Contents at a Glance. Class Handout

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1 Class Handout Contents at a Glance MODULE SELECTION LOGGING IN RULES SEARCH SCREENS VEHICLE AND LICENSE PLATE SEARCHES REFINED VEHICLE/PERSON SEARCHES SEARCH SUMMARY RESULTS FINDING ASSOCIATIONS AND VISUALIZING FINDING MORE ASSOCIATES OF THE ASSOCIATES MAPPING THE ACTIVITY OF A SUSPECT

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3 Table of Contents 1. MODULE SELECTION LOGGING IN RULES SEARCH SCREENS VEHICLE AND LICENSE PLATE SEARCHES REFINED VEHICLE/PERSON SEARCHES SEARCH SUMMARY RESULTS FINDING ASSOCIATIONS AND VISUALIZING FINDING MORE ASSOCIATES OF THE ASSOCIATES MAPPING THE ACTIVITY OF A SUSPECT... 12

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5 1. Module Selection When you begin, you will get the main selection screen first. Select Detect to move to the sign-in screen. (Other modules are not discussed in this handout.) Detect If you are having trouble logging in, contact your administrator. 1

6 2. Logging In Your administrator will help you set up a User Name and Password. Selecting Detect takes you to the Detect log in screen. Enter your User Name, then your Password and click OK. Click after Password and User Name are given. 3. Rules If you forget your User Name or Password, don t keep trying to log in, simply contact your administrator. If you keep trying, you will be blocked like you would if you continually tried to use an ATM with the wrong information. You can only have one session open at a time. If the Open Session notification comes up, simply click to remove it and proceed. 2

7 Your administrator will be able to allow you access to whatever modules or groups you are allowed to be in. If you have trouble getting in, contact your administrator. The administrator can access COPLINK technical assistance to correct the problem. 4. Search Screens The Person Search is the default search screen. You will go there first. Back/Forward Arrows Selection Tabs Drop Down Box Basic and Refined Filters Add Here Goes here All of the other search categories are accessible from that screen by tabs. (The interface looks different in version 4.0 than in previous versions.) 3

8 Some boxes are fill-in and others are drop down. Starting to type the selection will access drop down options. Use filters to guide searches. They are at the bottom of each screen. Use the Basic Search for associations and the Refine Search to focus. Using the Add button places the search selection into the search column on the right. Any blue underlined item is a hyperlink to focus on that category. Go back and forward using the arrows at the top. For broader results, less is better. The more known information there is, the smaller the results. Never start searches with unverified information because it restricts the results and may well be incorrect. Use known information, then try possible information. 5. Vehicle and License Plate Searches Always start with the known information. If the Make is not for sure, use just the Color. If you have a suspect name and a possible vehicle, start with the suspect Name because the vehicle may already be associated. You can start with a Basic Search for a description of a person, and then refine it with a description of a vehicle on the right side column. If you have a partial plate number, remember that if you don t know where a given number is in a plate, check the box marked Match Anywhere in the Plate. An asterisk * replaces zero to an infinite number of symbols. The question mark? replaces one symbol. 4

9 Check if you don t know where the numbers are. 6. Refined Vehicle/Person Searches Don t forget that if you find suspect vehicles, you can get associations by refining the search with a person description on the right side of the form. In the following example you know that the vehicle involved is a white 4-door Cadillac with AZ lic #EMA9. You know the suspect is someone named Michael. Add one to the Refined Search column, the other to the Basic Search. Since you are looking for Michael, put him at the top. 5

10 Michael here Vehicle Plate Only Here Add Here Find Association This is your guy 6

11 As you can see, the Refined and Basic Searches can skip numerous steps in the investigative process. In many searches you can add the upcoming results to the right columns without first finding the results. Then add what you are finding associations with before finding the results. This will let your search take shape immediately and eliminate those results that don t belong. 7. Search Summary Results If you run a query, you will get results in a summary. This is where you begin to work on the results using the available tools. In the below example you search for black males from 20 to 30 years old. Find Here 7

12 Photo Available Pawn Flag. The result summary includes a group of boxes on the left that show what type of information is available for each person listed. A person figure means there is a photo attached. All of the people in the results can be added to the associations Basic and Refined search, or individual entries can be added. Each Summary Table result contains certain documents, accessible by clicking on the blue underlined link. This hyperlink is standard within the COPLINK system. 8

13 Underlined and blue Mapping Remember you can save your History if you want to come back to the same search elements. Also remember that the mapping feature is available through this screen. 9

14 8. Finding Associations and Visualizing First add a person found in a query to the Basic Search column. Add here It goes here Find Associations Results include persons, organizations, locations, phones, vehicles, firearms, property, securities, and documents. Activate the Visualizer by clicking the tab. Visualizer 10

15 Here are the associations in Visualizer form. You can tool tip each category to look at what or who they are. The results self-adjust measuring the distance between the subject of the search and the object. The distance relates to the number of documents. Objects closer to the Subject are more significant to the search. Center the square to center on the screen Start/stop Layout preference Remember that you can change the type of layout and stop/start the self-adjusting motion at the left. 9. Finding More Associates of the Associates Once you have visualized the associates, you can run the cursor over each face to see more information. You can right click on an associate and come up with more associates. The associations may vary in direct links. It may be someone who was stopped with him, or someone who is related by the same location, phone, or vehicle. 11

16 You can also run the cursor over the phones, houses, guns or organizations and get information, or click on them and get even more associates. Right clicking the gun gets more associates Tool tip shows pistol Note how the right click on the gun raises more associations with others in the associate s group. This process can be continued out as far as you can imagine in order to get more and more information and possible locations or relationships. 10. Mapping the Activity of a Suspect When you run an individual or get results from a search with limited information, you can click on the Map button and begin the process of mapping their activities. 12

17 This lets you have information up front about associations and activities and gives you insight into denials when you do interviews. Use the mapping feature to enhance illustrations of activity and patterns. Graphs relate to incidents and coincide with the map. When you map incidents, you can chart them as well. The graphs show what you are trying to focus on and aid in briefings and plans. We hope this overview of features helps when you just need a reminder about little things. If you have any problems please feel free to contact us. 13

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