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ResourcesTeraStack® Solution for Law Enforcement Data StorageMcKinney, Texas (March 11, 2011) -- In 2009, the Hie Electronics' sales team initiated a discussion with Memphis Police Department Deputy Chief Jim Harvey at the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference. At the time, the Department had no backend storage for its growing files of digital multi-media evidence and was often challenged to find digital evidence in a timely manner for court cases. The Department needed a system for complete digital asset management with long-term and large-scale storage for property and evidence videos. Memphis handled 940,586 calls in 2009. The Memphis Police Department prides itself on being staffed with officers who are innovative, highly trained, technically proficient, and culturally sensitive.
These innovations, used in conjunction with technologically forward Blue CRUSH™ data-driven software developed by the Memphis Police Department in partnership with the University of Memphis Center of Criminology and Research, are a new way to address the old problem of crime.
With a 2010 sale to the Memphis Police Department, Hie Electronics' optical data storage system, the TeraStack® Solution, enters the public safety sector; providing data backup archiving for an intense profusion of data to enhance the Department's technologically advanced effort to fight crime.
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Several technical innovations have been recently introduced by Larry A. Godwin, Director of Police, including license plate readers mounted atop patrol cars on pan and tilt units, which automatically scan and run nearby plates. "Sky Cop" Mobile Surveillance Units; highly visible, portable cameras mounted atop elevated platforms; are used for policing of designated "hot spots." Also, officers have begun documenting certain evidence electronically on PDAs.
A state-of-the-art regional interoperable data sharing point, the Real Time Crime Center, was opened in April 2008 to manage training, data sharing, and video surveillance and Blue CRUSH crime analytics. For the Memphis Police Department, the TeraStack® Solution can now integrate critical daily video & data backup from multiple sources.
Hie Electronics, a pioneer of innovation for long-term scalable data storage solutions, is located in McKinney, Texas and is the manufacturer of the TeraStack® Solution, usable in a variety of applications where extended data storage is required such as security surveillance video, exchange backup, architectural and engineering projects, medical research, health records and medical PACS data, geospatial data, law enforcement data, motion picture video, government data, and more. The company is the recipient of the Frost and Sullivan "2009 North American Data Storage Technologies Green Excellence Award" in Technology Innovation, a North Texas Clean Air Coalition 2009 Clean Air Champion, an Energy Star Small Business Network Participant, and a stakeholder in the Energy Star Enterprise Storage Initiative. For more information, please visit www.hie-electronics.com.
