In an effort to better secure the commonwealth against criminal activity and domestic and international terrorism, federal and state agencies have banded together to create the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center to improve intelligence sharing among public safety and public service agencies.
The center has been heralded as a milestone in achieving a unified hub to coordinate and connect all levels of law enforcement and public safety agencies, including fire, health and transportation, and the private sector. A new telephone hotline, 1-866-EYE-ON-KY (1-866-393-6659), is also now available for residents to report suspicious or criminal activity of any kind.
The principle role of the Intelligence Fusion Center is to compile, blend, analyze and disseminate criminal intelligence and other information (including, but not limited to, threat assessment, public safety, law enforcement, public health, social service and public works) and to support efforts to anticipate, identify, prevent and monitor criminal activity.
The ultimate goal is to provide a mechanism where law enforcement, public safety and the private sector can come together with a common purpose to improve the ability to safeguard our homeland and prevent criminal activity.
The Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center is currently a collaboration of the following agencies:
Kentucky Office of Homeland Security
Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center
Kentucky State Police
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Kentucky Department of Corrections
Kentucky Department of Military Affairs
Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
United States Department of Homeland Security
United States Secret Service
Lexington Division of Police
Capabilities of the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center:
- Provide all crimes and terrorism intelligence analytical services
- Supports the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) with counter-terrorism investigators
- Assists all federal, state and local law enforcement with their request for information on suspects by utilizing available databases
- Assist law enforcement in the location of subjects
- Assist law enforcement with suspect vehicle registration
- Assist law enforcement with suspect driver license photo and data
- Serves as the conduit for law enforcement’s request for information from other state fusion centers
- Serves as a repository for the state’s identified critical infrastructures.
- Receives Field Intelligence Reports and other reports from law enforcement officers from their in car mobile data computers through the Kentucky Open Portal Solution (KyOps)
- Receives state-wide all crimes tips through a toll free hotline 1-866 - Eye-On-KY and/or website submission
- Law enforcement radio and data communications capability through Kentucky State Police Communications which is located in the fusion center
- Telecommunications for Kentucky State Police Headquarters and Kentucky Vehicle Enforcement
- Kentucky Arson and DUI hotline center
- Kentucky Amber Alert Notification
- Connected to the United States Department of Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), which is an intelligence and information sharing network
- Connected to the FBI Law Enforcement Online (LEO), which is an intelligence and information sharing network
- Connected to the Regional Organized Crime Information Center, which is an intelligence and information sharing network for fourteen southeastern states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Receives intelligence briefings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Both secure and non secure video conferencing capability
- Limited linguistic support
- Traffic and incident management center that monitors highway construction, maintenance, weather and other events
- Monitors and updates the Kentucky 511 phone and website system
- Monitors websites of regional traffic centers in Louisville, Lexington, and Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati
- Monitors live video feed of selected traffic sites throughout Kentucky
- Monitors the 24 hour news channels for situational awareness
- Monitors the National Weather Service
- Monitors sensitive material convoy while traveling through the state
- Monitors Emergency Operations Center incidents
- Radio communications center for SAFE Patrol Program, which is a motorist aid program