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May 5 2006

BIO-key International, Inc., a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Houston, Texas to equip its police officers with 59 PocketCop enabled Blackberry handheld devices.

PocketCop is the first handheld application that provides law enforcement agencies with a fully integrated mobile data system. Using Nextel's public wireless infrastructure, PocketCop will provide MTA police officers with mobile, access to local, state and national criminal justice databases for information on persons, vehicles, and weapons.

Many of the 1200 law enforcement agencies across the county that make up BIO-key's user base have started implementing this new technology, sites such as the Houston MTA and the US Postal Police to name a few. The need for data and information for first responders anytime, anyplace, anywhere is experiencing significant growth.

"The challenge faced by the Houston MTA and other law enforcement agencies is to equip their personnel with secure, cost effective tools that are easy to use. It's imperative that officers have access to real-time information all the time, whether they are on foot or on bicycle," said Ken Souza, General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Group. "PocketCop's capability to run on virtually every private and public network and on the widest array of handheld devices is the perfect solution for Law Enforcement Agencies, no matter how big or small they are."



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