Public safety and the cloud

As public safety agencies navigate the ever-increasing complexity in which they operate, a world class public safety hybrid cloud is needed. From racial injustice and bias to officer health and safety, public safety agencies are dealing with socially challenging and operationally disruptive forces, especially regarding technology and a tsunami of data. Budget reductions continue to hamper law enforcement's ability to analyze and share the right data with the right people at the right time.

To remain relevant and address top issues, transformational technologies around 4 critical areas are needed:

  • Strengthening police-community relations
  • Protecting officers’ safety and health
  • Responding to technological change
  • Information sharing and use


The IBM Digital Policing Platform leverages the power of hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and intelligent workflows to achieve mission objectives in serving and protecting citizens. 

Public safety cloud case study

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The Edmonton Police Service (EPS)

The police department is building Canada’s first enterprise digital policing platform, transforming digital evidence management and analysis to improve citizen safety and quality of life.

See how they did it

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Manchester PD gets proactive with predictive policing

Reducing crime 28% is never easy, but the MPD achieved this by powering their digital investigations with IBM — even when facing an opioid epidemic and reduced personnel.

Read their story (299 KB) document--pdf

Public safety cloud and justice solutions

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Crime investigation, prediction and prevention

Accelerate investigations with the IBM Law Enforcement Investigative Platform (LEIP) and reduce time to target through data fusion and analysis.

See the crime fighting cloud solution (430 KB) document--pdf

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IBM analytics to combat racial bias

Promote an environment of trust and transparency between police and citizens by better monitoring and reacting to racial bias with a hybrid cloud based and AI analytics approach.

Build trust with AI ethics

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Monitor officer safety, health and wellness 

IBM solutions and services offer a 360 view to help monitor officer physical, mental and emotional health and wellness.

Explore enterprise safety

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Respond to technological change 

Law enforcement is challenged with exponentially growing volumes of digital evidence, including video and audio captured from body worn and dashboard cameras and citizens.

Discover how to manage digital evidence (1.7 MB) document--pdf

Resources

Confidential computing

Protect data during processing with a hardware-based, secure enclave within a CPU for end-to-end data security.

Learn how it works

Discover the new era of cloud security

Cloud computing in law enforcement

Positively affect the productivity and efficiency of justice and public safety agencies with the cloud.

Learn about cloud and law enforcement

Gain better visibility into data

Uncover critical investigative connections and insights faster with IBM i2 Analyst Notebook.

Explore IBM i2 Analyst Notebook

Learn more about the IBM public safety cloud built on hybrid cloud and AI to discover the insights hidden within your data. Contact an IBM Government expert.

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