Measuring digital crime investigation capacity to guide international crime prevention strategies

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method to measure a country's digital investigation capacity, emphasizing the impact of international partners on capacity expansion and highlighting potential bottlenecks in digital crime investigations.

Contribution

It presents a novel measurement approach for digital investigation capacity that accounts for international collaboration factors.

Findings

International partners can limit investigation capacity expansion.

Capacity saturation impacts future digital crime investigation efforts.

Considering international collaboration is crucial for effective capacity planning.

Abstract

This work proposes a method for the measurement of a country's digital investigation capacity and saturation for the assessment of future capacity expansion. The focus is on external, or international, partners being a factor that could negatively affect the return on investment when attempting to expand investigation capacity nationally. This work concludes with the argument that when dealing with digital crime, target international partners should be a consideration in expansion, and could potentially be a bottleneck of investigation requests.