NCJ Number
210403
Journal
Police Chief Volume: 72 Issue: 6 Dated: June 2005 Pages: 44-49
Date Published
June 2005
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article describes how law enforcement information sharing can be enhanced with service-oriented architecture.
Abstract
While law enforcement work increasingly demands immediate access to relevant information, too much information can also be problematic to officers on the street who need simple data fast. The author contends that the solution to the challenges plaguing information sharing among law enforcement personnel and agencies is service-oriented architecture (SOA), a new method of connectivity. The six tenets of SOA are described and include the requirement of dynamic infrastructure design to allow for the evolution of information sharing requirements. SOA is used by high-end industry and pedestrian consumers, such as Travelocity and Google users, and can be effectively implemented in the law enforcement industry as well. Examples are provided for how SOA can benefit law enforcement, such as by handling a driver’s license inquiry with speed and precision. The benefits of SOA are so great that the author predicts that with time, as the technology becomes more mainstream, its use by the law enforcement community will be pervasive. Endnotes