Inspectorate calls for more funding and new governance of digital forensics as report paints ‘sorry picture’

3rd January 2023James Sweetland, Policing Insight

Data obtained from digital devices is now as essential to modern police investigations as DNA evidence or fingerprints; but a recent a report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services presents a damning assessment of how forces in England and Wales are handling digital forensics, and calls for new governance structures and more funding, as Policing Insight’s James Sweetland reports.

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