What is it about?
In order to address the issue of footwear capture from individuals arrested for recordable crime, technology has been developed, which is known as Tread Finder. This technology and development was made possible through Home Office Police Innovation Funding. Tread Finder is now a finished product and the technology has been deployed into a North London custody suite. Tread Finder incorporates the use of a 300 dpi scanner and newly developed software enabling capture, assisted coding and automated geographical crime scene searching. This paper sets out the proposal of a Randomised Control Trial to replicate and upscale a previous lab based experiment into a field environment to assess the cost, efficiency and crime solving benefits realised as a result of deploying Tread Finder technology compared with the previous paper based alternative.
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Why is it important?
Tread Finder has been developed, tested, refined and deployed in a live custody environment and this moment in time, presents a wonderful opportunity to apply scientific rigour to measure the effect of the technology, through a carefully formulated research question and a meticulously planned and executed RCT
Perspectives
Paper led by Julie Henderson (PhD student and DCI at Beds Police) which outlines research conducted on the effectiveness of Tread Finder. This forms the basis of Julie's PhD so expect lots more exciting papers.
Prof Rachel A Armitage
University of Huddersfield
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This page is a summary of: If the Shoe Fits: Proposing a Randomised Control Trial on the effect of a digitised in-custody footwear technology compared to a paper-based footwear method., Crime Security and Society, February 2018, University of Huddersfield Press,
DOI: 10.5920/css.2018.02.
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