Promising Areas in Information-Led Policing

NIJ is enhancing information-led policing through several emerging areas:

Research and Development

• Identity matching and entity resolution.
• Positive identification information sharing (e.g., photos, fingerprints).
• Global Justice XML Data Model-based messaging for law enforcement.
• Data analysis tools for multidiscipline data-sharing systems.
• Alert system mechanism to notify law enforcement agencies of “hits.”

Testing and Evaluation

• Proof-of-concept implementation of the Justice Reference Architecture (JRA).
• Proof-of-concept for matching, scoring, and filtering of data for law enforcement.