1. Welcome

2. Digital Information Gateway (DIG) Introduction & Best Practices
Liberty Mid-Atlantic HIDTA
7801 Essington Avenue, Suite A
Philadelphia, PA 19153
Jeremiah A. Daley, Director
Digital Information Gateway (DIG)
Introduction & Best Practices
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4. Information Sharing PURPOSE—
facilitating cooperation among Federal, State, local, and tribal
law enforcement agencies to share information and implement coordinated enforcement activities;
(B) enhancing law enforcement intelligence sharing
among Federal, State, local, and tribal law
enforcement agencies;
(C) providing reliable law enforcement
intelligence to law enforcement agencies
needed to design effective enforcement
strategies and operations; and
(D) supporting coordinated law
enforcement strategies which maximize
use of available resources.
PL SEC HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM.
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5. Digital Information Gateway (DIG) Overview
The Digital Information Gateway (DIG) is the primary tool used for searching and sharing PCHIDTA data.
DIG provides Google-style searches for databases. It federates a single search to many different databases allowing users to search tens-of-millions of up-to-date records in seconds.
DIG can securely control which users have access to data.
Multiple DIG servers can be connected together to form a secure information sharing network.
Many DIG information sharing networks
currently exist within U.S. and
international law enforcement agencies.
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7. DIG Information Sharing Network
DIG servers can be securely coupled to provide analysts and investigators access to data from different agencies or organizations in different areas.
Currently there are several operational DIG sharing networks
An analyst or investigator can use DIG to securely search their own data, and data provided by other agencies using a single query
LEJIS data will now be available for DIG users in addition to all current data sources. Integration is seamless.
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8. LEJIS Federated Search with Digital Information Gateway
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9. Getting LEJIS Data
A global search against DIG will bring back LEJIS results together with all other search results.
Users must be granted privileges to see LEJIS data.
Behind the scenes, the DIG Server uses a secure Web Service interface to search the most current LEJIS data. Data is shared in real time.
The latest revision of LEJIS is supported (allows ad-hoc query i.e. LWI ).
Secure
Network Interface
Local DIG Server
LEJIS
Server
User Interface
Other Remote Data Sources
Local Data Sources
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10. LEJIS – Status and Successes
Reporting and Evaluation Metrics
Police System Vendors participating = 5
Connected Law Enforcement Agencies = nearly 340
Integration Philadelphia Police Dept. = Complete
Integration of Pittsburgh Bureau of Police = Complete
Incident Records in LEJIS index = 14.5 million
5,000 Incident Records submitted daily
1,200 Index Queries daily
LEJIS Web Interface Available through the JNET Portal to all departments across the Commonwealth
Search integrated and accessible to HIDTA

11. Questions and Discussions
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