How a Utah Detective Unit Turned Weeks of Evidence Review Into 20 Minutes

Challenge

A Utah detective unit faced warrant returns, phone extractions, message threads, and documents piling up faster than investigators could read them. In a stolen-handgun investigation, one detective had 2,000 pages of Instagram warrant returns to review. He estimated that reading them by hand would take weeks.

The problem was finding the detail that moved the case forward, not simply keeping evidence organized.

With ShieldView

Detectives uploaded full evidence sets and asked questions across extractions, warrant returns, documents, and video interviews in plain English. Agent Rhodes surfaced messages giving the detective a clue about who had the stolen handgun, or a next lead to follow.

The unit also used ShieldView to draft search warrants in its paragraph style, condense probable cause statements, and turn bodycam and video interviews into reports. When an attorney flagged a cell-phone warrant as potentially over-broad, a detective added limiting parameters and a tighter 45-day timeline.

Across the unit’s casework, the platform supported interview preparation, victim summaries, timeline building, charging references to Utah Code, and report writing.

Result

The detective worked through the warrant returns in 20 minutes. In the first 30 days, the unit worked eight active investigations in ShieldView, including a stolen firearm, fraud cases, a fraud-and-forgery series, and a harassment case involving a firearm threat. More than 150 evidence items were analyzed on a single case.