Digital devices are everywhere – and so is digital evidence. From fraud and trafficking to child exploitation and terrorism, nearly every crime today leaves a digital trail. According to the UK’s National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), over 90% of crimes now have a digital element. Yet, most investigators lack the digital forensics tools needed to quickly analyse growing volumes of devices, data, and complex encrypted evidence.
Investigators must now retrieve evidence from computers, servers, laptops, smartphones, IoT devices, drones, burner phones, loose media, cloud storage, and more. To add to that, the field is impacted by towering backlogs and data silos. Given these challenges, how can law enforcement efficiently navigate vast amounts of digital evidence to stay ahead of offenders, especially with limited resources?
This is where the Detego Digital Forensics Ecosystem comes in. Purpose-built to empower police officers and investigators with insights from over two decades of close collaboration with law enforcement teams worldwide, the Detego platform combines cutting-edge, patented technology with speed and simplicity, enabling teams to collect, analyse, and act on critical digital evidence at record setting speeds – both in the field and in the lab.
The Latest Features Revolutionising Investigations
With its end-to-end approach, ease of use and portability that makes it suitable for lab and on-scene deployments, the Detego Unified Digital Forensics Platform helps investigators eliminate bottlenecks, streamline processes, and provide the tools they need to build court-ready cases. Detego Global’s latest updates bring even greater speed and precision to investigations.
Ultra-Fast Triage with Xpress HashScan
Detego Field Triage‘s Xpress HashScan Mode now identifies images and videos relevant to investigations up to 6x faster, with all file types processed up to 3x faster. This breakthrough enables investigators to identify crime-linked devices in seconds, dramatically reducing the need for complete data extractions and analysis of suspect devices – time-consuming processes that have contributed to significant forensic backlogs across law enforcement.
The tool’s extensive customisation options support diverse investigations, from financial crime and terrorism to child abuse and human trafficking. Investigators can deploy custom keyword lists, case-specific hash sets, and alerts for a range of investigation types, including modern slavery, insider trading, harassment, human trafficking, and child exploitation. Meanwhile, Field Triage’s seamless integration with CAID and Project VIC databases provides investigators with insights into millions of known ICAC and CSAM materials, fast-tracking investigations.
Field Triage’s plug-and-play capability enables rapid deployments via removable storage or external drives. Its intuitive interface features a patented red-amber-green alert system that instantly highlights investigation-critical data, enabling both technical and non-technical users to quickly determine which devices require full forensic analysis – helping tackle mounting case backlogs.
Advanced AI-Driven Analytics with Detego Analyse AI+
Detego Analyse AI+ transforms digital investigations with its comprehensive suite of offline AI-powered tools. Unlike cloud-based solutions that pose data security risks, investigators can harness advanced AI capabilities while ensuring sensitive case data remains fully secure on local systems.
The platform’s AI-powered analytics accelerate evidence discovery across all investigation types – be it investigations into fraud, human trafficking, child abuse, terrorism, or organised crime. Its industry-leading face recognition processes over 20 faces per second to identify victims, suspects, and other persons of interest in record time, while semantic search goes beyond traditional keywords and hash matches to identify complex concepts and contexts such as “screenshots of customer account details”, “distressed children in a warehouse”, “men holding weapons in a city at night”, or “masked individuals waving flags with terror symbolism”.
Whether tracking stolen goods, identifying suspects, or uncovering organised crime networks, investigators can quickly analyse vast sets of images and videos using automated detection tools and powerful image-matching capabilities.
Analyse AI+’s multilingual capabilities – including OCR, offline translation of 100+ languages and cross-language capabilities, and audio/video transcription at 1,000+ words per minute – help investigators tackle global cases efficiently. Combined with advanced decryption support for 300+ file formats and steganography detection, Analyse AI+ helps investigators quickly access and analyse hidden or protected evidence. By seamlessly unlocking and reporting on vital insights from forensic acquisitions from Detego tools and third-party software, Analyse AI+ is key in reducing case backlogs and building iron-clad cases in record time.
Expanding Reach with MD-CLOUD
As criminals increasingly leverage cloud platforms and storage to facilitate crimes, tools like MD-CLOUD that sit within the Detego platform enable investigators to extend their reach beyond physical devices, providing forensic access to mobile data, IoT devices, cloud storage, and encrypted apps to uncover critical evidence.
Well-Being in Policing
Bearing in mind the heavy emotional toll these investigations can take, Detego prioritises investigator well-being with features that reduce exposure to distressing content. Image Blurring and Thumbnail Removal help shield officers from unnecessary trauma while ensuring critical evidence is identified.
Real-World Impact
Detego Global is already making a tangible difference for police forces worldwide. By combining industry-leading technology with user-friendly design and enhanced portability, the platform helps officers uncover vital evidence faster. Investigators can eliminate backlogs and act on data in any setting – be it crime scenes, police cars, forensic labs, airports, borders and kiosks at police stations.
While these capabilities highlight a few key benefits of Detego technology, there’s much more to explore. Request a free trial to see how this cutting-edge technology can help your team solve cases faster.
