ICOP Digital Announces Formation of Corporate Advisory Board; Appoints Internationally Acclaimed Former NYPD Chief Lou Anemone A
14 Dezember 2005 - 2:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Advisory Board to Advise Senior Leadership on Strategic and Overall
Business Development LENEXA, Kan., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- ICOP Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:ICOP) (PCX:ICOP), a leading provider
of digital in-car video systems for law enforcement, today
announced the formation of a Corporate Advisory Board, created to
advise the senior management team on strategic and overall business
development with an overriding objective of assisting ICOP Digital
in achieving greater market penetration. Former NYPD Chief Lou
Anemone, who has achieved international acclaim in the global law
enforcement industry, has been appointed as the Advisory Board's
founding member. Over the coming months, ICOP expects to expand the
Board with the addition of up to six more members. Commenting on
the appointment, Dave Owen, Chief Executive Officer of ICOP
Digital, noted, "I consider it an immense privilege to have one of
the most accomplished law enforcement and domestic security experts
in the Country join the ICOP team. As the founding member of our
newly formed Corporate Advisory Board, Lou will undoubtedly play a
significant role and have profound impact on the long term success
of ICOP Digital." Chief Lou Anemone is a 35 year veteran of the New
York Police Department. For the last five years of his tenure, he
was the Chief Operating Officer, the highest sworn officer rank in
the Department. Further, Anemone is noted as one of the
co-developers of the Compstat Unit, created to provide the
Department with snapshots of preliminary crime statistics which
allow tactical planning and deployment of resources to fight crime.
In 1996, Compstat received national recognition as a recipient of
the Ford Foundation and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Award for Innovations in American Government. During his tenure
with the NYPD, homicides were reduced 60 percent, violent crime
dropped 50 percent, and police use of deadly force fell 60%.
Anemone also played a key role in the 1995 merger of the New York
Housing Police Department and the New York City Transit Police
Department into the New York Police Department. In 1996, Chief
Anemone made sure the Cold Case Squad was successfully put into
place with some of the best detectives from the newly merged police
departments. He now owns and operates his own law enforcement and
counter-terrorism consulting company, Anemone Consulting, Inc.,
which in addition to providing law enforcement consulting services,
is developing software which will accomplish worldwide some of the
things that Compstat did for New York City. He frequently lectures
around the country about domestic security, most recently at a
conference at Northeastern University, which was jointly sponsored
by The Police Institute at Rutgers University, Boston Police
Department and Massachusetts' Public Safety Department. Chief
Anemone is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of
Police and the International Association of Law Enforcement
Intelligence Analysts. He was Vice Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Nyack Hospital, where he served from 1999-2004 and was
a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way. In addition,
Chief Anemone served as the Deputy Director of the New York State
Office of Public Security in the immediate aftermath of the attacks
of September 11th 2001, and most recently (December 2001 - May
2003) as the inaugural Deputy Executive Director/Security of the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. In this most
recent assignment, Chief Anemone worked to improve security (again,
after the attacks of 9-11), throughout the entire transportation
system of New York, including bridges, tunnels, buses, subways and
railroads. About ICOP Digital, Inc. ICOP Digital, Inc. is a
Kansas-based company that delivers innovative, mission-critical
security, surveillance, and communications solutions that provide
timely and accurate information for security for the public and
private sectors, to monitor and protect people, assets and profits.
The ICOP Model 20/20(TM) is the leading digital in-car video
recorder system, for use by law enforcement. ICOP Digital is
committed to providing surveillance and communications solutions
that help our customers improve their safety and security, through
effective deployments of innovative technologies. ICOP Digital,
Inc. is dual listed on the Nasdaq SmallCap market and the PCX, and
the common stock and warrants trade under the ticker symbols "ICOP"
and "ICOPW," respectively. For more information, please visit
http://www.icop.com/ . Safe Harbor Statement This document contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to vary materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements. The Company may experience significant fluctuations in
future operating results due to a number of economic, competitive,
and other factors, including, among other things, our reliance on
third party manufacturers and suppliers, government agency
budgetary and political constraints, new or increased competition,
changes in market demand, and the performance or reliability of our
products. These factors and others could cause operating results to
vary significantly from those in prior periods, and those projected
in forward-looking statements. Additional information with respect
to these and other factors, which could materially affect the
Company and its operations, are included in certain forms the
Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For
more information, contact: Laura E. Owen, COO 16801 West 116th
Street Lenexa, KS 66219 USA Phone: (913) 338-5550 Fax: (913)
312-0264 http://www.icop.com/ For Investor Relations: Elite
Financial Communications Group, LLC Dodi Handy, President and CEO
Phone: (407) 585-1080 DATASOURCE: ICOP Digital, Inc. CONTACT: Laura
E. Owen, COO of ICOP Digital, Inc., +1-913-338-5550, or fax,
+1-913-312-0264, or ; or Investor Relations, Dodi Handy, President
and CEO of Elite Financial Communications Group, LLC,
+1-407-585-1080, or , for ICOP Digital Web site:
http://www.icopdigital.com/
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