Securium helps police analyse digital evidence faster

Surrey Research Park based technology company and SETsquared Surrey member Securium has been partnered with Devon and Cornwall Police to demonstrate how its software can dramatically reduce the time it takes to review digital communications in safeguarding investigations.

Turning overwhelming data into actionable insight

Modern police investigations often involve vast amounts of digital evidence, usually over millions of messages across multiple devices. Reviewing this material manually can take days or weeks of specialist officer time, placing significant pressure on already stretched teams.

Securium’s Safeguard software is designed to tackle this challenge. The system rapidly analyses digital conversations and highlights those that show potential signs of harm or risk, allowing investigators to focus their expertise where it matters most.

In one operational case with Devon and Cornwall Police, Safeguard analysed over 88,000 chat messages in under 20 minutes, identifying a small but significant number of priority conversation threads requiring immediate attention. A manual review of the same data would typically have taken several hours. The force estimated a 36-hour time saving on this single case, with far greater efficiencies expected when the technology is applied across wider caseloads.

Supporting investigators, not replacing them

Safeguard is designed to support investigators in finding important evidence, not to automate decision-making. By surfacing conversations that may indicate risk, the software helps officers spend less time searching through data and more time using their expertise to safeguard victims and progress investigations.

Following reviews by national policing colleagues, the work was described as encouraging, highlighting the operational value of combining investigator expertise with advanced digital analysis tools.

The collaboration with Devon and Cornwall Police builds on earlier work by Securium with other UK police forces facing similar digital evidence challenges.

Commenting on the partnership, Dr Anna Vartapetiance, CEO and Co-Founder of Securium, said:

“We are incredibly grateful to the Devon & Cornwall team for their dedication and partnership. Investigators deal with unprecedented volumes of digital data within which important signs of harms and crimes can easily remain hidden. We are happy that our software has helped investigators to find such signs quickly, allowing for focus of their expertise where it matters – in protecting victims and progressing prosecutions.”

As police forces across the UK continue to adapt to the scale and complexity of digital evidence, Securium’s work with Devon and Cornwall Police demonstrates how focused, investigator-led technology can improve efficiency while supporting better safeguarding outcomes.