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Volume 30 2018 CHAMPIONS Edition Drowning in a Tsunami of Digital Evidence? Here’s Your Lifeline NICE Investigate can totally transform how your department manages investigations and digital evidence, saving you time and money, improving case solvability, and much more. These very same technologies are creating a tsunami of digital evidence that’s becoming Today, crime solving hinges on digital increasingly difficult to manage. By Rod Guy, VP of Strategy, NICE Public Safety evidence and the volume, velocity and Detectives are drowning in digital evidence, variety of digital evidence is growing​ often having ​ to log in to a dozen or more exponentially. disparate systems to collect evidence and From body-worn cameras and CCTV, to ALPR, CAD, RMS, interview room and 911 recordings, social media, smart devices and in-car video, policing has become entangled in a quagmire of technolo- gies. manually search for connections in cases . They waste time emailing, phoning, filling out paperwork, waiting for analysis results, man- ually sifting through information to connect the dots, driving from place to place, copying evidence onto media to hand deliver to pros- ecutors. 32