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'World-Class System'

Pennsylvania Police Team with ABM America For Records Management.

Washington, DC -- Public safety IT specialist, ABM America, today announced that the company has won a $7.3 million plus contract with Lockheed Martin to develop and supply a new, world-class Records Management System (RMS) that will drive the Pennsylvania State Police's incident information and criminal investigations for the next decade.

ABM's team of experts will be working closely with Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) personnel to replace their manual paper-based process with an automated RMS designed to streamline the information collection process. The RMS is being tightly integrated with many other systems under the umbrella of the PSP's Incident Information Management System (IIMS). "The new RMS will revolutionize the PSP's business process by greatly reducing redundant data entry and making incident information available in real time to commanders and field personnel," says Mr. Ronald Wilt, IIMS Program Manager for the PSP. "This information is key to enabling greater information sharing and realizing a more effective proactive law enforcement strategy. PSP will field the system as part of a regionalized rollout and training program beginning in November 2003."

The Records Management System includes the introduction of the following ABM systems in Pennsylvania (full product details available at www.abm-america.com.

IMS Crime: all crime information in a central, shared, statewide database.
Property: tracking of lost, stolen or confiscated property including drugs and firearms.
Prophecy: crime pattern analysis, prediction and location mapping from crime data.
Protect: management of children-at-risk, domestic violence and sex offender cases.
PIMS: management of procedures and payments relating to police informants.
GSA Document Viewer: indexing and on-demand retrieval of information such as crash scene data or handwritten notes.

"This new system means we can analyze our crime data much more easily and be more proactive in targeting and addressing criminals and criminal behavior. It will enable much better coordination and cooperation not only within the agency but also out to the entire criminal justice community as the demand grows for more information sharing. That is going to make law enforcement in Pennsylvania much more effective in both preventing and clearing up criminal incidents," says Major Wesley R. Waugh, Director of PSP's Bureau of Technology Services.

"The new Records Management system will put Pennsylvania at the forefront of modern community policing and problem solving in the US when used in conjunction with traditional policing styles. We will work closely with the PSP to make sure that our crime fighting technology helps deliver the world-class law enforcement services that the citizens of Pennsylvania deserve. It's a breakthrough contract for ABM but I'm confident that it will be the first of many as we have developed the best policing solutions currently available on the market," says International Director John Shaw.

Individual products bought by Pennsylvania as part of Records Management System are used in other parts of the US, Asia, Europe and the UK, but this purchase, which the company has been pursuing since April 2001, is ABM America's biggest single contract to date. It brings together most of the company's major police modules into a single, fully integrated policing system which is unrivalled elsewhere in the World.

IIMS, the PSP's largest information technology project in its history, is headed up by prime contractor and defense giant Lockheed Martin. The total IIMS contract is worth more than $123 million over the 46-month development and implementation period and also includes new systems for 'Consolidated Dispatch and 'Mobile Office.'