A leading criminal organization in the gray market, which is suspected of setting up an interest loan bank and used a system of threats and violence against borrowers who had difficulty making repayments, was recently caught.
This, after an investigation that lasted more than a year - a very long period of time.
This period could have been shortened significantly if the police had advanced tools to streamline the stages of information gathering and investigation.
According to the data of the state comptroller's report, the crime trend in Israel rises consistently every year: in 2017-2019 there was an increase of more than 10% in the number of victims of crimes against a person and body, and the number of murder victims reached a peak of 95 in 2019 and 106 Murdered in 2020.
In an era where criminal organizations also operate in the digital arenas, the police cannot be left behind.
Artificial intelligence and information analysis connect the visible and hidden sources of information, present them to users in a friendly and understandable way and analyze them.
The processed information helps to promote investigations and strengthen the capabilities of the security forces.
For example, TSG sold the Philippine police a secure artificial intelligence-based system in real time, which allows the police to connect all of its intelligence information sources, and to create a picture of all forensic and police information in order to promote investigations, quickly and efficiently solve crimes and strengthen the capabilities of the security forces.
Such an analysis makes it possible to find all the "paths" between the pieces of information, between two individual people, in a group or in a connection between groups.
The system actually becomes a stationary and mobile laboratory for collecting evidence in a significant amount compared to the existing one, through smart computerization of the process.
All of these allow the police to deal with crimes at any level and area, from petty street crimes to international crime.
Wiretapping, which leads to the collection of evidence and the submission of a case to the court, is not enough to uncover a criminal organization.
Criminal organizations are much more sophisticated than police evidence collection.
They can - and do in most cases - employ an impersonator for the head of the organization ("monkey", in criminal parlance) who will take all the blame.
That is, classic police work will not lead to the head of the criminal organization but only to an impostor, while a sequence of linked intelligence information could have prevented these cases.
The police cannot conduct themselves in the decentralization that characterizes them today.
It must formulate a concept that will include the regulation of intelligence functions, and cooperation with security bodies and resources. However, in order to support technological progress, it is necessary to promote amendments required in the legislation for the investigation of crimes and the collection of evidence in the technological arena.
The legislator will be required to consider the necessary balance between adapting the needs of the law enforcement system to the treatment of crime, which is becoming more sophisticated, and between the rights granted to the individual by law, such as the recently passed "Confidentiality of Intelligence Material Law", which allows the information to be separated without harming the criminal's ability to defend himself and creates defining grounds all material as intelligence material.
A police force that seeks to become a thwarting organization must be at least one step ahead of the target or goal.
Technology is the way to achieve this advantage.
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