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CODY Systems : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. , the industry leader in integrated public safety software for real-time collection, analysis and sharing of critical data for public safety, law enforcement and intelligence agencies announced today that it is donating the use of its C.O.B.R.A. : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcod .. real-time records sharing system for police officers within Bucks County. This gift is in honor of Officer Brian Gregg, a fallen officer from the Newtown Borough Police Department, and allows police officers across the county to look up critical information on persons, vehicles and incidents from across seven participating police departments, in real-time from their mobile units.

C.O.B.R.A. provides real-time access to all connected agencies’ records databases, regardless of the RMS vendor each uses,

from within an officer’s mobile unit, allowing officers to search for persons, incidents, and vehicles from across the network, with real-time officer safety alerts.

Gregg, who had been employed with the Newtown Borough police force for just over a year, was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 29, 2005. The gunman also shot Gregg’s partner and one other person during the altercation.

CODY Systems, based out of Pottstown, PA, has had long-standing relationships with many police departments within Bucks County and across the region for up to 15 years. The company knew of the incident involving Officer Gregg, but did not know at the time that critical officer safety information regarding the subject who attacked Officer Gregg and the others, while not in Newtown Borough’s records database, WAS in the records databases of at least two neighboring jurisdictions; databases provided by CODY. This information could have averted the incident by providing Officer Gregg with critical officer safety alerts about the individual who committed the attack. When CODY learned this, it decided to do something to help the public safety community in Bucks County prevent this type of incident from occurring again.

At the latest Bucks County Chiefs’ meeting, after discussions with their clients in Bucks County, conducting a pilot program which CODY funded, and doing considerable financial evaluation in this difficult economic climate, the company announced its intention to donate a C.O.B.R.A.

system with the following elements.

- 1 license of the C.O.B.R.A. Center-Point Server (which is already being hosted by the Bristol Township Police Department and administered by Det. Bob Lebo).


- Connections for the seven participating CODY RMS clients, in order to allow each of them to synchronize their records information in real-time with the Center-Point Server.

Falls Township

- Bristol Township
- Bensalem
- Newtown Borough
- Warminster
- Northampton Township
- Doylestown Township

- 75 licenses of the C.tac tactical search application, to be used in mobile units across the police departments in the county. C.tac will allow officers in equipped mobile units to search the records databases of the seven participating agencies.


- Web-based training sessions on the use of C.tac.


- Installation, set up, technical and project management services


All these elements will be fully funded by CODY, with no charge to any agency. CODY is also funding the on-going support and maintenance of the system.

“To say that what happened to Officer Gregg and the others was a tragedy is an understatement,” said Fran Heffner, CEO of CODY Systems. “Critical information on suspects should always be at the fingertips of the officers on the street so that incidents like this do not occur. I cannot say that our system would have prevented the struggle that ensued, or spared the life of Officer Gregg and the injury to the others, but that’s why we produce these systems. The death of just one officer in the line of duty that might have otherwise been prevented is one too many, especially when the information that could have saved him resided with two of our clients. We are proud to be in a position to donate our C.O.B.R.A. system to the police officers of Bucks County, and hope that it will help prevent future tragedies like that of Officer Gregg from happening again.”


In addition to the donation of C.O.B.R.A., Newtown Borough has also received a donation of the VPN hardware needed to help connect the Borough to the system. This piece of hardware has been donated by local Bucks County Attorney Kevin Zlock, who grew up in Newtown Borough and was a friend of Officer Gregg.



About CODY Systems

CODY Systems : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. is an industry leader in integrated public safety software for the collection, analysis, and sharing of critical data for public safety, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies for over 30 years. A wholly owned and privately held American company with all operations in the United States, CODY Systems specializes in integrated public safety software solutions and interoperable cross-platform information-sharing for First Preventers. CODY Systems provides state, local and federal agencies the power of its CodyLinks TM relational linking technology and proven technology for real-time tactical data fusion across disparate systems. CODY's industry-leading products include: The CODY Public Safety Suite (Records, Dispatch, Investigations & Intelligence analysis, Mobile Field Reporting and Dispatch Link, etc.), C.O.B.R.A. TM vendor-independent real-time data-sharing and analysis system, ExpressBridge Real-time Data Fusion Framework, and more.



PAN CommunicationsMike Sullivan, 978-474-1900 CODY@pancomm.com : mailto:CODY@pancomm.com