California Law Enforcement Agencies Accelerate Investigations with Advanced Analytics

Overview

A California County Sheriff’s Office serves a population of over 700,000 residents. As the county’s primary law enforcement agency, it is responsible for a wide range of public safety functions, including patrol operations, jail and court services, criminal investigations, and emergency response coordination. With 16 law enforcement agencies operating within the county, effective collaboration, data sharing, and operational efficiency are essential to ensuring public safety. The Sheriff’s Office made technology modernization a top priority to meet the demands for real-time intelligence, inter-agency collaboration, and resource optimization.

Business Need

Prior to adopting C3 Law Enforcement, the agencies operated within a fragmented technology landscape that made investigative workflows slow, manual, and resource-intensive. Officers and detectives investigated thousands of cases each year. Every investigation and crime statistic report required accessing and reconciling data from multiple systems — an effort that could take several hours and diverted resources away from field operations. Inconsistent reporting standards added further complexity to daily operations. The Sheriff’s Office sought a unified solution that could streamline access to investigative data and enable faster, intelligence-led decision-making across all agencies.

The Solution

The agencies partnered with C3 AI to deploy C3 Law Enforcement — a solution that aggregates and visualizes records for advanced analytics. Within 6-months, C3 AI and the Law Enforcement Agency team integrated critical data sources — including records management systems (RMS), computer aided dispatch (CAD), license plate reader (LPR) systems, and media evidence. This integration allowed the agency to connect and simultaneously search across the previously siloed systems, significantly reducing investigative friction. During the initial production deployment, 50 users, from crime analysts to members of Investigations Units and Task Forces, were trained on the application. To ensure the solution addressed real operational needs, each C3 AI team member participated in ride-along patrol-shifts and agency briefings — gaining firsthand insight into daily workflows, challenges, and opportunities for meaningful impact.

Results

C3 Law Enforcement streamlined investigations and reduced the time required to aggregate relevant data from multiple days to seconds. Today, C3 Law Enforcement is the production standard for law enforcement data fusion and analytics, powering smarter policing across multiple agencies. The California County Sheriff’s Office is now expanding C3 Law Enforcement to a countywide deployment, which involves aggregating historical and live data from 16 distinct law enforcement agencies into a standardized data image for efficient data sharing and cross-jurisdictional collaboration. For the first time, the California County Sheriff’s Office can securely access case information and incident records from neighboring jurisdictions within the county through a single unified application.

About the Office

• Served by over a dozen Law Enforcement agencies
• Over 1,000 sworn and civilian personnel across agencies
• Servicing over 700,000 residents

Project Highlights

• 6-months from project kickoff to production-ready application
• 400+ users onboarded to date
• 10 data sources aggregated to date
• 1.9M identities consolidated and correlated to date
• 6 county agencies integrated to date, scaling to 16 county-wide