Enforsys President Dr. Vincent Tortoriello Appointed to Prestigious Advisory Committee.WHIPPANY, N.J. -- Enforsys Systems Inc., a leader in public safety software development specializing in information sharing See data conferencing. and mobile reporting for law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). , today announced that company president Dr. Vincent Tortoriello has been named a full time member of the Law Enforcement Information Technology Standard Advisory Committee of the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS IJIS International Journal of Information Security IJIS Integrated Justice Information Systems ) Institute. Evolving out of the Department of Justice's call for a national discussion on integrated justice, IJIS is currently a not-for-profit corporation A not-for-profit corporation is a corporation created by statute, government or judicial authority that is not intended to provide a profit to the owners or members. A corporation that is organized to provide profits to its owners or members is a for-profit corporation. focused on the development of new standards and practices in the law enforcement technology world. With over 100 members, the organization is comprised of companies who provide information technology related services and products to justice agencies. "I'm extremely honored to be part of the IJIS committee and look forward to applying my industry expertise to assist law enforcement agencies in the innovative use of advanced technologies," said Tortoriello. "There is a dramatic need for all law enforcement agencies to better share and utilize critical information accurately and efficiently, and that's exactly what IJIS and this committee is committed to facilitating." As one of the founders of Enforsys, Tortoriello has played a key role in working as the domain expert in the development of the company's various technology products and services. With a PhD in Chemical Engineering, he also served as a police officer for over 20 years during which he received awards for Life Saving, Meritorious Service and Exceptional Duty. Industry Involvement The specific purpose of IJIS' newly formed IT standard committee is to broaden industry involvement in the vetting and endorsement of standard for dispatch and records systems, and then to move beyond the functional standards to develop the technical standards needed to support information exchanges between dispatch and records systems from different companies, and the exchange of information with other justice computer systems in prosecutor and court agencies. The IJIS Institute In the first half of 1999, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) through its Bureau of Justice Administration (BJA) engaged members of the vendor community that focused on justice information technology (IT) and invited their participation in national-level discussions around has also been working closely with - and commended by - the Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council (LEITSC LEITSC Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council ), a consortium of law enforcement associations and organizations funded by the Department of Justice. That work has focused on developing functional standards for computer aided dispatching and police records management systems. About Enforsys Enforsys Systems Inc. is a leading developer of public safety software specializing in CAD, RMS, information sharing and mobile reporting for law enforcement agencies. Based in Whippany, New Jersey Whippany is an unincorporated area located within Hanover Township in Morris County, New Jersey. Cedar Knolls is another unincorporated area within Hanover Township. Its name is derived from the Whippanong Native Americans, a tribe that once inhabited the area. , the company's products and services are designed by police officers and built on tried and proven logic, utilizing real-time, incident-based input to provide timely, accurate information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. for use in investigations, intelligence reporting The preparation and conveyance of information by any means. More commonly, the term is restricted to reports as they are prepared by the collector and as they are transmitted by the collector to the latter's headquarters and by this component of the intelligence structure to one or more and crime analysis data. Enforsys' products are used by more than 100 law enforcement agencies and organizations across the Northeast in department sizes from four to 1,400 officers. |
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