Introducing LENSS (Law Enforcement Network Sharing Solution) The Digital Virtual Reality of Information Delivery

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Globally, all law enforcement has their methods and systems to check who a person is, their possible criminal record or a vehicle’s registration and ownership. This is all static information sitting in various databases and is not accessible with just a one-time entry. It is not giving a ’real-time’ picture of who they are stopping and interacting with.

Police officers, especially those that are frontline, street cops, traffic units, warrant service officers, and detectives are blindsided every single day confronting individuals by not having the full facts at their fingertips. Their lives are on the line, the safety of these officers is tantamount to policing and public interaction for success.

The Information Revolution of Law Enforcement has arrived, proven and available to all global law enforcement agencies.

In the USA, NCIC, which is used for criminal backgrounds is now fifty-one years old and like DMV database is static information stored in a dusty data silo. It tells you nothing of what the individual’s interaction with law enforcement has been previously or the what the facts are about the participation of the said vehicle and what it has been involved in.

The U.K. is slightly different, but with similar issues. Vehicles stopped use PNC for information and then if need be a secondary query to CRIMINT (Intelligence Information). When a person is checked, it is two-fold again in querying, using CRIMINT and Border/Immigration data. This is also static information and not current with other interviews/stops or investigations.

LENSS works across the board, no matter what part of public safety. It is the proprietary/patented ability to securely share information, which uses your current databases plus all current thread information.

•                     Community Policing
•                       DUI Checkpoints
•                       Gang Investigations
•                       Loss Prevention
•                       Pedophile Groups
•                       CCTV Reports
•                       Terrorism
•                       Traffic Stops
•                       LPR
•                       Calls for Service
•                       Border patrol
•                       Human Trafficking
•                       Facial Recognition
•                       SWAT
•                       Traffic Accidents
•                       Stop & Frisk
•                       Drug Investigations
•                       Immigration/Customs
•                       Slavery
•                       Currency Recording
•                       Warrant Service

All information gathered through any of those situations is totally shareable instantaneously with those who have a connection across borders and agencies via email and SMS text. Bringing them directly into the capability to solve right there and then.

As the report or citation is written and completed with all checkboxes marked, the officer makes simple notes with the expansion of relevant information on the stop or citation issuance. This is likened to an Electronic Index Card of Perpetual Information. Should this match other information already in the system, all other individuals will be alerted via email and or SMS text. This information has now instantaneously been sent to all others that are now alerted. It can include back-up or a specialist unit response.

In the event of an officer being sent for a call for service, for a loud noise complaint, he or she can enter the address of the location and know what other concerns or calls have occurred with individuals residing there. This is expanding officer safety with up-to-date information via LENSS.

This is the connection that has been missing since the inception of policing by Sir Robert Peel, in 1829. Peel’s Nine Peelian Principles, the Policeman’s Bible now has the Tenth Principle, a Perceptive Intelligence, LENSS (Law Enforcement Network Sharing Solution). Truly a massive critical improvement necessary for the social/criminal situations of today and also previously really required.

We have all used Index Cards which believe it or not have played such an important role in crime fighting that is why in the creation of LENSS (Law Enforcement Network Sharing Solution) it has been so successful in sharing cross-border information/agencies, which allows law enforcement officers to be better prepared and protected.

Today, cross-border crime information sharing was non-existent until now! Yes, proactive police department tools that are agnostic to what devices it can be used on.

It is important to show why this is so significant. Let us use one agency that we all know of and heard of, the London Metropolitan Police. Like all agencies, they have communications via radio, mobile phone, and laptop computer. Each time an incident occurs, the information is received via 999 or from another officer, this goes through a dispatch system and is the same as used by all global agencies. Once the officer or officers are dispatched, they now require intelligence or Intel, this is garnered not from dispatch but by a separate support channel. Yes, another connection is required, they will supply intel to the officers, not always in a timely fashion which leaves those responding basically open for issues once arriving at the scene or incident.

On July 7th, 2018 it was reported and confirmed by working Metropolitan Police Officers that due to lack of personnel the support channel was shut down. Meaning that all dispatched calls sent to officers left them blind, without any intel whatsoever. This the pressure policing is under and must change. Draw your own conclusion!

This will not occur when using LENSS (Law Enforcement Network Sharing Solution), through all of the connection via RMS & CAD using local and national crime data, which has been filed and securely accessible by all, you now know all about the individuals, locations, and connections. These index cards are simply ‘Subject Packets’ containing the major thread of all filed information with officer’s notes which are totally searchable.

Through LENSS, previous officers who filed information on the individual or with a situation match, they too are informed by SMS text and email. There is now so much background on the incident and its connections, all are fully up to speed without having to use any other person or support channel system. The previous officers can communicate if need be by mobile phone for confirmation. This is protecting the responding officers that are so necessary for today.

Shared Indexed Information via ‘Subject Packets’ Is More Than the Key!

Firstly, what is a ‘Subject Packet’? it is a digital means to collate all information regarding individuals of interest, arrestees, incidents, traffic stops, Field Interview Reports, Stop & Frisk Information etc. This is then digitally sharable instantaneously with others who have collectively filed individual reports that match information/data within the existing filed indexed information. Sharing is a cross-border protocol, meaning all, even globally if administratively required.

Information or the storing of information, has always been an issue. In policing we live or die on facts, facts that have been written down at the time of the incident or arrest and then being able to refer to them for the completion of the case. Most times, they are filed away and will never see the light of day until someone goes fishing, which takes time and draws frustration. This is so negative to not allow this information availability to others, it will save lives and protect officers who now know who they are speaking with, their background and real name. So much more than is available in the majority of agencies today.

Where have we gone wrong? Placing information in silos and not allowing others to see vital information is nonsensical, is it not? It hampers the solving of the crime and is costing an inordinate amount of the depleted budget, which you can ill afford! 

CommSmart Global Group, a LexisNexis Risk Solutions Partner, is not an outside enterprise that does not have previous and up-to-date working knowledge of global policing. Our ability to look in from the outside with logical business practices, fully understanding the inner workings of law enforcement agencies is second to none. Our team in the majority are former law enforcement personnel, working in street crime, narcotics, gangs, fraud, counter-terrorism with major agencies globally, and the FBI.

The challenges have been exacerbated by budget reductions at a time they are desperately needed and spent wisely. Proactivity is so necessary and will be achieved with valuable collected data/information being made available, securely to officers, right to the palm of their hand, either their Smartphone, Tablet or Laptop computer. 

LENSS is a proven success which is affordable and installable without time constraints. This is the law enforcement revolution you have been seeking. Have your law enforcement agency speak with us and request a digital demonstration. 

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