WYNYARD ADVANCED CRIME ANALYTICS POWERFUL SOFTWARE TO PREVENT AND SOLVE CRIME

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1 WYNYARD ADVANCED CRIME ANALYTICS POWERFUL SOFTWARE TO PREVENT AND SOLVE CRIME HELPING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SOLVE CRIMES FASTER, WITH LOWER COSTS AND FEWER RESOURCES.

2 1 Wynyard Group Advanced Crime Analytics ADVANCED CRIME ANALYTICS Police and law enforcement have never operated in a more challenging environment. One of their greatest challenges is data not having too little, having too much! Investigators often have huge amounts of data, from mobile phones, laptop computers, centralized records management systems, vehicle records, arrest records, national and international crime databases, phone billing records and more. Turning these mountains of data into actionable intelligence such as deriving useful facts, leads, insights, and relationships before the next crime occurs is a mammoth challenge. There is a better way. Wynyard s Advanced Crime Analytics software platform allows investigators and analysts to very quickly analyze all available evidence, intelligence and other data in order to connect the dots and solve the crime and prevent future crimes. Wynyard s Advanced Crime Analytics cuts through the noise to deliver what matters identifying suspects, determining timelines, identifying locations, and establishing evidence that can lead to arrests and successful convictions. Benefits of Advanced Crime Analytics Shorten the time required to deliver actionable intelligence from complex data and evidence Quickly turn data into clear, easily understood visualizations to help investigators understand complex scenarios Combine all available information to build a single comprehensive view of a case Identify connections, patterns, and key intelligence that might otherwise be missed Identify the key who, what, where and when of any analysis question with a wide range of visual analysis tools Drive the effective and efficient sharing of intelligence for internal teams and across intelligence organizations Perform rapid analyses of diverse data types including both structured and unstructured (text) data with a flexible data modeling and visualization environment Make your investigative, intelligence or analysts team more productive and efficient so they can generate more successful outcomes and solve more cases in less time

3 Wynyard Group Solutions for Financial Services 2 If the advantages of crime analytic software are that clear and compelling, then why aren t more law enforcement agencies using these tools? There are several reasons. Current challenges in crime analytics Traditionally, crime analytics software has not been available to most law enforcement agencies. Only a small number of the most well-funded and well-staffed organizations were able to utilize it, for one or a combination of reasons: 1. Cost small and mid-sized agencies could not afford the expertise and technology of advanced crime analytics. 2. Usability Most of the analytical tools were usable only by power-users those with the necessary technical or analytic training. 3. Complex IT environments The legacy IT systems of most law enforcement agencies were not well-suited to managing the variety, volume and velocity of data involved. This situation has changed. Costs have fallen. More and more agencies are using crime analytics tools. In addition, there has been a convergence between governments, financial institutions and non-financial institutions in terms of how they use analytics. As a result of the financial crisis and the war on terror, all three sectors explored how they could apply data and analytical capabilities to detect and prevent malicious outside influences. That is exactly what law enforcement tries to do detect and prevent bad things from happening. Most law enforcement agencies have limited numbers of IT staff and/ or lack the expertise needed to use most analytic tools. So a key challenge is to make advanced analytics usable to those without a mathematics or a computer science degree. Wynyard s Advanced Crime Analytics has solved that problem through its intuitive design and interface, and the use of innovative features which make it easy to manage the analysis process. The technical complexity is hidden from the user and the science is already built in. How does Wynyard Advanced Crime Analytics compare to competitive solutions? Advanced Crime Analytics is an out-of-the-box crime analytics solution that provides next-generation features. It can be deployed very rapidly and has a low cost of ownership. Wynyard s solution is significantly less expensive to implement and use than any of its competitors technologies. It was designed from the beginning to have a strong focus on usability, enabling both advanced quantitative analysts, as well as business users and operational personnel, to can use the tool themselves instead of having to rely on technical specialists. While most competitive solutions were originally developed for non-law enforcement industries Wynyard s crime analytics solution was created specifically to meet the needs of law enforcement professionals. Wynyard has deep domain knowledge and expertise, based on its years of work with law enforcement agencies around the world, enabled by the Wynyard Crime Science Research Institute program, and benefitting from its 100% focus on crime, risk and threat analytics. Proven worldwide Wynyard has taken its respected case management software and built an industry-leading visual analytics and anomaly detection module on top of it. The combined solution, while relatively new, is not only able to beat out top competitors with standalone visual analytics products in head-to-head product comparisons, but it has already proven invaluable to law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and financial institutions globally. ANALYZE DATA Identify: Linked incidents, entities, crime networks and locations PRODUCE EVIDENCE Prepare: Case graphics/timelines, link charts, evidence report INVESTIGATION APPLY ADVANCED CRIME ANALYTICS INTELLIGENCE-LED INVESTIGATIONS CASE REPORT PROSECUTE INCIDENT CASE

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5 Wynyard Group Solutions for Financial Services 4 CRIME ANALYTICS CASE STUDY The Challenge Investigators with a major metropolitan police agency faced a tough challenge in a recent homicide case. The victim was a known drug dealer. The police believed they knew the identity of the killer, but providing enough solid evidence to bring charges, and a conviction, was proving very difficult. The Response The investigations team had recently acquired Wynyard Advanced Crime Analytics. They quickly loaded a number of data types and began their analysis, using the tool. The data included: Phone billing records (metadata for calls, time, durations, frequency) Phone subscriber records (metadata that included subscriber location) Handset data from forensic recoveries (handset content, metadata, contacts, calls, etc.) Mobile cell site call traffic, including location information (call metadata and location) Vehicle registration data from license plate reader systems (vehicles, times, locations) With Advanced Crime Analytics, the analysts were able to identify individuals linked between the victim and suspect. Even though those links had not been identified before, Advanced Crime Analytics ability to automatically identify all the ways individuals are connected was able to bring them into view. Most critically, the software allowed analysts to identify a clear, accelerating pattern of phone calls between the key suspect and newly revealed persons of interest. In support of the subject interrogations, the software provided near real-time insight for police investigators during interviews. The Results Based on the evidence and information assembled by the investigators, the suspect was subsequently charged with the murder. The suspect is currently awaiting trial. In a summary report from the lead detective, he cited the speed, accuracy, and ability to process data in a large scale and with comprehensive coverage as key to resolution of the investigation. All aspects of the investigation were significantly improved as compared to the previously used, more conventional processes.

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7 Wynyard Group Solutions for Financial Services 6 KEY SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS Temporal (time) analysis The temporal (time related) nature of crime, disorder and other policerelated issues is a major component of crime analysis. With Wynyard s Advanced Crime Analytics, analysts can easily expand or narrow the time range for any data element from phone calls, to locations over time, to criminal incidents or other events. Link analysis Link analysis dramatically speeds an investigator s ability to identify entities associated with other entities an entity is any data element, such as a person, a weapon, a date, a phone number, a text message, an address, a previous arrest or conviction, etc. It is important to have multiple methods of link analysis available, so that potential connections between entities do not fall between the cracks of a single approach. Mobile device analytics With the dramatic growth of smart phones and similar digital mobile devices, police now have both a critical new data source for solving crimes and a huge challenge. The challenge is how to easily and quickly make sense of the data from seized phones or service provider records. The opportunity is to mine the data to identify suspects, generate evidence, and win convictions. Wynyard s soft data model combines all mobile device data through a smart integration engine, allowing investigators to rapidly piece together threads of information and to make information useable regardless of the original format and device. Geospatial analysis Wynyard s Advanced Crime Analytics allows investigators to easily develop patterns of life via geospatial analysis of GPS data such as cell-site and acquisition data. Analysts can quickly deduce where a person of interest spends their time and also determine if the person of interest or individuals they are associated with were near hotspots/ known criminal hangouts, or crime scenes themselves. Additionally, all together new areas of interest can be located by the ability of Wynyard Advanced Crime Analytics to fuse together disparate data sources, allowing analysts to find new hotspots and suspected criminal hangouts that they previously did not have the ability to identify. Data visualization One problem faced by analysts dealing with large and unwieldy data sets typically collected in the course of an investigation is that they can appear as large and unreadable arrays of figures, making it challenging for anyone to manage. Today s bank records, credit card transaction data and telephone subscriber and call records, to name just a few, present a huge challenge to make sense of for overworked investigators. Data visualization is a particularly powerful tool in this respect by allowing the presentation of information in an intuitive and visual way, it enhances the natural human ability to find patterns (and anomalies within patterns) in the data. Visualization methodologies include dashboards, heat maps, and graph analytics. An example heat map is shown below this allows an immediate, visual representation of thefts within a geographical area.

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9 Wynyard Group Solutions for Financial Services 8 FEATURES Law enforcement challenges How Wynyard Advanced Crime Analytics addresses the challenges Police and corporate financial crime investigators often have to look for anomalies the proverbial needle in the haystack manually or with timeintensive queries. That takes time and has risks including the chance of missing anomalies. Anomaly detection By applying advanced algorithms and dynamically processing large volumes of data, Wynyard Advanced Crime Analytics highlights suspicious activities, events and unusual relationships. That insight then guides further investigation and drives improved allocation of investigative resources. The costs, time and effort of in-depth technical and/or analytic training in order to use the application successfully. Powerful search and query capabilities without requiring extensive training and expertise The Wynyard platform uses a high performance text search engine to help users search and find relevant information, using a variety of query types, from phrase queries to fuzzy queries, from proximity queries to range queries and more. Relying on purely manual processes to conduct analyses, which take times and has risks Context-aware visualization Wynyard s Advanced Crime Analytics automatically displays entities (e.g., whatever objects the analyst is using, including phone numbers, addresses, text messages, vehicle information, suspects, dates, etc.) in the most intuitive way. The analyst can easily separate entities that are important to his investigation by visualizing and analyzing relationships and patterns that would not otherwise be evident. Time pressure on investigators, analysts and chiefs / the need for quick progress in critical investigations Especially when there is a large volume of data to analyze, from call records, social media, documents of all types, etc. Text mining Text mining allows analysts to quickly gain valuable insights from large volumes of unstructured data, such as documents and s. A user can automatically extract and classify types of entities and then connect and link them to other known entities to reveal meaningful, actionable insights and solve cases quickly. Criminals are consistently looking towards social media and other online avenues to plan and discuss their crimes, leaving analysts behind the curve and having no way to sift through the mountain of data available on social media and finding the needles in the haystack. Automatically ingest, filter and quickly identify relevant social media data using Wynyard s OSInt (Open Source Intelligence module.

10 Before joining the FBI, I had the honor of serving as a police officer and chief for more than 31 years, and I was involved in the successful High Point Initiative to reduce violent crime. I wish my investigators had had a tool like Wynyard Advanced Crime Analytics. This tool can save them so much time and help them close more cases. That translates into less crime. Louis Quijas, Advisory Council Member, Wynyard Group

11 Wynyard Group Solutions for Financial Services 10 ABOUT WYNYARD GROUP Know the threats, connect the dots & uncover the truth. Wynyard Group is a market leader in risk management and crime fighting software used in investigations and intelligence operations by government agencies and financial organizations. Wynyard solutions help solve and prevent crime, defend against advanced persistent cyber threats and counter terrorism. Wynyard s powerful software platform combines big data, advanced crime analytics and tradecraft to identify persons of interest, stop offenders and protect victims. Wynyard has more than 100,000 users of its solutions and offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Australia and New Zealand. For more information visit Toronto Arlington, VA London Dubai Sydney Auckland Wellington Christchurch Wynyard Group DRUGS FEMALE TRAFFICKING PIRACY Trans-national organised crime movements Office locations MIGRANT SMUGGLING Female trafficking Piracy FIREARMS Drugs COUNTERFEIT GOODS Migrant smuggling CYBER CRIME Firearms Counterfeit goods Cyber crime For more information and/or to schedule a demonstration: Contact us at Learn more at wynyardgroup.com

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