Investigation
The shared case record connecting every unit, agency, and piece of evidence on a case.
A case rarely stays in one unit. Patrol opens it, detectives take it, a task force or a second agency joins, and a prosecutor's investigator needs the file. Each handoff means rebuilding the case from notes and spreadsheets, with pieces scattered across email and paper folders.
The Enforcement Gap
What The investigating officer defines
Which leads to chase, which evidence matters, who gets assigned what, and when the case is ready to move forward.
Where enforcement breaks down
None of that lives anywhere but the officer's notebook, a shared drive, and a string of email threads with whatever agency joined the case. When the case changes hands — a new detective, a task force, a prosecutor's office — the record has to be rebuilt from memory, and whatever wasn't written down is gone.
How investigators use it
A burglary case gets pulled into a regional task force after a pattern of linked incidents emerges. Local, county, and state investigators need to see the same evidence and timeline without waiting on emailed spreadsheets or a system nobody else can log into.
Months after an arrest, defense counsel challenges how evidence was handled between the responding officer and the detective who took the case. The full chain — who touched what, and when — needs to be pulled and shown, not reconstructed from memory.
A commander reviewing weekly caseload needs to see which cases are stalled, which tasks are overdue, and which units are carrying the heaviest load, without asking every detective for a status update.
How It Works
Open
Start a case from any trigger — a report, a referral, an escalation from another unit.
Assign
Route tasks and deadlines to investigators, with escalation if something falls behind.
Build
Evidence, warrants, witness statements, and interview findings attach to one record as the case grows.
Close
The case closes with an automated summary and the full audit trail attached, ready to hand to a prosecutor or a second agency.
Part of the enforcement platform
Investigation doesn't work in isolation. Here's how it connects.
Collection
Evidence acquired in the field lands directly in the case record, already hashed and logged.
Interview Room
Transcripts, findings, and contradiction flags attach to the case automatically.
Why OrcheSight
A case management tool tracks tasks. A shared drive holds files. Neither gives an investigator, a task force partner, and a prosecutor's office the same case record at the same time. Investigation does — role-based access, one record shared across units and agencies, and a log of every action so the handling of the case can be shown and defended, not reconstructed after the fact.