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indecent images of children , you can see why speed and accuracy are so important ,” explains DS Price KPM .

“ We are often the ones who identify abuse of children and vulnerable persons and then work with the appropriate team to help safeguard victims – even before we move to detain perpetrators . Using this tool , cases that once took months now take weeks . Those that took days can be solved in hours . As such , I can categorically say that the solution has safeguarded children and other vulnerable victims and kept them from further harm .”

Node4 ’ s solution helps West Midlands Police Force comply with the regulations governing how it stores and manages digital data .

This includes ISO17025 2017 , which sets out standards for holding and dealing with exhibits . It ’ s also compliant with the Forensic Science Regulators Act and adheres to Management of Police Information ( MOPI ) standards .

Node4 also monitors all existing regulations and , when necessary , adjusts

storage policies within its managed cloud environment – removing worries about compliance management from the team ’ s daily to-do list .

“ You can imagine , with the data we ’ re dealing with , trust between us and our managed services provider is imperative – and we have established a high degree of trust with Node4 ,” said DS Price KPM .

“ We explained our data management and security requirements to Node4 upfront , which were then built into the framework .”

From an administrative and budgetary standpoint , moving to the cloud has given the digital forensics team the elasticity to scale when data requirements increase . It also allows the team to pull back on capacity when the demand is not so great .

This helps keep departmental IT-related costs down and enables the team to work at the same fast pace , regardless of the number of cases or data volume .

DS Price KPM concludes : “ There ’ s an honest passion from the Node4 team to get this right for us . Their support has been superb throughout the design and roll-out process , with team members going consistently above and beyond . They understand the importance of our work and the intensity and urgency that drives our department . And they ’ ve delivered the tools and framework that allow us to work quickly , accurately and professionally to protect some of society ’ s most vulnerable people .” �

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