The Home Office has accepted key recommendations from Jonathan Fisher KC’s Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences, agreeing to introduce legislation allowing police officers to use artificial intelligence to review and summarise evidence. The overhaul of evidence management rules is designed to cut down on administrative paperwork and allow officers to spend more time tackling crime on the streets. Existing disclosure guidance dates to 1996, before iPhones, Google, Facebook, or WhatsApp existed and when case files were frequently limited to a single box. Today, some police investigations involve data equivalent to over 500,000 e-books, while an average fraud case encompasses more than four million documents.

Background: Digital Forensics and AI

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