# NICE Evidencentral Receives ASTORS' Best Investigation Solution Award (Feb 28, 2024) > *Official NICE Ltd. corporate press release (Hoboken, N.J., Feb. 28, 2024). It is a primary source documenting the specific AI/automation capabilities NICE markets in NICE Investigate and NICE Justice under the Evidencentral platform — cloud-based transcription, optical character recognition (OCR) to make handwritten notes and PDFs keyword-searchable, AI evidence recommendation, and automated video redaction. Relevant to the Arkansas surveillance investigation as authoritative vendor confirmation of what the digital-evidence-management product does with audio/video evidence collected by law enforcement.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** NICE Ltd. (Nasdaq: NICE), corporate press releases - **URL:** https://www.nice.com/press-releases/nices-evidencentral-digital-evidence-management-platform-receives-astors-best-investigation - **Archived:** 2026-06-07 via firecrawl_scrape (markdown) - **Tier:** 2 (primary/official — corporate press release) ## Extract — verbatim (lightly cleaned) "Hoboken, N.J., February 28, 2024 – NICE (Nasdaq: NiCE) today announced that solutions from the NiCE Evidencentral platform have been named to the ASTORS Awards-winner's list... NiCE Investigate and NiCE Justice, solutions within NiCE's Evidencentral platform, were named gold award recipients in the Best Investigation Solution category. The solutions were recognized by AST for their use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in transforming how growing digital evidence is managed." Chris Wooten, Executive Vice President, NiCE: "Digital evidence is growing exponentially and it's slowing down the justice process. NiCE's AI-powered Digital Evidence Management solutions automate tedious investigation and trial preparation tasks, so investigators and prosecutors can find the truth in digital evidence faster and reduce case backlogs and delays." "Video evidence is especially challenging to work with as it may need to be transcoded to make it playable. Prosecutors and police investigators also frequently need to redact video, transcribe it, or create clips. Each of these activities requires them to work in different systems, or initiate requests which can take days or weeks to complete, contributing to a delayed justice process." "NICE's AI-powered Digital Evidence Management suite removes these delays and worries. For example, using cloud-based transcription, prosecutors and investigators can quickly scan the content of audio and video recordings to expedite evidence review and charging decisions. With Object Character Recognition, previously unsearchable evidence such as hand-written notes, PDFs and text content stored within images, can be scanned and made keyword-searchable. The NiCE solutions also use AI to search across connected evidence sources and recommend evidence, and automatically redact material from video evidence." ### NiCE Public Safety & Justice (boilerplate, verbatim) "With over 3,000 customers and 30 years of experience, NiCE helps all types of public safety and criminal justice agencies, from emergency communications and law enforcement to prosecutors and courts, digitally transform how they manage digital evidence and data from beginning to end, to get to the truth faster. NiCE's Evidencentral platform features an ecosystem of integrated technologies that bring data together to give a single view of the truth... With comprehensive digital transformation solutions that can be deployed across entire counties and states, NiCE also helps everyone work better together, so justice flows more smoothly, from incident to court."