Nature of crime tables – how Roke can provide value

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently released its report on the Nature of crime tables: year ending March 2023. While the report contains no particularly surprising trends, it does indicate increases in emerging social and tech trends.?

Whilst serious matters in their own right, crimes like these are often referred to as ‘Volume Crime’ and are more often than not a responsibility for local, neighbourhood policing. However, there are increasing opportunities for AI, sensing and autonomy to have a positive effect in this space. Volume crime brings with it challenges of evidential quality and handling, disclosure, and audits, but how can Roke help??

Intelligence in action?

The application above is a proof-of-concept demonstrator within the Centri suite of products. Within this application, crime data from the ONS is visualised for the UK. This interactive platform interrogates different areas across the country to understand crime summaries to determine crime trends.??

This tool can be pointed at a wide variety of geospatial datasets and sources. By enabling the automation of data collection, comprehensive near real-time situational awareness can be provided to support decision makers at all levels.?

Crime on social media?

Social media can be an excellent tool for self or business promotion, but the potential for anonymity and the influx of new readily available AI technology means its use to spread crime is on the rise.?

Poor behaviour on social media moving into criminality is providing significant issues of identity, deep faking and proliferation of images and media which only AI can assess at the scale it is being generated.??

While AI is being used in a lot of these instances to proliferate these crimes, it could also be the solution. By working with forces across the UK, our consultants are able to identify where this emerging technology could be best used to add the most value, generating a greater effectiveness in policing.?

Our Intelligence Team already use open-source intelligence (OSINT) to convert publicly available information and data into high-value actionable intelligence in the maritime, national security and insurance industries. This capability could provide huge value when tackling the challenges hidden social media identities and deep faking create. Combined with machine learning and AI we’re able to interpret data to reveal relationships and patterns of rapidly evolving issues to help identify emerging risks in real-time.?

Want to know more about how we could help you? Contact us now: https://www.roke.co.uk/contact-us??