IBM’s i2 Coplink police software is moving to the cloud, enabling agencies of any size to access advanced crime analytics capabilities.
Coplink enables police officers in different states to consolidate information from several sources, aid collaboration and help generate tactical leads.
Law enforcement professionals can generate photo lineups, save their search history and organise investigations to generate reports more easily.
It is used by 6,000 police agencies in North America and hosts approximately 1.1 billion shareable documents.
IBM i2 Coplink on Cloud will allow law enforcement agencies to access data through desktops, in-vehicle mobile data computers or smart mobile devices.
Agencies can also avoid high capital expenditure costs with the help of the cloud-based model that is hosted at Nlets -the International Justice and Public Safety Network.
IBM general manager of safer planet Robert Griffin said: "Access to the vast volume of law enforcement data hosted on the cloud can increase an agency’s ability to uncover hidden relationships in data, and also can help agencies establish crime patterns outside their own region and share information across jurisdictions using security features.
"IBM’s decision to make i2 COPLINK accessible via the cloud enables the transformation of law enforcement to continue — now a department with 40 police officers can access the same data and analytics tools as a department of 40,000."
The cloud-based model is part of IBM’s Safer Planet portfolio for public safety, intelligence, cyber threat intelligence and counter fraud professionals.
