Pennysylvania Police chases intelligence s/w

USA: The Pennsylvania State Police has upgraded its criminal intelligence system that will enable it to manage and retrieve intelligence that prevents all scales of crime, and will enable law enforcement to efficiently predict, prevent and respond to threats in real-time. This comes as an upgrade to Memex Patriarch software and also making the platform accessible to hundreds of state law enforcement officials over the Web.

The new set-up expands the availability and usability of intelligence through configurable software, flexible workflow management, multi-level security and a robust platform for information sharing, says a press note.

The Pennsylvania State Police also was the first Statewide Memex customer to deploy and use Memex Patriarch on the Web, which is an advanced operational intelligence system that enables the secure input, management, development, analysis and information sharing of critical data across organizations and their partners.

“We’ve seen a rise in information sharing and collaboration since upgrading to Memex Patriarch and rolling it out on the Web,” said Major George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police. “Our hope is to bring yet more information from our existing data silos under this new platform for accessibility by our Fusion/Criminal Intelligence Center, Watch Center, and all State Police officers.”

Serving a state population of 12.5 million people, the Pennsylvania State Police accesses intelligence data via the Web through Memex’s single source portal – whether officials are in their cars or at their desks. Memex Patriarch also has been integrated with the Pennsylvania State Police’s Officer Safety and 24/7 Situational Awareness initiatives.

“We have been working with the Pennsylvania State Police since 1999, and the agency has the distinction as our first State customer in the U.S.,” said David Carrick, CEO of Memex. “The Memex system is the foundation for hundreds of Pennsylvania state troopers, even those in remote locations, to access important intelligence data for doing their jobs.”