Hitachi Vantara Delivers Digital Evidence Management To Enable More Effective Policing
2018年9月20日 - 10:12PM
Hitachi Vantara Delivers Digital Evidence Management To Enable More
Effective Policing
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:
6501), today announced the availability of Hitachi Digital Evidence
Management (HDEM), an integrated solution to address the challenges
of digital evidence management in modern policing.
The exponential increase of digital evidence from
an ever-greater number of sources has challenged law enforcement
with the complex and time-consuming task of identifying and
organizing digital evidence needed for investigation and
prosecution. Law enforcement officials are challenged by compliance
policies and procedures such as evidence disclosure rules. They are
also hampered by antiquated manual processes that can introduce
delays and mistakes from the initial collection of evidence within
existing pools of information to its ongoing management throughout
an investigation. These growing challenges can limit the ability of
law enforcement to manage the collected evidence efficiently and
ensure that it is available when required.
The HDEM solution provides an opportunity for law
enforcement to meet these challenges and set new standards for
using evidence in today’s digital world.
Hitachi Digital Evidence Management is highly
scalable, permitting the collection of data from any digital source
so it can be placed in context for an investigation or prosecution.
This includes body-worn and car video cameras, mobile phones,
documents, closed-circuit television (CCTV) and other digital
information sources. Using HDEM, law enforcement can identify and
associate evidence with a particular case, and secure, analyze,
clip, redact and handle it according to the guidelines of police
information management in the local jurisdiction. Measures to
enable GDPR compliance are built into the application together with
security and user provisioning to assist law enforcement in
building criminal cases and gaining further intelligence from the
collected digital evidence.
By automating the discovery, processing, analysis,
organization, storage and sharing of information that is retrieved
from multiple evidential sources, HDEM is data-agnostic, meaning
that it even works with dissimilar data formats from multiple
sources. This capability allows law enforcement to paint a
comprehensive and integrated evidential picture and supports
prosecution efforts, helping law enforcement lead criminal cases to
more efficient and effective closure.
HDEM also manages evidential continuity and
integrity issues to prevent challenges to its validity. The
solution allows seamless delivery of evidence packages to the
prosecuting authorities for both pre-charging decisions and case
progression. The core HDEM platform ingests data from the
repositories of existing endpoint devices such as body-worn video
and has web portals available for the public and partners to upload
possible evidence directly into the solution. Additional modules
are available, including live facial matching for greater insight
from the collected digital evidence.
Hitachi Digital Evidence Management is available
initially for police and law enforcement agencies within Abu Dhabi,
Australia, Canada, Denmark, Dubai, India, Singapore, Sweden and the
United Kingdom. HDEM will be expanded into other countries and
localized for additional use cases in the future. HDEM is available
on a price-per-officer subscription basis.
Supporting Quotes
“It can be challenging and time-consuming to
collect and manage all of the diverse types of digital evidence we
require for effective policing,” said Andrew White, assistant chief
officer at Lincolnshire Police. “Hitachi Digital Evidence
Management are working with Lincolnshire Police to prove there is a
solution to manage, secure, share and analyse all the digital
evidence we acquire helping us to ensure that investigations are
conducted efficiently, and evidence is disclosed in the right
manner at the appropriate time. In turn, this will help us to
provide effective policing by being able to focus our resources on
solving crimes and have a positive impact on our communities.”
“We are collecting more and more information from
digital sources every day in separate silos and are faced with the
challenges of scale, privacy and security,” says Mike Barton, chief
constable, Durham Constabulary. “Hitachi Digital Evidence
Management delivers a scalable evidence platform that will help us
protect our citizens’ privacy while allowing us to prevent crime
and apprehend and prosecute criminals more effectively. The people
of County Durham and Darlington can be confident that we will
deploy innovation in policing that makes our communities safer by
using Hitachi Digital Evidence Management.”
About Hitachi Vantara Hitachi
Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., helps
data-driven leaders find and use the value in their data to
innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business
and society. We combine technology, intellectual property and
industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help
enterprises improve their customers’ experiences, develop new
revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Only Hitachi
Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining deep
information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and domain
expertise. We work with organizations everywhere to drive data to
meaningful outcomes. Visit us at www.HitachiVantara.com.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.Hitachi, Ltd.
(TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers innovations
that answer society’s challenges, combining its operational
technology, information technology, and products/systems. The
company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2017 (ended March 31,
2018) totaled 9,368.6 billion yen ($88.4 billion). The Hitachi
Group is an innovation partner for the IoT era, and it has
approximately 307,000 employees worldwide. Through collaborative
creation with customers, Hitachi is deploying Social Innovation
Business using digital technologies in a broad range of sectors,
including Power/Energy, Industry/Distribution/Water, Urban
Development, and Finance/Social Infrastructure/Healthcare. For more
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