Simpson Associates RedactXpert for Policing

AI powered document auto-redaction 

Auto-Redaction tool powered by Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services, automates the redaction of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within your documents. Significantly improves accuracy and efficiency, saving your force valuable time and resources. 

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What is Simpson Associates RedactXpert for Policing?

A vast volume of police documents requires redaction and transmission to the Crown Prosecution Service daily. Recognising the need for a more efficient redaction process, Simpson Associates have developed, in conjunction with Microsoft, “RedactXpert”. This innovative AI powered SaaS tool streamlines the process of redacting documents using AI, saving valuable time and resources. 

While redaction tools are commonly used within UK law enforcement, RedactXpert sets a new standard. As the only automated redaction tool built on the Microsoft Azure platform and leveraging Microsoft’s Cognitive Services, RedactXpert excels in identifying and redacting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) with the power of AI. 

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Benefits of using Simpson Associates RedactXpert for Policing:

Enhanced Efficiency

Automates the redaction process, reducing manual effort and accelerating document turnaround times.

Improved Accuracy

Leverages AI to identify and redact sensitive information, minimising human error. 

Enhanced Security

Protects sensitive data, ensuring thorough and compliant redaction whilst taking advantage of your existing secure authentication.  

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Seamless Integration

Integrates seamlessly with existing Microsoft workflows, optimising the redaction process.

Scalability

Handles large volumes of documents and stores data within Microsoft local sovereignty datacentres, adapting to your increasing workload.

Built with Law Enforcement in mind

Developed in partnership with a number of UK Police forces in order to ensure key requirements are met. 

Why Choose Simpson Associates?

Experienced AI Team:

Over 3 decades of data experience and we currently work with over 60% of UK Police Forces. 

Microsoft Partner of the Year:

An entrusted Microsoft Partner with a Partner of the Year win and involved in numerous national policing programmes. 

Future Proof Redaction Solution:

Continual investment in RedactXpert to incorporate new redaction requirements.   

Trusted Security Partner:

Cyber Essentials Plus Certified, ISO 27001 accredited, JOSCAR registered, and Security cleared staff to SC & NPPV level 3. 

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Our RedactXpert solution is the first of its kind. Because of this, our tool has a number of deliverables that ensure your team and force are able to speed up your redaction process, while ensuring maximum security of your data.

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RedactXpert Features What you get

Security & Compliance

Workflow Efficiency

Permanent Text Removal

Beyond simply obscuring information, RedactXpert ensures that the original text is completely and irreversibly removed from your redacted documents.

This approach prevents any possibility of end readers recovering the sensitive information once it has been processed and exported, providing the highest level of data security and compliance for your files.  

Document Management Tools

Ensure every document is perfectly prepared for AI redaction. RedactXpert provides built-in tools for document rotation, deletion, and page management, giving you precise control and ensuring an optimised start to your redaction process.

Data Sovereignty

Maintain control over your data location and comply with regional data protection laws.

Choose options for local data centers to align with your organisation’s specific data sovereignty and regulatory requirements.

Intuitive Document Flow & Live Redaction

Experience a truly natural document review process that prioritises your efficiency. RedactXpert allows you to review entire documents at once, enabling you to scroll through content fluidly without the interruption of clicking through individual pages.

This intuitive design, coupled with the ability to redact information live as you read, makes the entire process incredibly efficient, empowering your team to work with greater speed and accuracy.

Secure Authentication

Benefit from secure user authentication, ensuring only authorised personnel can access and manage your AI- redaction processes.

RedactXpert supports Single Sign-On (SSO), allowing your team to authenticate using their existing organisational credentials. This streamlines user access, enhancing security and integrating with your current systems.

Enhanced Document Bundling

Organise and process numerous documents with ease, saving time and simplifying collaboration across your organisation.

Our solution empowers you to combine multiple documents into a single, searchable PDF, ideal for streamlined review and redaction, significantly improving workflow efficiency for large datasets, particularly beneficial for managing Subject Access requests (SAR’s) and Freedom of Information (FOI) processes, offering the flexibility to export and re-import documents as needed

Platform & Integration

Leverage a secure and enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure for your SaaS AI redaction software.

Effortless Email Redaction

Maintain control and oversight of the AI redaction process, ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulations.

Manage the entire redaction approval process with an integrated workflow, ensuring critical governance and accountability at every stage.

No Complex Installations Needed

Access RedactXpert without the need for complex installations, providing flexibility and ease of deployment as a true SaaS AI redaction software solution.

Access RedactXpert without the need for complex installations, providing flexibility and ease of deployment as a true SaaS AI redaction software solution.

Enhanced Search Capability

Quickly locate and redact sensitive data with AI, even within large volumes of text.

The built-in search functionality enables efficient identification and redaction of key terms across your documents, further accelerating the redaction process.

Multi-Language Support

RedactXpert can identify and redact PII in multiple languages, catering to organisations with diverse document processing needs.

Pick Up Where You Left Off

Improve flexibility and reduce frustration, allowing for efficient collaboration and iterative redaction of your sensitive information.

Resume your AI redaction work exactly where you left off, even if legal requirements necessitate changes or reviews

Trusted Security Partner

RedactXpert is powered by Simpson Associates, a Cyber Essentials Plus certified, ISO 27001 accredited, and JOSCAR registered organisation with security-cleared staff, ensuring the highest standards of data security.

Enhanced Search Capability

Quickly locate and redact sensitive data with AI, even within large volumes of text.

The built-in search functionality enables efficient identification and redaction of key terms across your documents, further accelerating the redaction process.

Review & Control

Intelligent Automation

Manual Review & Approval

Combine the efficiency of AI document redaction with the precision of human oversight for optimal results and redaction success.

Maintain ultimate control with the ability to manually review and approve all AI-powered redactions, ensuring accuracy and alignment with your specific organisation requirements.

AI-Powered Precision

Redact sensitive data with intelligent AI assistance, saving significant time and resources whilst simultaneously ensuring greater accuracy and compliance. By harnessing the intelligence of Microsoft Azure AI to automatically identify and redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) with accuracy, manual effort is reduced, and the risk of human error is minimised.

Configurable Retention Policies

You define the rules. Maintain complete control over your data’s lifecycle with RedactXpert’s configurable retention policies.

This ensures sensitive information is never stored longer than necessary, minimising risk and simplifying compliance whilst perfectly aligning with your unique organisational needs.

Enhanced Categorisation of Redaction Rules

Achieve granular control over the specific information that is redacted, tailoring the process to your unique needs.

You can define and refine your own AI redaction rules to identify and remove specific data patterns beyond standard PII. This includes extending PII classification types beyond traditional categories like names and addresses to include extended classification such as registration numbers, IP addresses, credit card details and more.

Flexible Redaction Tools

Handle diverse document types and complex redaction scenarios with ease.

The option is available to either redact text directly or use the manual highlighting and box-drawing tools to redact specific regions, areas, or even images. This  complements AI-powered redaction for non-textual data, increasing flexibility.

Handwritten Note Redaction

Handle a wide range of documents efficiently whilst maintaining data protection.

This AI tool can redact sensitive information even within scanned images of handwritten notes and documents, extending the power of automated redaction to previously challenging document types.

Revert Redactions

Minimise the risk of permanent errors and facilitate efficient collaboration and revisions.

Easily revert redactions for review and corrections, providing an added layer of flexibility and ensuring accuracy throughout the process.

File Size Control

Maintain complete control over your exported documents. RedactXpert allows you to manage the size of redacted files, ensuring that they remain manageable for transfer, storage, and sharing.

This capability is crucial not only for sectors like policing with specific disclosure requirements, but also for legal and compliance teams handling large Subject Access Requests (SARs), Freedom of Information (FOI) responses, or eDiscovery. By optimising file sizes, you reduce storage costs, improve network performance, and streamline workflows across your organisation.

FOI Assurance Review

Simplify your Freedom of Information (FOI) response process and enhance accuracy in fulfilling information requests.

Specifically designed to support FOI requests, RedactXpert offers features to aid in quality assurance and ensure compliance with disclosure requirements.

Contextual Labelling

Maintain clarity and context within your redacted documents, even after sensitive information is removed. Our intelligent labeling feature allows you to replace specific data, such as a person’s name, with a generic identifier (e.g., “Subject A”). This ensures that your documents remain coherent and fully usable for reviewers and collaborators, streamlining post-redaction analysis without compromising privacy.

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Why Simpson Associates can help Forces on their Redaction journey as a Microsoft Partner of the Year.

As a Microsoft Partner of the Year award winner, Simpson Associates brings over 30 years of data expertise. We leverage Microsoft technologies to deliver innovative solutions that drive efficiency and security.  

Our industry experts are the best in class when it comes at AI and Data Transformation. Combining that with the experience of working across the public and private sectors, we can enable your organisation to unlock the full potential of its data.

Try RedactXpert Free for 14 Days

Redacting sensitive information doesn’t have to be time-consuming, error-prone or tedious. With RedactXpert, you get powerful AI document redaction that’s fast, accurate and designed to simplify compliance.

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