NSW Fair Trading | Intelligence, Compliance & Enforcement Department of Finance, Services & Innovation | Fair Trading

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Data Led Approach to Investigations

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

• Data & Investigations • Intelligence Supported Investigations • Enterprise Entity Data Model • Analysis Ready Data Set • Data Standards and Standardising Data • Link Analysis – support to Investigators • Development of Operational Programs • Data Sources • Data Sharing • Shared Regulatory Spaces • Projects with External Agencies • Future developments - Sentinel Field

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Data & Investigations

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”

Who What

When Where

How Why

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Intelligence Supported Investigations

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

Sentinel Software

Sentinel Team

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Enterprise Entity Data Model

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

Sentinel

• Data Ingestion • Data Transformation • Data Cleansing • Data Matching • Data Linking • Data Analytics

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Analysis Ready Data Set

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

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Data Standards and Standardising Data

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

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Data standards key to ensuring sufficient data quality to allow entity linking Data standards difficult to enforce within an organisation Data standards impossible to enforce between organisations Standardise data on ingestion

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Link Analysis – assessment and pre-investigation

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

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Link Analysis – representing complex matters

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

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Development of Operational Programs

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

Ongoing presence in regulatory sphere • Random • Sequential • Geographical • Factor Analysis

Theory

Analysis

Operation

Evaluation

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Data Sources

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

Systems of Record - Gold Standard Often other regulators

• ASIC – Company register • NSW Government Licence System – Licence

Holders • NSW Land and Property Information - Locations

Commercial Operations • Sensis • Motor Vehicle Auction Houses

Informal personal / Public sourced • Facebook

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Data Sharing

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

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Shared Regulatory Spaces

NSW Fair Trading Intelligence Branch.

Other regulators hold data on your entities of interest Serious offending occurs in an ecosystem of facilitators Sharing data may empower another regulator with different powers Removing any entity in the ecosystem will increase difficulty of offending for all Joint compliance / enforcement operations can improve effectiveness and efficiency

Projects with External Agencies

• Office of State Revenue

Assist with locating first home buyers renting out properties

• Sydney City Council

Identification of slumlords

• NSW Police

Locating individuals for serving of warrants

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Sentinel moving forward

Sentinel Field Officer interface makes life easier for the officer by giving the tools to interact with intelligence while maintaining supervisor control

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Sentinel Field (Live intelligence and control)

Sentinel Field Control Centre Enables control of field officers and the collection of data as part of day to day operations. It also enhances officer welfare.

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Current Infrastructure Environment…

Live statistic allow management to focus staff more effectively and react to situations as they appear.

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Discussion …

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