Simpson Associates RedactXpert® for Policing

The smart, secure way to remove sensitive data with speed, accuracy. A solution powered by Simpson Associates, leveraging Microsoft AI.

RedactXpert for policing

Your AI Co-Pilot for Precise Redaction

Every day, UK police forces handle vast volumes of sensitive documents – witness statements, suspect interviews, crime reports, emails, and scanned records – that must be carefully redacted before submission to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Manual redaction is slow, labour-intensive, and prone to errors, creating bottlenecks that can delay case progression and put pressure on disclosure teams.

To solve this, Simpson Associates developed RedactXpert® – an AI-powered SaaS platform built with input from police forces to meet their specific needs. Leveraging Microsoft Azure and Azure Cognitive Services, it automatically identifies and redacts PII across handwritten notes, scanned PDFs, emails, images, and unstructured reports. Teams can pause and resume work, refine AI suggestions, and apply contextual labels to keep documents coherent for investigators and prosecutors.

RedactXpert® sets a new standard for law enforcement redaction. By automating repetitive tasks, it reduces risk, improves consistency, and frees police teams to focus on critical investigative work – delivering faster case files to the CPS while protecting sensitive information.

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Benefits of using Simpson Associates RedactXpert® for Policing:

AI-Powered, Highly Accurate Redaction 

Automatically detect and remove sensitive information across documents, emails, images and even handwritten notes – reducing the manual workload of disclosure officers and lowering the risk of errors that could impact prosecutions.

Irreversible Redaction for Total Compliance 

Unlike simple masking, RedactXpert® permanently removes sensitive content from your redacted documents, helping forces comply with GDPR and CPS disclosure requirements while protecting victims, witnesses, and officers.

Custom Redaction Rules for Any Scenario 

Go beyond standard PII with bespoke redaction rules tailored to your specific policing needs that allow you to target formats such as vehicle registrations, case reference numbers, custody identifiers, barcodes, and operational codes. 

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Governance with Human Oversight 

Maintain ultimate control by combining AI speed with manual review, audit trails, and quality checks, ensuring all redactions meet internal policies and legal standards – critical for safeguarding sensitive operational and criminal justice information.

Efficient Workflow for High-Volume Redaction 

Use document bundling to combine multiple files into a single, searchable PDF with flexibility to export, re-import, and efficiently process large datasets – helping forces deliver files to the CPS faster while freeing investigators to focus on active cases.

Secure, Scalable and Built on Microsoft Azure 

Delivered as a SaaS platform, RedactXpert® provides enterprise-grade security and Azure-powered scalability, giving forces a secure, compliant solution that can handle growing redaction volumes across multiple teams and locations.

Why Choose Simpson Associates for AI-Powered Redaction 

Enterprise-Grade Security

As well as RedactXpert® being built on Azure – an audit-friendly architecture – Simpson Associates is ISO 27001 certifiedCyber Essentials Plus, JOSCAR registered and staffed with SC & NPPV cleared personnel. 

The Platform’s Development

RedactXpert® was originally developed with input from UK police forces to streamline redaction of documents for the Crown Prosecution Service and other law enforcement workflows.

Deep Policing Expertise

We have over 30 years of data experience and have worked with over 60% of UK police forces, providing AI, data modernisation, and secure transformation solutions.

Microsoft Partner of the Year

An entrusted Microsoft Solutions Partner with a Partner of the Year win for our work with the Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) programme and involved in numerous national policing programmes.  

Continual Innovation

We constantly invest in RedactXpert® – enhancing rules, adding functionality, and rolling out improvements that respond to real-world needs. 

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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

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.  

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.

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.

Platform & Integration

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

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.

Multi-Language Support

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

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.

Intelligent Automation

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.

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.

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.

Workflow Efficiency

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.

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.

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.

Effortless Email Redaction

Process and redact sensitive information within emails and their attachments with complete ease. Our AI redaction tool allows you to manage email redaction as part of your standard document workflow without the complex workarounds previously holding your redaction process back.

Inbuilt Workflow Management

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.

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.

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

Review & Control

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Simpson Associates is a trusted data partner for over 60% of UK police forces, successfully implementing both RedactXpert® and other modern data and AI consultancy solutions. Named Microsoft Partner of the Year for our groundbreaking project with TOEX (Tackling Organised Exploitation), we bring award-winning expertise to policing.  

By combining advanced AI capabilities with sector-specific knowledge, we help your organisation deliver safer, faster and fully compliant redaction while unlocking the full value of its data estate.

Try RedactXpert® Free for 14 Days

Take control of your redaction workflows and free your teams to focus on what matters most: solving cases and protecting communities.

Try RedactXpert® for free for 14 days – no installation needed – or contact our expert team with any redaction queries.

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