NEWS RELEASE

ALABAMA LAW ENFORCEMENT POUNDS PROPERTY CRIME WITH SMART TECHNOLOGY

DALLAS, August 17, 2004 - The Property Crime Recovery Investigators of Alabama (PCRIA) and LeadsOnline, the nation's largest web-based investigative system, have partnered to enable state-wide system implementation by Alabama law enforcement agencies.

LeadsOnline provides law enforcement investigators a powerful, data rich and user-friendly search engine that allows them to rapidly comb tens of millions of transaction receipts from pawn and secondhand stores across the country, looking for suspects and stolen property.

Historically, Alabama investigators and administrative staff have manually collected stacks of paper tickets weekly from pawn stores in their respective jurisdictions, and then hand-sorted and input the receipts into databases - a time-consuming, error-prone process that didn't produce the results desired by law enforcement or victims of crime. Crime clearance rates remained bleakly low, as did those for associated arrest and recovery.

In contrast, data is uploaded to LeadsOnline daily via the Web by more than 2000 pawn and secondhand stores across the country to a secure database. This technology makes critically relevant information available to law enforcement within hours of a crime. No more searching through out-dated boxes of paper store receipts, or ill-equipped, home-grown databases.

More than 270 law enforcement agencies across the country have selected LeadsOnline as a critically useful tool in their investigations of crimes involving property - from burglary to homicide, arson, identity theft and narcotics crimes.

Alabama law enforcement agencies who currently utilize LeadsOnline include Attala Police Department, Autauga Police Department, Elmore County Sheriff's Office, Etowah County Sheriff's Office, Gadsden Police Department, Montgomery Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, Moody Police Department, Prattville Police Department, Rainbow City Police Department and Tuscaloosa Police Department.

In 2003, LeadsOnline received the endorsement of the Property Crime Recovery Investigators of Alabama (PCRIA), following a vote of its law enforcement membership across the state. Said Paul Logan, president of PCRIA, "LeadsOnline is a tool that allows the pawn industry and law enforcement to work together cooperatively in stopping habitual property crime offenders who not only victimize the people they steal from, but also pawn store operators. It's fully possible that the LeadsOnline system could be fully deployed in the state of Alabama by the end of 2004. PCRIA is fully committed to making this happen for the benefit of the citizens of our great state."

For more information on LeadsOnline, visit www.leadsonline.com, or call 972-361-0900. To learn more about PCRIA, visit www.pcria.org.

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