"That’s now changing, thanks to the Law Enforcement National Data Exchange, or N-DEx.
N-DEx is what you might expect: a national information-sharing system available through a secure Internet site for law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. N-DEx allows agencies to search and analyze data using some powerful automated capabilities, helping to connect the dots between people, places, and events.
Given its experience with such systems, our Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia was asked by the Department of Justice to develop and maintain N-DEx in close consultation with our law enforcement partners.
Following a successful prototype, we launched the first phase of N-DEx last month to a controlled number of agencies. Right now, the system includes several basic but vital capabilities, including searching and correlating incident/case report information and arrest data to help resolve entities (determining a person’s true identity despite different aliases, addresses, etc.). N-DEx will also create link analysis charts to assist in criminal investigations and identify potential terrorist activity.
Once fully operational and fully deployed in 2010, N-DEx will include a full range of capabilities, including:
Nationwide searches from a single access point;
Searches by “modus operandi” and for clothing, tattoos, associates, cars, etc.—linking individuals, places, and things;
Notifications of similar investigations and suspects;
Identification of criminal activity hotspots and crime trends;
Threat level assessments of individuals and addresses; and
Visualization and mapping features."
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