Electronic cop solves crimes
. . .Two years ago, a Phoenix homicide detective asked for help on a case.
Someone had been killed, but police had few clues. “Look for two brothers and a mother whose first name is all we know,” the homicide detective said.So planning and research Detective Ben Vermillion keyed the information into a special program that pools and searches police department databases.“Within 15 minutes, I had the shooter for his homicide,” Vermillion said. “They were listed in some departmental reports and … (the program) links them together.”Vermillion says he couldn’t have done that so quickly without a tool called COPLINK. Named for it’s ability to link cops with one another, the program links and compares databases within agencies and shares the information with others to help solve crimes. . . . [ read more Coplink data sharing program aids crime solving]
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