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Continuing Your Investigations
in the Age of Covid
Agencies across the nation are currently working hard to find
ways to limit an officer’s exposure to the COVID-19 virus
while continuing to serve the needs of the communities.
This includes responding to in-progress events only and driving the
community to file online reports for all other incidents. This new
approach to law enforcement greatly helps to limit the exposure of
officers, however, it creates a true data problem.
Information is key to solving a case, removing a violent offender,
and keeping an officer safe from harm. With reporting moving to an
online base, law enforcement needs to make greater use of technology
and solutions that help them use data to drive investigations and
reduce crime.
Discover how technology and information can
help law enforcement reduce crime during a global
pandemic by providing the following.
• Remote access to critical investigative information from
within the department and across the country
• Information and technology available from any web-enabled
device, for the entire department, to increase efficiency
despite limiting resources
• Powerful visualizations that provide actionable insights,
in real-time, to identify crime trends and prevent criminal
activity
Remote Access to Critical Information
With many officers working remotely and avoiding in-person investigations
whenever possible, law enforcement needs the ability to
access critical information at any time and from any location. When
solving crimes, every second counts.
With Forensic Logic’s police database software, COPLINK X, your
investigators and patrol officers can access relevant, actionable information
from any web-based device. The ability to quickly search
COPLINK X for leads and suspects helps your officers make more
informed decisions and solve crimes more quickly all while limiting
an officer’s exposure to COVID-19.
With over 1 billion agency records, COPLINK X holds the most
powerful network of law enforcement information in the country.
You can access a wide range of data, including court data, evidence,
and lab data, NIBIN shell casing reports, mugshots, probation and
parole information, warrants, CrimeDex alerts, BOLOs, vehicular
data and the universe of Thomson Reuters CLEAR records.
Increase Efficiency Despite Limiting Resources
Social distancing restrictions have created even more difficulties for
law enforcement as their resources have become further reduced
in an effort to limit officer exposure to the virus. Quick access to
relevant information improves situational awareness for law enforcement
users at all levels. As a result, law enforcement can collaborate
more effectively and solve crimes more quickly. This allows them to
not only use current resources more efficiently, solving more crime
with few officers on the streets, but it also frees up limited resources
to solve other cases and prevent more crime.
COPLINK X’s key performance indicators help agencies conduct
more effective statistical analysis across all available data. A collection
of geographic information systems, statistical graphs, charting and
analytical tools work with the rich database to help agencies leverage
their data and better allocate resources.
Powerful Visualizations and Actionable Insights
In addition to finding relevant information, law enforcement needs
to be able to quickly make sense of it. That’s why we’ve integrated
our powerful search capabilities and COPLINK’s advanced analytics
and reporting within COPLINK X.
By centralizing and applying complex analytics across multiple data
sets, COPLINK X provides customized reporting and can help your
staff identify patterns, anomalies, and outliers:
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