Top Technologies to Accelerate
Investigations
The top technologies that law enforcement organizations
believe will have the most impact in accelerating
investigations are AI-powered predictive analytics (48%)
and GenAI for data exploration and analysis (47%), as
seen in Figure 9.
Although GenAI technologies are still evolving, they hold
significant promise for addressing the challenge of information
overload in investigations. Gen AI has the potential to help
investigators and analysts in a myriad of ways, for example
by enabling the querying of data using simple questions in
natural language, and summarizing large volumes of text to
extract key insights with the click of a mouse.
Clearly there is a strong focus currently on GenAI, with
GenAI chatbots and tools considered to be the top
technologies enabling criminals to accelerate crime and
evade detection (Figure 1).
When further examining those who rated AI-powered predictive
analytics as the top technology to accelerate investigations,
we see that the bigger the organization size, the more they
value the potential of AI (Figure 10). This makes sense given
that larger law enforcement organizations tend to have
access to more data, and since they are generally more
technologically advanced, they are also better equipped to put
new AI technologies into practice.
Top Technologies to Accelerate Investigations
Use of AI-Powered Predictive Analytics by Organization Size
Figure 9
Figure 10
48% 47% 42%
35% 37% 38%
57%
50%
42%
AI-powered predictive
analytics
Data fusion
GenAI for data
exploration & analysis
Open-source intelligence
Video analytics
Blockchain analytics
+5,000 personnel
1,000 - 5,000 personnel
<1,000 personnel
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