Digital evidence can help establish when events occurred, where victims and suspects were and with whom they communicated. As the volume of cases requiring digital forensic analysis and the amount of information to be processed in each case have risen rapidly in recent years, law enforcement agencies have been struggling to meet demand.
This ESRC-funded project (September 2018–August 2022) examines the organisational resources, operational demands and professional values that circumscribe the application of digital forensics in police investigations in England and Wales.