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Stuart Hutchinson, VP of Sales at ADF Solutions, joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to talk about on-scene digital forensics and empowering first responders during the golden hour. Stuart shares his journey from 23 years with the Met Police — including a chance encounter in a New Scotland Yard lift that led him into Mac forensics and the vendor space at BlackBag, Cellebrite, Oxygen, and now ADF. With 99.9% of investigations involving a digital element, he argues that mishandling digital evidence at the scene is as damaging as trampling through traditional forensic evidence.
The conversation covers ADF's preview mode and search profile methodology, which gives first responders advanced logical acquisitions in minutes rather than 45+ minutes for a full extraction. Stuart explains how one UK force cut lab submissions by over 40% using an intelligence-led CAID hash triage strategy, and the team discuss locked-down search profiles built at DFU level, managing collateral intrusion, building trust with victims and witnesses, and ADF's screen capture and OCR for Chromebooks, PlayStations, Xboxes, and anything with HDMI out.
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00:00 Introducing Stuart Hutchinson and ADF Solutions
02:13 From Met to Mac Forensics
07:26 Why On Scene Triage
08:01 Golden Hour Decisions
13:24 What to Triage First
16:26 ADF Field Kit Overview
18:04 Preview Mode Workflow
22:34 Search Profiles and Staging
26:38 Investigator Over Automation
28:11 Impact and CSAM Hashing
29:34 CAID Hash Triage Strategy
32:45 Efficiency Versus Thoroughness
35:07 Locked Search Profiles
37:20 Training For Limitations
42:46 Device Security Pressures
44:45 From Triage To Full Forensics
47:44 Victim Witness Phone Trust
52:27 Screen Capture And OCR
57:49 Wrap Up And Resources
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ADF Solutions – https://adfsolutions.com/
ADF Weekly Training Sessions – https://adfsolutions.com/weekly-training-sessions/
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