Every police investigation is a race against time.
The first 48 to 72 hours are critical. The longer it takes to develop a lead, identify a suspect or make an arrest, the lesser the chances of solving the case, or obtaining a guilty plea or successful prosecution.
Compounding this, today’s outdated investigative tools are no match for growing digital evidence.
Investigators often have to log onto a dozen systems to collect evidence, then manually sift through it to connect the dots. They then spend even more hours emailing, phoning, filling out paperwork, waiting for analysis results, driving from place to place, and copying and hand delivering files to the DA.
If this all sounds familiar to you, you may be relieved to hear there is a better way.
NICE, a Platinum ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner for Three Consecutive Years in the Annual ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with FBI National Academy Associates (FBINAA), to help your organization alleviate some of these pitfalls, solve today’s digital evidence and incident information management challenges, and accelerate your investigations.
The FBINAA, is an international organization of 17,000 senior law enforcement professionals dedicated to providing our communities, states, countries, and profession with the highest degree of law enforcement expertise, training, education and information.
(Learn More. Crime solving in the 21st century hinges on digital evidence. Paper silos have been replaced by digital silos and these silos are growing faster than ever, creating a tidal wave of digital evidence that’s increasingly challenging to collect, analyze and share. Here from former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, a nationally recognized leader in law enforcement with five decades of law enforcement service, discuss these challenges and share his insights on how a new digital investigation and evidence management solution, NICE Investigate, can help. Courtesy of NICE and YouTube. Posted on Oct 18, 2018.)
Under this new agreement, NICE and FBINAA will collaborate on various educational and research initiatives in support of this mission, including webinars, member surveys, and more.
With 17,000 members, the FBINAA is the strongest law enforcement leadership network in the world, committed to strengthening the rule of law around the globe.
Members are graduates of the FBI’s prestigious National Academy Program, representing all 50 states, 170 countries and over 7,500 law enforcement agencies.
“FBINAA members make up the highest one percent of all senior law enforcement in the world,” explained Howard M. Cook, FBINAA Executive Director.
“Our mission is to promote law enforcement leadership through research, peer networking, and the highest levels of professional development and training.
“The FBINAA is built on the foundation of knowledge, courage and integrity, and as such, we are committed to strategically aligning ourselves with organizations that share these core values.”
“NICE’s support will enable us to continue to meet this commitment to our members, while enhancing the knowledge and professionalism of the law enforcement community throughout the world.”
“Recognized as the premier provider of law enforcement expertise, training and education, the FBINAA is dedicated to promoting improved leadership, operational efficiency, safer communities, and higher standards of law enforcement throughout the world,” added Chris Wooten, Executive Vice President, NICE.
“As a leading technology company in law enforcement, NICE is also committed to supporting this mission through leading-edge technology, knowledge transfer and training, and we are delighted to be working with FBINAA towards that end.”
Specifically, as strategic alliance partners, NICE and FBINAA will collaborate on:
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Educational Webinars:
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The series of educational webinars will focus on Next Generation Digital Evidence Management, and will educate law enforcement leaders on how to transform the investigative process through automation, while empowering investigators to save time, work smarter, and solve cases faster.
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The first webinar successfully took place on Thursday, April 4, 2019.
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Local and National Events:
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The FBINAA also supports its members through a global network of forty-eight chapters, as well as national events.
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Retired Chiefs Daniel Dvorak and Lee Russo, both Public Safety Consultants for NICE, will present an educational presentation at the FBINAA’s 55th Annual National Conference in Phoenix (AZ) on July 23, 2019.
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The session, titled ‘The Digital Evidence Conundrum: Let’s Fix It Before It Breaks Us‘, will highlight the key digital evidence challenges departments are facing and offer recommendations to address them.
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(Learn More. Courtesy of phxpd and YouTube. Posted on Feb 28, 2019.)
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Research Surveys:
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NICE and FBINAA will conduct a series of research surveys to identify key digital evidence management challenges that departments are facing and plans for the future.
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Over 3,000 organizations worldwide rely on NICE Public Safety solutions to integrate and put into context information from many sources to help emergency communications centers and investigation departments reconstruct and understand the who, what, when, where and why of an incident.
NICE Inform, the industry-leading digital evidence management (DEM) solution, gives emergency control rooms better insight into how to continuously improve their operations.
(Next Generation 9-1-1 and LTE broadband networks are fundamentally changing emergency communications. Public Safety Answering Points, at the center of the convergence of these two broadband networks, are becoming Intelligence Centers. PSAPs need to be able to effectively receive, capture, analyze and share multimedia communications with first responders, prosecutors and citizens. To embrace this new role, you need a single view and source of truth to improve resource planning and operational performance, where you can search for incident recordings using CAD data to fulfill records requests and perform Quality Assurance reviews in half the time, where there’s no waiting for the reports you need, and you can make more informed decisions with clear, accurate information. See how NICE Inform Elite can help. Courtesy of NICE and YouTube. Posted on Aug 1, 2018.)
NICE Investigate is the leading open, digital policing solution that automates and expedites the entire digital investigation process, helping to increase case clearance rates.
NICE a Double Award Winner in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program
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Best 911 Recording & Analytics
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NICE Inform
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Best Investigation/ Surveil/Detection Software
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NICE Investigate
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*NICE was also recognized with 2017 and 2016 ‘ASTORS’ Award Wins
The Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program is specifically designed to honor distinguished government and vendor solutions that deliver enhanced value, benefit and intelligence to end users in a variety of government, homeland security and public safety vertical markets.
The 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program drew an overwhelming response from industry leaders with a record high number of corporate and government nominations received, as well as record breaking ‘ASTORS’ Presentation Luncheon Attendees, with top firms trying to register for the exclusive high – end luncheon and networking opportunity – right up to the event kickoff on Wednesday afternoon, at the ISC East registration!
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