Report Summary
This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the Cyber Kiosk Update. This was presented for discussion at the meeting on 12 September 2023.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 12 September 2023
Date : 12 September 2023
Location : online
Cyber Kiosk Processes
A very small number of Kiosk examinations are of victim and witness devices. This is supported by statistical analysis, documented in Appendix C, which shows that in July 2023, of 401 devices seized only 16 belonged to victims and witnesses. Of those 16, nine were seized under common law and seven with consent of the owner. There were none seized under warrant or statutory power.
The reason for a victim or witness device being in the minority is that Cyber Kiosk are used exclusively to establish whether a device contains evidentially relevant material. Therefore in circumstances where the enquiry officer has been shown content and is thereby satisfied that relevant material is contained on the device, Kiosk examination would not be appropriate and the device would instead go to the Digital Forensic hub for examination and extraction of evidential material. In this way we can support victims more effectively rather than placing the device in the queue for lab examination, the examination is generally done by arrangement; the Victim or Witness attending at a Digital Forensic Hub at their earliest convenience.
