Akkodis Drives Insights from Data at Speed to Empower Police Investigators Solve Crime Faster

Business Challenges


Today, Police must deal with huge volumes of digital information in investigations and intelligence operations – call records, documents, mobile devices, computers, email and text messages, financial transactions, images, video, social media, and the rich information in core Policing systems. Sifting through these datasets looking for important information is time consuming and requires huge effort from investigators. Specialist analysts’ skills are often required but are hard to access. Today’s analytics tools are either focused on singular datasets, unable to deal with huge datasets, require onsite specialists or are prohibitively expensive. Working with our clients and partners and applying our 10+ years of experience in Law Enforcement and Justice, Akkodis has developed the Söze Analytics Platform to address this need.

Our Solution


Söze has been developed in collaboration with The Western Australia Police Force to solve real problems and deliver tangible benefits that impact on policing results. Söze is a secure scalable platform that is able to ingest huge volumes of digital information, discover entities of potential interest to Police, and importantly also discover the relationships between those entities. Using the power of the cloud and artificial intelligence, further insights can be discovered from information assets connected across multiple data domains. The team worked closely with Investigators to ensure that the user experience is focused on Police investigators. 

Technologies used:

  • CosmosDB
  • Cognitive services
  • SignalR
  • Function Apps
  • Custom ML Algorithms
  • Computer Vision
  • Agile Methodology

Söze is able to:
 

  • Discover and analyze networks of people, locations, phone calls, messages, and images. Videos, documents, financial information, and social media will soon be available
  • Identifying locations, objects and faces in images via machine learning and image analytics
  • Rapidly determine link & frequency within communication networks
  • Identify the center of networks of people
  • Track people and objects in time-and-space across all data sources.

The value to Police investigations and intelligence operations are large:

  • Reduce the time Police need to find important insights – critical to time-sensitive investigations
  • Huge increase in productivity of Police investigators and analysts – less time manually wrangling data, more time interpreting and analyzing the discovered objects, connections, and analytics results
  • Significant risk reduction of Police not finding important information for an Investigation
  • Reduced time being exposed to potentially objectionable material, reducing impact on health and welfare of Police officers and staff.
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