Smith & Wesson's Web-Based Facial Imaging Tool in Testing with National Retailer; Provides Support To Law Enforcement.Business Editors SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2003 Smith & Wesson Smith & Wesson U.S. gun manufacturer. The company has its roots in an 1852 partnership between Horace Smith (1808–93) and Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906), who designed and marketed a lever-action, repeating magazine handgun that held a self-contained cartridge. Advanced Technologies(TM) LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a subsidiary of Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :SWB SWB Stadtwerke Bonn SWB Scranton Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania region) SWB Short Wheel Base SWB Southwestern Bell SWB Subjective Well-Being (psychology) SWB Switchboard SWB Social Well-Being ), parent company of the legendary 151-year-old handgun maker, Smith & Wesson Corp., today announced that Payless Shoe Source will test Smith & Wesson's new Web-based facial composite A facial composite is a graphical presentation of an eyewitness's memory of a face, as recorded by a composite artist. Facial composites are used mainly by police forces in dealing with crime, generally in investigating serious crime cases. sketch tool, Identi-Kit.NET, used for investigating and solving crimes. Last year, when the national retail chain experienced several robberies in the Pittsburgh area, the corporate loss prevention department tried an innovative approach to do something about it. The Loss Prevention Department turned to Smith & Wesson's original facial composite sketch tool software program called Identi-Kit. Using the software, a picture was quickly put together as a composite sketch, but not by a police sketch artist, by the Loss Prevention Department and store associates. The Identi-Kit software program allowed the company investigator to sit with the store sales clerk sales clerk n (US) → dependiente/a m/f sales clerk n (US) → commesso/a and create a sketch of the suspect. "She was able to come up with a sketch of a person she felt was 90 percent accurate," said one of the retailer's Loss Prevention Investigators who then showed the sketch to other stores involved and concluded it was the same suspect robbing each location. When the composite was shown to the local police, they said the suspect was in custody for another robbery. That single sketch connected the man to ten other robberies in the Pittsburgh area. Users cite the greatest value Identi-Kit offered was in the safety and satisfaction sales associates' felt with closure in the episode. As one Loss Prevention Investigator said, "Not only do these suspects rob the store, they rob the sales person of their dignity and sense of security. It's therapeutic for the associate to work through any issues and participate in solving the crime." Corporate loss prevention investigators are increasingly becoming the point person for identifying robbery suspects Noun 1. robbery suspect - someone suspected of committing robbery suspect - someone who is under suspicion . Resources at local police departments are often limited due to budget constraints A Budget Constraint represents the combinations of goods and services that a consumer can purchase given current prices and his income. Consumer theory uses the concepts of a budget constraint and a preference ordering to analyze consumer choices. and may only have one or two officers available to utilize this type of sketch tool. For some agencies, composite sketches are limited in use to only murder investigations due to the time and costs associated in the traditional methods of developing composite sketches. Payless Shoe Source saw it as an opportunity to step in and support the efforts of local law enforcement by providing thorough sketches of the perpetrators. "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a consuming for the police to spend a couple of hours with a victim of a robbery," said a corporate loss prevention Investigator for Payless Shoe Source. "We're able to provide sketches using the Web-based imaging tool for the police to go out and help solve crimes. It allows us to provide service to the community as well." Payless is currently testing the new Identi-Kit.NET version recently introduced by Smith & Wesson. Identi-Kit.NET includes web-based databases and allows the users to send the composite drawing immediately to all area law enforcement. The Payless corporate loss prevention investigators simply access the Smith & Wesson program via a special website and input their individual user identification and password and begin composing com·pose v. com·posed, com·pos·ing, com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To make up the constituent parts of; constitute or form: the picture. Within minutes, the final composite sketch can be sent electronically to police in the area and formatted into wanted posters that can be printed and distributed to the Payless stores in every city, state and across the country. The state-of-the-art facial imaging tool allows for collaboration between 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). , corporate loss prevention staff and other entities to identify and apprehend criminals through a Web-based platform. Identi-Kit.NET features more than five billion different facial composites that can be produced including multi-racial and multi-gender appearances Identi-Kit.NET offers a significant upgrade to Smith & Wesson's original product, Identi-Kit 2000, which is currently one of the leading facial composite software programs utilized by law enforcement nationwide. The new Identi-Kit.NET can create wanted posters, search for composite matches and transmit sketches and wanted posters instantaneously via-email. The new Identi-Kit.NET will also include Web-based databases for quick and easy information exchange between law enforcement agencies and other entities, Web-based courseware for training and certification, and online software updates with supplementary software packages. About Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation is the parent company of Smith & Wesson Corp., one of the world's leading producers of quality handguns, law enforcement products and firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. safety and security products. Law enforcement personnel, military personnel, target shooters, hunters, collectors and firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. and other products utilizing its metal working expertise. For more information, visit http://www.smithandwesson.com Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement Statements in this press release about the company's future expectations, including: the efficacy of the software and all other statements in this release, other than historical facts, are "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. It is important to note that actual results and ultimate corporate actions could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements based on such factors as softening of consumer demand based on national or political events or based on consumers' personal satisfaction or desire for our products for a variety of reasons (style, quality, etc.); the failure of the software and user to learn how to adequately use the upgraded version of the software for the search undertaken; budgetary constraints on law enforcement agencies; or a perceived or actual decline in the quality of products produced, among other factors. Such "forward-looking statements" are subject to risks and uncertainties set forth from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended April 30, 2002 and Forms 10-QSB for the quarters ending July 31, 2002, October 31, 2002 and January 31, 2003. |
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