Market Trends of Evidence Management Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Evidence Management Market according to our research experts:
Cloud Deployment to Dominate the Market
- Evidence is the backbone of policing and as crimes continue to grow in complexity, police is looking to the cloud to help manage the increase in digital evidence.
- As multimedia becomes abundant, evidence such as images and videos from mobile phones, CCTV, GPS data, SMS and Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) play a greater part in criminal investigations. Their volume is increasing day by day which s causing police to adopt cloud.
- Cloud computing provides several benefits to organizations such as increased flexibility, scalability and reduced cost.
- Deployment on cloud should be scalable, but also acknowledge the privacy and security of sensitive information. For instance, NICE Investigate solution is hosted on the Microsoft Azure Government cloud, as it meets the most stringent compliance standards in the world – including the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy.
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North America to Hold the Highest Market Share
- The market for evidence management has evolved rapidly in the region. Especially, the usage of body worn camera has evolved rapidly, since federal funding programs in the United States for law enforcement body-worn cameras were announced in 2014. This funding and subsequent initiatives have stimulated and accelerated increases in the shipments of body-worn cameras in the United States. More than half of the medium to large police departments in the United States use or are testing body-worn cameras in a pilot program at present.
- Moreover, nearly one third of the 18,000 state and local police departments in the United States are purchasing body-cameras for their officers. This number is only expected to increase, fueling the market’s growth positively. Also, the New Orleans Police Department plans to pay USD 1.2 million for body-cameras, with much of the cost going toward storage. According to largest law enforcement agencies in Kern County, Calif, body-worn cameras would offer a valuable service for officers and the general public.
- According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 43 of 68 police departments in major cities in the United States have body-worn camera programs with policies in place, with 24 making them quickly and publicly available on their department websites. At least five departments: Chicago, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Parker (Colorado), and Washington D.C. provide the individuals who were recorded access to the footage.
- Various companies and startups have made significant investments to increase their presence in the region and aid the adoption rate in the region. The existing companies have been innovating new products, such as body worn cameras and vehicle dash cameras, to expand the product portfolio to gain market traction and increase their market share.
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