Footwear impressions have come to play a significant role in helping police investigations to solve serious and volume crime. Forensic scientists can link crime scenes and suspects by comparing impressions found at the scene with a potential suspect’s shoe prints. But timing is critical. Footwear changes over time. Soles wear out. Criminals may dispose of their shoes. Without timely intelligence, a detainee held briefly in custody can be released before officers realise they are a suspect in other crimes.
Improve your detection rates and give your force access to cutting-edge forensic intelligence and the National Footwear Database with TreadMatch. Faster, cleaner, more secure, reliable and cheaper than sending physical shoe prints to a lab, TreadMatch helps you get your footwear intel fast, removing the delays and courier costs experienced when sending shoe print samples away to be analysed. TreadMatch helps you act on the intel quickly.
With a detainee held in custody for a recordable offence, you scan the footwear then TreadMatch gets busy, helping you to narrow down the type of footwear and matching against NFD crimes, finally creating an intelligence pack that is automatically sent to the most appropriate recipient – custody officer, OIC or forensic unit. Action becomes possible, even before the detainee is released.
TreadMatch orchestrates and combines:
- the footwear scanner (or photo-capture unit) used to obtain a detainee’s shoe prints
- arrest data from the custody RMS (for example Niche)
- footwear data and matching crimes returned from the National Footwear Database (NFD).
We offer unrivalled end-to-end expertise on integration to the National Footwear Database. You can read more about our pioneering work in Forensic Intelligence and our related UK National Solutions.
We’ve also performed research into TreadMatch being used outside of custody at the crime scene. Customer reference details available upon request. Contact us to discuss your requirements.