Irving, TX - June 9, 2010

	Cherokee Sheriff's Office (CSO) uses @NEC's Integra-ID to improve public safety and help identify criminals in Georgia http://ow.ly/1QblI #AFIS #law
	@NEC's Integra-ID solution helps law enforcement manage processing of latent, palmprint and tenprint records to increase matching accuracy and speed http://ow.ly/1Qbqy #AFIS #law
	In the first 45 days of implementing NEC's Integra-ID, CSO was able to identify four suspects for burglary cases without any prior matches
	NEC Integra-ID's vertical ridge patterning (VRP) feature automatically extracts the key elements of the fingerprint to search, cutting down the time to identification from 20 to 30 minutes to 30 seconds
	A case study detailing Cherokee County's use of NEC Integra-ID is available online.

 
Working with the Cherokee Sheriff's Office (CSO), NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communications and technology solutions, today announced that they have successfully deployed NEC's next-generation Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) Integra-ID solution to solve crimes faster and help get criminals off the street.
 
Cherokee County Sheriff's Office is a full service law enforcement agency located approximately 45 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia serving a community of over 190,000 people. Up until a year ago, this agency was in operation without a dedicated AFIS system, hindering CSO's ability to thoroughly and efficiently investigate cases.
 
"When conducting criminal investigations, time is of the essence- the faster we can identify suspects, the quicker we can successfully solve cases and get criminals off the street," said Captain Hubert Love, Cherokee Sheriff's Office. "Prior to deploying NEC's Integra-ID, if we had a latent print that needed to be searched against the state AFIS database, it required hours of driving to an AFIS workstation and requesting another agency to perform the search. Critical time was lost, and we recognized the need for a better procedure."
 
Cherokee Sheriff's Office found exactly what they needed with NEC's Integra-ID solution. "We knew that NEC's AFIS delivers the best speed and accuracy when it comes to biometrics and matching," explained Love. "Possessing these features in the fingerprint and palmprint record retrieval process are extremely important and have a direct, positive effect on public safety."
 
"Cherokee Sheriff's Office experience with NEC Integra-ID is typical of what we hear from other customers," said Barry Fisher, vice president of NEC Corporation of America's IDS division. "NEC's identification solutions are unique in our ability to cut the time, effort and cost needed to accurately identify criminals and solve crimes."
 
Today, with more than 350 deployments in over 20 countries, NEC is the leading provider and one of the largest market shareholders of the Automated Fingerprint and Palm Identification worldwide.
 
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About NEC Corporation of America
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is a leading provider of innovative IT, network and communications products and solutions for service carriers, Fortune 1000 and SMB businesses across multiple vertical industries, including Healthcare, Government, Education and Hospitality. NEC Corporation of America delivers one of the industry's broadest portfolios of technology solutions and professional services, including unified communications, wireless, voice and data, managed services, server and storage infrastructure, optical network systems, microwave radio communications and biometric security. NEC Corporation of America is a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global technology leader with operations in 30 countries and more than $42 billion in revenues. For more information, please visit www.necam.com.
 
About The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office
The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office is dedicated to preserving the peace, protecting residents and their property, enforcing all laws, and detecting and preventing crime. With 344 sworn Deputies, 16 Reserve Deputies, 69 civilian employees, and 8 volunteers including Chaplains, the Sheriff's Office has 413 employees with an annual operating budget of $28,711,709.
 
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