eTWIST® relieves resource-intensive tasks, improves accuracy and optimizes time.  Using eTWIST® technology for processing and collecting criminal evidence can enhance case clearance rates and potentially reduce crime rates.  Many police officers are confined to a desk repeatedly entering data into back-end reporting systems or on paper, instead of out patrolling the streets.  The average police agency receives about 100 cases per week; about 25 of those cases require evidence tracking, taking officers on average 2 hours to input the evidence information into back-end systems or to handwrite reports.  Resulting in 50 man-hours each week, or one police officer per year, spent in front of a computer screen entering in repetitive data, often multiple times