Secure Digital Evidence Capture and Control

Law enforcement personnel increasingly use digital cameras on their vests, helmets, and dashboards to capture critical evidence everywhere. Even smartphones and tablets store crucial pictures and videos from crime scenes. However, the evidence captured and stored using unsecured digital devices isn’t always admissible in court.

Inkscreen, a developer of secure content capture solutions, addresses this uncertainty for law enforcement agencies with its judiciary-approved flagship product, CAPTOR®. Its approval by regulatory agencies across the U.S. and Europe makes it a go-to tool for law enforcement agencies. CAPTOR empowers personnel to easily capture, manage, and protect evidence in a secure and authorized digital environment.

“Our product has been called a camera app on steroids wearing a bulletproof vest, as it lets law enforcement personnel capture photos, videos, and audios that hold in a court of law. The content is controlled and managed by IT administrators to prevent data leakage,” says Josh Bohls, president of Inkscreen.

CAPTOR acts as a productivity tool, combining the functionalities of a camera, document scanner, video and audio recorder, QR Code reader, and annotator in a single app. This functionality aids officers with collecting all forms of digital evidence and conducting recorded interviews. The sensitive content is securely transferred and stored in a central database, on-premise, or the cloud, minimizing their job on the field. CAPTOR also creates audio transcripts with a tagged location of the interview.

Photos and videos of an incident can be traumatic for people involved in a crime or accident, especially if released to the public. These leaks can lead to officers being terminated or departments being sued by the affected families. Using CAPTOR Compliance, an insider threat logging and awareness system, Inkscreen offers a layer of privacy and awareness of potential digital evidence leaks. The extension module logs and reports any attempts to violate container and data leakage prevention (DLP) policies in the organization’s enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform.

CAPTOR Compliance extends CAPTOR’s defenses by notifying IT administrators if a law enforcement personnel attempts to share evidence with an unauthorized app or cloud provider, take a screenshot of a protected photo, or perform any action that violates the established container and DLP policy. IT policies, metadata, and watermarking are used to identify, track, and manage captured content.

CAPTOR is a stand-alone solution that integrates with leading EMM platforms, including Ivanti/ MobileIron, BlackBerry Dynamics, Microsoft InTune, and VMware/ AirWatch, simplifying application deployment and management. The product is deployed worldwide in various enterprise and government environments.

Our product has been called a camera app on steroids wearing a bulletproof vest, as it lets law enforcement personnel capture photos, videos, and audios that hold in a court of law

With CAPTOR, users can rest assured that their content collection and storage practices are in alignment with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Inkscreen made a significant difference for a federal agency following a cumbersome evidence capture and storage method. The enforcement personnel took pictures and recorded audio on different apps and uploaded those files to a computer system, making it a prolonged and error-prone process. After deploying Inkscreen’s CAPTOR, they streamlined their workflow, so everything took place in one app on a mobile device. The content was automatically backed up in the system, saving users significant time while facilitating unparalleled security. The agency now has over 5000 user licenses of Inkscreen’s CAPTOR solution.

Aiming to further evolve its application with AI and machine learning, Inkscreen is embarking on a journey of innovation, demonstrating excellence, innovation, and leadership in information security.