MobileCop Enables Collin College Officers to Access Critical Data and

Mary Rose Roberts January 8th, 2009

WALL, N.J., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — BIO-key International, Inc.

(OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification

and wireless public safety, today announced a contract award from the Collin

College Police Department to deploy MobileCop(R), BIO-key’s wireless query and

messaging solution for law enforcement. Collin College is located in Collin

County, one of the fastest growing jurisdictions in the Dallas, Texas

metropolitan area.

As is the case with most campus police departments in the United States,

officers in the Collin College Police Department are licensed peace officers.

They have county-wide jurisdiction and work under the same authority as local

law enforcement personnel. “Campus law enforcement faces the same challenges

that any police department does,” according to Collin College Police

Department Captain Michael Gromatzky. “With more than 44,000 students spread

across five open campuses with day, night and weekend classes, we’re like a

small city.”

With the deployment of BIO-keys’ MobileCop solution, Collin College law

enforcement officers will now be able to obtain critical information - while

at a traffic stop or other incident - on a person or vehicle directly from the

Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (TLETS) using laptops in their

patrol cars. “The biggest benefit of MobileCop is that officers now have at

their fingertips the information they need to make the right decision, without

having to call a dispatcher over the radio to run a plate or check an ID,”

Captain Gromatzky pointed out. “Previously, if the radio was tied up, the

officer was tied up too.”

The ability for dispatchers and officers to use MobileCop to communicate

with each other also serves the unique demands of campus law enforcement. “We

value student privacy very highly,” added Captain Gromatzky. “Confidential

data on a student broadcast over the radio can be overheard or even picked up

by a scanner. Using MobileCop’s silent, secure messaging feature, a dispatcher

can send critical information on a student involved in an incident, for

example, to the responding officer without that risk.”

MobileCop is used by campus police on some of the largest campuses in the

country, including the University of Kentucky, the University of Maryland,

Indiana University and Boston University. “We’re pleased to have Collin

College join the many colleges and universities that rely on our mobile data

solutions to help protect their students, faculty and staff,” said Ken Souza,

Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key’s Law Enforcement

Division. “And we’re continuing to expand our campus safety product offerings

with the recent introduction of our MobileCampus(TM) secure messaging

solution. Now administrators and faculty can communicate directly with campus

police and with each other using BlackBerry smartphones, so everyone can share

information quickly and respond effectively to any on-campus incident.”

About BIO-key

BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered in Wall, New Jersey, develops

and delivers advanced identification solutions and information services to law

enforcement departments, public safety agencies, government and private sector

customers. BIO-key’s mobile wireless technology provides first responders with

critical, reliable, real-time data and images from local, state and national

databases. BIO-key’s high performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-

deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and

authenticates users of wireless and enterprise data to improve security,

convenience and privacy and to reduce identity theft. Over 750 police

departments in North America use BIO-key solutions, making BIO-key the leading

supplier of mobile and wireless solutions for law enforcement.

(http://www.bio-key.com)

(C) Copyright 2009 by BIO-key International, Inc.