ISYS Search Software to Provide Santa Monica Police Department With Departmental Search Solution for Investigations and Operations

Latest Win Extends ISYS' Penetration of Law Enforcement Market for Investigative and Intelligence Technology

DENVER, Feb. 18, 2004 - ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for business and government, today announced that the Santa Monica Police Department has selected ISYS:desktop to enable departmental search capabilities across its Office of Criminal Investigations and Office of Operations.

Based in California, the Santa Monica Police Department will use ISYS to search police records more effectively, act on new information as it becomes available and connect it with internal and external databases to supplement investigative and intelligence leads. The Department will also leverage ISYS to harvest information from its newly developing Graffiti Abatement System and share this information with other City departments.

"For law enforcement organizations such as ours, ISYS Search Software ensures our work as Crime Analysts to be both efficient and thorough," said Safa Egilmez, Crime Analyst, Santa Monica Police Department. "ISYS has become absolutely essential in our investigative and operational work, giving us the ability to access, share, discover and react to information in a rapid manner."

ISYS:desktop provides the Santa Monica Police Department with an easy-to-use search solution that enables users to quickly search, filter, navigate and share results. Crime Analysts and Department employees can search everything from various records databases to word processing documents and emails. In addition, users can also leverage ISYS' Hit Highlighting and Hit-To-Hit Navigation features to quickly and easily locate the information that is most relevant to them.

About ISYS Search Software

Established in 1988, ISYS Search Software is a global supplier of search solutions for business and government. The company's award-winning software suite offers a broad range of products designed to meet the diverse information retrieval and knowledge management needs of organizations operating in a variety of industries, including government, legal, law enforcement and recruitment.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, ISYS also maintains offices in Denver and the UK. The company's customers include the USDA, Boeing, Perkins Coie, Management Recruiters International (MRI), the US Department of Justice, the Miami Police Department, BlueCross BlueShield and the IRS. Additional information can be obtained by phone at 800.992.4797.

About Santa Monica Police Department

Established in 1896, Santa Monica Police Department and its 441 employees are responsible for the public safety of a 90,000 resident population and up to a quarter-million visitors who come to Santa Monica each day for work or recreation. Since 1992, the Santa Monica Police Department has continually studied emerging crime and nuisance issues and created an annual mitigation plan based on specific goals and objectives. In 2003, overall Part I crime declined close to 4% as compared with 2002. From 1993 to 2002, the overall crime rate had been reduced 55% to the lowest level since 1963.

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