysis and decision support for identifying criminal suspects, relationships, and crime patterns. Exceeding traditional Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) reporting tools, Dashboard® management and notification module migrates real-time data streams into configurable interface. It also includes alert and geographic monitoring features as well as support for multiple simultaneous region views.
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Knowledge Computing Corporation Introduces Dashboard to Further Extend COPLINK® Within the Law Enforcement Continuum
TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 5 -- Knowledge Computing Corporation (KCC), makers of the award winning COPLINK Solution Suite (R), today announced a new module called Dashboard(R). This and several other new technology offerings from the software company will be unveiled in San Diego at the 2008 International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference (IACP), November 9-11.
COPLINK Dashboard is a management and notification module that migrates real time data streams, such as Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), into a configurable interface. Dashboard goes beyond traditional CAD reporting tools by including alert and geographic monitoring features, as well as allowing multiple simultaneous views of a region.
Dashboard will allow a managing officer to set a notification alert when a threshold of calls for service is reached in a certain area within a set amount of time. The area and time specifications are chosen by the user and multiple alert thresholds may be set with a variety of parameters. "For example, a commander may want to monitor burglaries that occur within two hours of each other inside the boundaries of a particular beat," explains KCC Director of Engineering, William Oliver. "In the event the threshold set for this area is reached, perhaps three burglaries within 6 hours, the commander will be notified. This feature will allow officers, in this example a watch commander, to know in real time when and where additional resources may be needed."
In addition to the alert capability, Dashboard has configurable panels that simultaneously display dispatches in a variety of ways including: a categorical analysis chart that lists call types according to UCR dispatch codes, such as aggravated assault, domestic violence and robbery; a scrolling log that shows type of call, time of call, and location of incident, all in the form of text; and a GIS mapping panel that shows dispatches graphically by plotting each call geospatially.
"Being aware of dangerous situations at their onset is imperative to law enforcement," said Robert Fund, Lieutenant Tucson Police Department (RET) and COPLINK Product Manager. "Dashboard will allow our clients to view dispatches graphically and in real time. This is critical not only from a command standpoint regarding resource deployment and preparedness, but also for the security of responding officers and the surrounding community."
Dashboard 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.
Knowledge Computing Corporation CEO Robert Griffin said, "COPLINK software addresses the needs of officers at every stage of the Law Enforcement Continuum. We have expanded our support of this concept by creating and offering Dashboard. For over ten years and 1600 deployments our mission at KCC has remained the same: stay focused on client-driven solutions and provide top quality performance enhancement tools. Along with several other new modules that we will be demonstrating at IACP, Dashboard is another example of our commitment to every phase of local, regional and national security."
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.
CONTACT: Lindsey Shaffer, Marketing and Communications of Knowledge Computing Corporation, +1-520-574-1519, LShaffer@coplink.com
