The technology, which can find possible leads that might not have been discovered during a manual search of the evidence, is being tested by Avon and Somerset Police.
Australian-developed Soze is a technology that can analyze papers, emails, social media, financial transactions, and video recordings all at once.
According to an evaluation, it completed the analysis of the evidence in 27 complex instances in just 30 hours, compared to an estimated 81 years for a human.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council head, Gavin Stephens, stated that some of the most infamous and ancient unresolved crimes in the nation may be resolved with the application of technology.
“I could imagine this sort of thing being really useful for cold case reviews,” he stated to reporters.
this,”I can see that being really, really helpful. You might have a cold case review that just looks impossible because of the amount of material there. You feed it into a system like this which can just ingest it, then give you an assessment of it.”