A specialized warrants and extraditions unit experiencing a significant increase in absconder cases across multiple jurisdictions looked to IDI for a faster way to generate actionable leads and prioritize investigative efforts.
Public safety agency accelerates fugitive apprehension efforts with idiCORETM
Customer profile
A statewide public safety agency responsible for supervising parolees and probationers manages thousands of cases across both urban and rural jurisdictions. The agency’s specialized warrants and extraditions unit is tasked with locating and apprehending individuals who have absconded from supervision, including those charged with or convicted of committing serious violent crimes.
The unit receives fugitive cases from field offices throughout the state and works to locate individuals who have failed to comply with supervision requirements and are actively avoiding contact with authorities.
Challenge
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency experienced a significant increase in absconder cases. As supervision disruptions and operational challenges accumulated, the warrants’ caseload grew rapidly.
Many of the individuals entering the unit's workload had been out of contact for months or even years. Investigators were tasked with locating offenders associated with serious felony offenses while working through a growing volume of cases spread across multiple jurisdictions.
Locating these individuals often required investigators to piece together information from numerous sources to identify current addresses, property ownership records, vehicles, associates, and other indicators of a subject's whereabouts.
"When I first got here, there was a large ballooning warrant caseload," said the unit supervisor. "We had a ton of fugitives who had gone without supervision for months, if not years, and they were just out in the community."
The agency needed a faster and more efficient way to generate actionable leads and prioritize investigative efforts.
Solution
The agency licensed idiCORE™, thereby equipping its investigators with access to robust identity data, property records, address histories, relationship insights, and other investigative resources within a single platform.
Investigators used the solution throughout the fugitive investigation process to develop leads, identify potential locations, uncover connections to associates and family members, and locate assets that may help establish a subject’s current whereabouts.
Property intelligence quickly became one of the most valuable resources available to the unit. Investigators regularly leverage property ownership and related records to identify locations connected to fugitives and develop new investigative leads.
idiCORE also helps investigators surface information that may not be immediately apparent through traditional methods, allowing the unit to expand searches beyond local jurisdictions when necessary.
Results
In one case, investigators used idiCORE to discover a fugitive residing in Guam — more than 6,000 miles from the agency’s home jurisdiction. Using information identified through idiCORE, they were able to coordinate with federal partners and confirm the subject’s location, an outcome that would have been far harder to achieve through conventional investigative methods alone.
That case was indicative of the benefits idiCORE brought to the investigators’ work more generally. By consolidating investigative data in a single environment, the agency has improved efficiency across its entire caseload. Investigators can develop leads more quickly, reduce time spent searching across multiple systems, and focus resources on information that supports apprehension efforts.
The property data is money,” said the unit supervisor. “We love it.
Today, idiCORE serves as a critical investigative resource for the warrants and extraditions unit, helping investigators work through complex fugitive cases while improving public safety outcomes.
If somebody asks me about it, I tell them to get it in their budget,” said the supervisor. “It’s worth it.
— Supervisor
Agencies facing growing caseloads and limited resources face the same pressure this unit did—more fugitives, more jurisdictions, less time. idiCORE helps investigators move faster, find more, and focus on what matters. To learn more, send us an email or schedule a demo.