COPLINK® Adds Powerful New INTEL LEAD® Module
to Its Crime Fighting and Intelligence Solution Suite

IACP Conference
Miami, FL/Tucson, AZ
September 25, 2005

Law enforcement agencies at the local, tribal, state and federal level now have a powerful new tool in their arsenal for fighting crime and thwarting terrorism. Knowledge Computing Corporation today announced the introduction of INTEL LEAD® - an enhanced analytical application that enables law enforcement to more effectively share information and tease qualified leads out of raw data at the earliest stages of criminal and intelligence investigations. The announcement was made in conjunction with the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference.

"The new INTEL LEAD module was developed in direct response to our customers' goals to eliminate barriers to information sharing, particularly at the earliest stages of investigations when timely information and tactical analytics are most critical to thwarting illegal activity," said Robert Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing Corporation. "INTEL LEAD is particularly applicable to the needs of statewide criminal intelligence and anti-terrorism fusion centers as well as federal agencies who need to bridge the intelligence gap."

INTEL LEAD is an acronym for Intelligent Law Enforcement Actionable Data. It works by allowing law enforcement to enter information from active investigations into a segregated database that will continuously search across multiple databases in the COPLINK node to identify relationships and patterns relevant to the investigation. Active alerts instantly notify the appropriate law enforcement contact whenever new information relevant to their investigation becomes available. This increases the ability of users to effectively manage large case loads where sometimes there are only small threads of intelligence that could otherwise fall through the cracks and become cold cases.

On September 16, 2005, a police officer on routine patrol observed a person of middle-eastern descent taking photographs of the Agrium US ammonium nitrate production facility in Homestead, Nebraska. The individual had a California drivers license in the name of Abraham Buran, date of birth 09/25/1972 and an address of 423 Hillt St Apt#7204, Santa Monica, California. When questioned by the officer, Buran stated he was an agricultural engineering student at Cal Tech and was interested in the fertilizer plant from a professional interest. The officer completed a field interview and observation report which was forwarded to the Homeland Security office in Lincoln. Buran was associated with a 1996 Ford Probe, silver in color, with California vanity plate CALKET9. The registration showed the vehicle to be registered to a Mohammed Zelbezed, who Buran claimed was a fellow student who let him borrow his car.

An analyst entered the information using COPLINK Intel L.E.A.D. and in doing so ran a query on the information to see if any was previously entered. The analyst found a report from the Cherry County, Nebraska Sheriff's Office. This report was dated September 14, 2005. The report was of a person of middle eastern descent who was taking photographs of Merritt Reservoir from Powderhorn Trail. This person was driving a 1996 Ford Probe, silver in color, with California license CALKET9. The person presented a California drivers license in the name of Mohammed Zelbezed, DOB 09/25/1972 with an address of 53001 Wallace Rd, Woodland Hills, CA. Zelbezed claimed he was a hydrology student at Cal Tech and taking pictures for a class report.

A check of Zelbezed and Buran with LAPD showed that both had a record. While Buran was described a Hispanic male, Zelbezed was an African-American male. Zelbezed also had an association with a person by the name of Najid Khan, who was a terrorist watch list. Khan was indicated in a plot to blow Maryland gasoline filling stations.

With INTEL LEAD, data entered into the module is fully segregated from other data sources integrated into the COPLINK node to ensure source integrity. A series of easy to use pull down menus that qualify the data such as source type, content validity and source reliability combined with supervisory approval, group or individual access restrictions, and automated auditing and purging mechanisms ensure full compliance with 28 CFR Part 23 regulations and other privacy and legal considerations that govern the use of intelligence data by or between local, tribal, state and federal agencies.

INTEL LEAD is designed to 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.

One search using known or partial facts from an ongoing investigation can produce qualified leads that would otherwise be unapparent in seconds - a process that prior to COPLINK wasn't possible at all or often took days or weeks to accomplish. Through sophisticated analytics, COPLINK builds 'institutional memory,' reduces knowledge gaps and prevents criminals from falling through the cracks. With INTEL LEAD, the solution is far more powerful.

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 130 jurisdictions nationwide from Boston to San Diego helping police officers fight crime 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 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.