Digital Evidence Management

Police Technology Forum

28th March 2017

Copyright: Capita Secure Information Solutions Ltd 2017

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The challenges…

“Police forces ‘overwhelmed’ by digital evidence, watchdog finds”3 November 2016

‘Massive increase in data from interviews, CCTV, Crime scenes, BWV, public videos, GoPro’s,

vehicle cameras and drones ’

“Guaranteeing the chain of custody and integrity as Digital Evidence becomes all pervasive”

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Capita in Policing

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provide solutions to……

100% UK Police Services for some part

of their policing solution

And Internationally we provide solutions to….

• Royal Malaysian Police

• Algeria Police

• Brunei Police

Plus Command and Control systems to

• National Norwegian Fire and Rescue

• National Netherlands Coastguard Service

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people

74,000 people

350 sites

20131984 2017

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Successfully delivering Emergency

Control Systems including…

• New South Wales Police Force

• Queensland Police Service

• Tasmanian Police

• Fire and Rescue New South Wales

• ACT Emergency Services Agency

• Tasmanian DPFEM ESCAD

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Digital Evidence from a customers view, Avon and Somerset

1.5 million people

3,400 police force

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Avon and Somerset Enterprise DEM Solution Design

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Open & Scalable Purpose Built

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Supportable Integrated Workflow & Automation

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Avon and Somerset phased implementation

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Avon and Somerset Enterprise DEM data flows

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Data sharing & integration – Body Worn Video Integration

Two types of Body Worn Video

integration: Direct and Indirect

Direct integration for unmanaged

ingestion & for unencrypted cameras

Indirect integration for cameras with:

Camera management software

Decryption of video files

Indirect may require management of

ingestion or be seamless to Officer

No data duplication

with either process.

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EvidenceWorks® Avon and Somerset Solution Stack Overview

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Benefits for Avon and Somerset

Continuity of Evidence

from capture to court

Remove or reduce

Digital Repositories silos

De-risk technology ‘lock in’

Single Point Integration with

local, regional and national

Protect specialist teams

and facilities for serious crime

Reduce physical media

Handling and costs

Flexible storage solutions

Protect core systems from

demands of video handling

Product investment

guided by Police

Streamlined processes

Reduced handling

time of evidence

Access for all

3,400 officers

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Digital Evidence Case Study, Avon and Somerset

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A&S next steps Data sharing & integration – Officer upload of evidence

Upload files tagged with

operational reference number

e.g. RMS number or incident

reference.

Mobile Evidence upload

Officer friendly web page optimised for access on an Officer’s smart

phone

Allow single or multiple photo or video upload to EvidenceWorks

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A&S next steps - Data sharing & integration – Secure data sharing portal

Key features for sharing date with nominated 3rd parties

2 factor authentication for secure access

Evidence access properties:

Download play/view file

Live streaming

Evidence access restrictions:

one-time play

multiple plays

time-limited play/view.

Secure

Architecture

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A&S next steps - Data sharing & integration – Public Portal

Secure Portal

Architecture

Public portal to allow members of the general public to submit potential

evidence against a valid reference number

Controlled access to portal - submission of evidence trigged by Officer request

Secure login to public portal.

Submission of evidence by victim

All activity fully audited.

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Market Position for EvidenceWorks

EvidenceWorks platform used in

15 forces in the UK

47,000 licenced users

Over 1,000 IRS devices

Over 1.5 million evidence items

being managed by the software

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Enterprise DEM as opposed to specialist DEM

Edge device

agnosticIntegration to

RMS and sharing

portals Future Proof

Multiple

deployment

options

Industry leading

security standardsScalability /

Availability

Policing centricSophisticated

Retention

Rules No data lossAudit, Audit,

Audit

Enterprise security

model AD integrationMultivendor

Integration

Automatic BWV

integration

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EvidenceWorks® ECOsystem

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Futures for Digital Evidence

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Questions and Answers

http://www.evidence-works.com/

Contact: Joe Griffiths

Email: joe.griffiths@capita.com

Tel: 0422 591 263