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Volume burglary identification within 2 hours

Industry
Public Safety

Service
Technology Services

Client background

A routine burglary occurred at an unoccupied house. A scenes of crime officer attended and documented the property. Inside the house, sealed moving boxes had been opened and items disturbed – indicating the offender had handled objects that did not belong to them.

This type of burglary is run-of-the-mill volume crime. In most jurisdictions, fingerprint evidence from cases like this sits in a queue for days or weeks, and in many cases is never examined at all, as resources are prioritised elsewhere.

How the Public Safety Platform was used

Fingerprint evidence was recovered from items inside the moving boxes and submitted through bdna forensics as part of normal crime scene processing.

Forensics is a forensic case management software with integrated laboratory information management (LIMS) capability. It manages forensic case intake, examination, review, and reporting within a single system – from submission through to court-ready reporting.

Once submitted, the burglary entered the same controlled forensic workflow used for major crime, with structured case intake, examination, review, and reporting captured end to end.

At that point, the officer continued with other work without any expectation of a rapid result. For volume crime, it would normally take days – or longer – before fingerprints were examined, if they were examined at all. No follow-up or escalation was required; the case simply progressed through the standard forensic workflow.

But within two hours, the identification result became visible in the system, having moved through examination and review within the same case record.

Outcomes and benefits

With the forensic result available, detectives executed a search warrant that afternoon, recovered stolen property, and arrested the offender – who actually lived only a few houses away.

What would typically take days or weeks was resolved within hours, demonstrating how consistent forensic case management can deliver meaningful results for everyday crime.

Key benefits:

  • Same-day investigative action for a routine burglary

  • Reduced backlog impact on high-volume crime

  • Better outcomes for offences affecting the wider community

  • Consistent forensic governance, regardless of case priority

  • Enabled earlier intervention, reducing the risk of repeat offending

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