Law Enforcement Message Switch/Justice Exchange (LEMS/JX™)

Supporting the seamless exchange of law enforcement and criminal justice information – now cloud-enabled

The Unisys Law Enforcement Message Switch/Justice Exchange (LEMS/JX™) is a software solution designed specifically to support the secure sharing of law enforcement and criminal justice information, either installed on premises, in a secure Criminal Justice Information Services- (CJIS) compliant Unisys Data Center, or in a CJIS cloud environment. The solution enables users to easily access disparate data from various international, federal, state, and local government sources.

​LEMS/JX meets government agency needs for a proven, reliable, and secure message switch solution, which complies with the unique requirements of criminal justice organizations. LEMS/JX™ is an open architecture solution that enables the following key capabilities:

• Allows users to access and manage information in federal, state, and local criminal justice information systems 
• Connects disparate data sets using asynchronous messaging in the format native to each information system 
• Supports a wide variety of message protocols using powerful, configurable, and flexible processing and interface capabilities 
• Provides guaranteed message delivery with high availability and incredibly fast performance using message store and forward capabilities 
• Acts as the control terminal and complete audit point for systems such as the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (Nlets)
• Supports the latest information sharing technologies and standards including the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) 
• Is easily installed on premises, in a Unisys Data Center, or a secure government CJIS cloud

LEMS/JX™ provides access to hundreds of different sources including:

• FBI National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
• Nlets (National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, the International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network )
• National Weather Service (NWS)
• Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) 
• Computerized Criminal History (CCH) systems 
• State Hot Files 
• Firearms databases
• Sexual offender registries
• Background check systems
• Regionalized justice information sharing systems