Objective Helps Police Keep Criminals Behind Bars

June 20, 2007: WA Police are finding Objective’s ECM suite is improving cooperation across the country, helping them close cold cases by retrieving suspect information rapidly and joining the dots on disparate information that may have previously been overlooked or not available fast enough.

When faced with an urgent request for information on a suspect being held in custody in Hobart, the WA Police Crime Files Co-ordination Team were able to use Objective’s search technology to locate various case files and physical documents, convert them to PDF and transfer them electronically to the Tasmanian Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB).

According to Objective, the whole process took just 28 minutes and enabled a complete dossier to be created, including data from unsolved cases the suspect was implicated in. With more substantial evidence in hand, the Tasmanian CIB was able to charge the suspect for a string of serious and previously unsolved crimes.

Police say more charges are pending the suspect’s extradition back to WA.

Objective says that feedback from Hobart CIB has been very positive, with the department noting that the result would not have been possible without the system’s ‘intelligence’ capability. WA Police say several other suspects have also been charged for various unsolved crimes using the same methodology and cold case data.

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