# Presentation: 777659

## GJXDM Users Conference

**FINDER – Law Enforcement Data Sharing**

## Agenda

- What is FINDER (Project Description)
- Current Project Status
- Recent Accomplishments
- Problems Encountered
- Anticipated Results and Timeline

## What is FINDER ?

- Florida Integrated Network for Data Exchange and Retrieval
- Software and Network that allows agencies to share data.
- Managed, designed, and built for the Law Enforcement Data Sharing Consortium
- Users drive the software.

## Domestic Security and Crime Control

**Through A**
**Law Enforcement**
**Partnership**

**Domestic Security and Crime Control**

## What is the 

- Sheriff’s Offices and Municipal Police Departments
- working with an interdisciplinary _team_ from the University
- of Central Florida’s, Public Safety Technology Center.
- It is the committed consensus of these motivated public
- partners that Florida create a cost effective data
- sharing capability that can assist law enforcement
- agencies in the exchange of relevant information in near
- real time.
- Unanimously endorsed by the **Florida Sheriff’s Association**
- and the **Florida Police Chief’s Association****.**

**What is the **
**Law Enforcement Data Sharing Consortium?**

**     **
**The Law Enforcement Data Sharing Consortium**

**It has been developed to be an Information Exchange Infrastructure with the ability to provide expanded law enforcement  tools to address crime control and domestic security**

## Advantages of a Consortium Approach

** ****The venture is a non-profit partnership between state university**
**  ****research personnel and participating law enforcement agencies**

** ****Costs are minimized through the application of public university **
**  ****research resources and participating government agencies **

** ****Customization can be done cost effectively.**
** ****Member agencies of the Consortium dictate how the program is **
**  ****developed and what functionalities it will have.**

**Notes:**
This program is open source, non-proprietary, and totally owned by member agencies.

It uses the US Office of Justice XML Standards Initiative for The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiatie of the US Dept of Justice, Office of Justice Programs XML Data Model 

Each agencies’ IT staff works directly with the programmers and other agencies’ IT staff to continue the development of the program. This affords the consortium the opportunity to draw on many talented resources to ensure we are producing a suitable product for both the law enforcement personnel and the IT staff within the agencies. 

The Data Sharing Consortium is governed and controlled by the law enforcement agencies themselves.

## How Is the Consortium Governed?

** ****A. Membership provides a vote on the governing board.**
** ****B. Every agency has a say in how the program is developed.**

**The Steering Committee Oversees**

**Consortium Finances**
** **
**Policies and Procedures**
**Development Strategies**
**Expansion Efforts**
**Work Productivity   **

## “FINDER”

- “FINDER”
**Florida Integrated Network for Data Exchange and Retrieval**

## What Data Should We Share?

**(and what appropriate data can we share?)**

** ****Pawn Data**

** ****Persons ****&**** Vehicles Data**

**Pawnshop Transactions, Transports**

**Field Interrogations ****&**** Contacts, Records**

** ****Crime Analysis Data**

**Trends, MO’s, Subjects, Bulletins, Maps**

** ****Other Data as Directed**

**Version 1**

**Version 2**

**Version 3**

**Version 4**

## Distributed Data Sharing System

**CJNet**

**Agency A**
**Data Sharing**
**Mini-Server**

**Agency C**
**Data Sharing**
**Mini-Server**

**Agency B**
**Data Sharing**
**Mini-Server**

**Agency D**
**Data Sharing**
**Mini-Server**

**Agency B Records**
**Management System**

**Agency A Records**
**Management System**

**Agency C Records**
**Management System**

**Agency D Records**
**Management System**

**CJNet**

**CJNet**

**CJNet**

**Notes:**
The Law Enforcement Data Sharing project uses a distributed architecture. 

This distributed architecture allows each agency to maintain control of their respective data. 

Another advantage to the distributed approach is; if one server quits working or is taken off line for any reason all the other agencies are still up and fully operational. 

All the information exchanged through this program travels on the secure FDLE CJNet network.

## How It Works Within the Agency

- CJNet

**“****Name”**

**“****Name”**

- Transport & Translation

- (parser software)

- (to other agencies)

- The agency will have its firewalls and its data systems.  The router and CJNet services are provided by FDLE.

- The initial translation of the data can go back
- two or three years.  Then the new records can
- be added daily, hourly, or continually, based
- on the local automation environment.

**Web **
**Service**

**Data **
**Sharing**
**Appl.**

**Data**

- Records Management Server
- (agency mainframe)

- Data Sharing Server
- (web services box)

- The Data Sharing Server
- hardware should include:
-  P4 Pentium processor
-  80GB of storage
-  1GB of RAM
- The Data Sharing Server
- software should include:
-  MS SQL Server License
-  Dot Net Web Service
-  Data Sharing Application

**How It Works Within the Agency**

## Project Objectives and Status

- Connect New Agencies
- Comply with Global Justice XML Standards
- Add new data sets
- Increase the functionality (capabilities) of the program.
- Better queries
- Analysis capabilities
- Partner with other business/agencies with the same goals.

## I-4 Corridor & SR 528 Pilot Phase

**I-4 Corridor & SR 528 Pilot Phase**

**Outlying Counties**

**Initial Counties**

- Seminole
- Orange
- Osceola
- Polk
- Hillsborough

- Volusia
- Brevard
- Pinellas

**Initial Municipalities:****  **Orlando – Tampa – Altamonte Springs – Kissimmee
**Current University Partners: **** **University of Central Florida

**Pinellas**

**Brevard**

**Volusia**

**Polk**

**Osceola**

**Orange**

**Seminole**

**Hillsborough**

**August 2002 to**
**July 2003**

## Signing up agencies

- Agencies sign a contract (MOU) with University of Central Florida for cost of connecting agencies.
- Contract costs covers the (average) cost of connecting agencies and translating data sets into the system (parsing).

## MOU Signed and Providing/Sharing Information

- Altamonte Springs Police Department
- Alachua County Sheriff’s Office
- Brevard County Sheriff’s Office
- Citrus County Sheriff’s Office
- Collier County Sheriff’s Office
- Edgewater Police Department
- Gainesville Police Department
- Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
- Kissimmee Police Department
- Lake Mary Police Department
- Longwood Police Department
- New Smyrna Beach Police Department
- Orange County Sheriff’s Office
- Osceola County Sheriff’s Office
- Oviedo Police Department
- Polk County Sheriff’s Office
- Port Orange Police Department
- Port Saint Lucie Police Department
- Sanford Police Department
- Seminole County Sheriff’s Office
- Tampa Police Department
- Winter Garden Police Department
- Winter Springs Police Department

_**MOU Signed**_
-    Boca Raton Police Department
-    Bunnell Police Department
-    Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office
-    Clay County Sheriff’s Office
-    Cocoa Police Department
-    Daytona Beach Police Department
-    Delray Beach Police Department
-    Flagler County Sheriff’s Office
-    Fort Pierce Police Department
-    Hernando County Sheriff’s Office
-    Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office
-    Lake County Sheriff’s Office
-    Lantana Police Department
-    Lee County Sheriff’s Office
-    Marion County Sheriff’s Office
-    Melbourne Police Department
-    Miami Police Department
-    Ocoee Police Department
-    Orlando Police Department
-    Palm Bay Police Department
-    Rockledge Police Department
-    Saint Augustine Police Department
-    Sarasota Police Department
-    University Of Central Florida P.D.
-    Winter Park Police Department
**Total Agencies Participating - 48**

## Processing MOU

- Atlantic Beach Police Department
- Avon Park Police Department
- Bradford County Sheriff’s Office
- Broward County Sheriff’s Office
- Cape Coral Police Department
- Cocoa Beach Police Department
- Coral Gables Police Department
- Eustis Police Department
- Florida A&M University
- Fort Myers Police Department
- Holmes Beach Police Department
- Leesburg Police Department
- Manatee County Sheriff’s Office
- Martin County Sheriff’s Office
- Mont Dora Police Department
- Ocala Police Department
- Ormond Beach Police Department
- Okeechobee Sheriff’s Office
- Perry Police Department
- Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
- Plantation Police Department
- St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office
- Tavares Police Department
- Temple Terrace Police Department

## How Much Does It Cost?

** **
**Annual Contribution Schedule**
-  (Revised 10-24-03)
**	****   ****>500****	****         ****	****         10,000**
**	****250-499****	****           7,500       **
**	****100-249****	****           5,000**
**	****          **
**	****    ****0-99****	****                       2,500**

**Non-Profit Public Partnership Directed by the Member Law Enforcement Agencies**

**Vigorous Efforts to Acquire Government Grants and Appropriations are Ongoing**

## Accomplishments

- Police successes in crime control
- Development of database schema to fully support GJXDM.
- Development of a full scalable national-level architecture (in conjunction with Microsoft engineers) to support future growth of the network.
- Development of baseline tools necessary to deal with data integrity issues in participating members databases.

## FINDER Usage

| AGENCY | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | TOTAL QUERIES |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orange | 3906 | 2037 | 6169 | 5734 | 7876 | 25722 |
| Seminole | 3468 | 3802 | 5519 | 5379 | 7209 | 25377 |
| Hillsborough | 2687 | 3058 | 6338 | 6081 | 7881 | 26045 |
| Polk | 2100 | 2307 | 5380 | 5233 | 6817 | 21837 |
| Osceola  | 1532 | 1808 | 5401 | 5494 | 6985 | 21220 |
| Citrus | 2504 | 3092 | 4742 | 4405 | 3992 | 18735 |
| Kissimmee | 2037 | 2363 | 5506 | 5428 | 7078 | 22412 |
| Tampa | 2562 | 2956 | 5432 | 5318 | 7502 | 23770 |
| Port St. Lucie | 2481 | 2969 | 1861 | 2220 | 2848 | 12379 |
| Brevard | 2430 | 2776 | 5075 | 5066 | 5911 | 21258 |
| Winter Garden | 1410 | 2110 | 2103 | 2260 | 2893 | 10776 |
| Collier | 1 | 1407 | 4976 | 4917 | 6185 | 17486 |
| Alachua | 0 | 0 | 2301 | 4720 | 6456 | 13477 |
| Port Orange Fusion | 0 | 0 | 584 | 1658 | 1881 | 4123 |
| Gainesville | 0 | 0 | 182 | 2158 | 3 | 2343 |
| Marion | 3 | 20 | 10 | 5175 | 7685 | 12893 |
| Lee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1727 | 1727 |
| Boca Raton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1135 | 1135 |
| Jacksonville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 957 | 976 |
| Clay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 466 | 466 |
|  |  |  |  |  |  | GRAND TOTAL |
|  |  |  |  |  |  | 280034 |

## A FEW OF THE SUCCESS STORIES

**A FEW OF THE SUCCESS STORIES**
**Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (First success came quick) – Automobile Burglary**
**        ****Osceola County Sheriff’s Office – Hotel room burglary with recovery of $12,000.00 in jewelry**
**             ****Citrus County Sheriff’s Office – Residential burglary - property recovered**
**              ****Orange County Sheriff’s Office – Armed Robbery**
**       ****There are over 300 documented success and their growing everyday!****	**

## Success Story Example

- The Orange County Sheriff’s Office Robbery Unit was able to use FINDER to identify an Armed Robbery Suspect from a December cold case.  The original Victim was a clerk at a check cashing store which was robbed.  She has since resigned and was working at a bank when the suspect from the check cashing robbery entered the bank.  The victim teller activated the silent alarm fearing she would be robbed again.  The suspect became suspicious and left the bank with out incident, but spoke to a female prior to leaving. Upon arrival of the responding deputies the female was identified, although would not give any information regarding the suspect.  OCSO Detective Anthony Brisinte used FINDER’s link analysis to view the known associates of the female, and subsequently identified the Robbery suspect from a two year old DV case related to the female.  The suspect was apprehended and is in the Orange County Jail.

## Database schema 

- Goal of achieving full communication via GJXDM
- Data stored in relational database
- Translation of base data to GJXDM
- Transport of data via web services

## Slide 24

## FINDER v4 Architecture

- Uses a hierarchical approach.
- Still utilizes local servers, but instead of fully distributing queries, they are handed to a “regional” server for processing and return.
- Data still resides at agencies
- Regional server handles major processing of query.
- Multiple layers possible.

## Tools

- Number 1 problem facing all analysis systems is data integrity.
- Most analysis tools work well in lab environment or with clean data.
- In real world the data is never clean.

## Example real data

## Example real data

## Example real data

## How to deal with dirty data

- Currently developing algorithms that can perform the queries based on multiple matching fields in real data.
- Expect to have name matching algorithm ready for version 4 release.

## Opportunities for solutions (aka Problems) encountered

- No-brainer ? Yes to some.
- Politics (resistant state agencies).
- Politics (acquiring funding for development).
- Challenges
- Going to other states.
- Partnering with other interests.

## Timeline

- Version 3.2 release (Q4 – 2005)
- Adds new data sets
- Full GJXDM compliance
- Version 4 release (Q2 – 2006)
- New query architecture supported
- New data sets
- Name matching incorporated into queries

## Domestic Security

**Domestic Security**
**         ****And**
**   ****Crime Control**
**      **

**For more information on the Consortium please contact:**

**Mike McKinley, Orange County SO, Chair**
- 407-823-4242
- mike.mcKinley@ocfl.net
**Jim McClure, Orange County Sheriff’s Office**
- 407-823-1689
- Jim.mcclure@ocfl.net

**Kunal Motwani, Staff**
- 407-823-0830
- kmotwani@mail.ucf.edu
**Ron Eaglin, Professor**
- 407-823-5937
- reaglin@mail.ucf.edu
**Mike Reynolds, Professor**
- 407-823-2943
- kreynold@mail.ucf.edu

**Public Safety Technology Center**

**Website: **_**http://pstc.ucf.edu/**_ **	****	**

**Data Sharing Consortium**

**Website: **_**http://druid.engr.ucf.edu/datasharing/**_

- A link to the following site is in the left column of
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