The Hardcat law enforcement platform empowers enforcement organisations to dramatically boost operational efficiency and accountability. We deliver real-time, end-to-end transparency across the entire lifecycle of armoury and operational equipment, inventory, seized assets, exhibits and evidence. Ensuring every item is tracked, managed, and protected with absolute precision.
Our advanced automation and intelligent alerting systems help organisations proactively manage maintenance, compliance, and personnel access. Reducing risk and ensuring critical assets are always ready for deployment. With robust audit trails and seamless integration into existing workflows, Hardcat strengthens asset security and supports informed decision-making. Building public trust through uncompromising transparency and control.
Firearm management and evidence management solutions
Our advanced firearm management system empowers private security organisations and law enforcement agencies to elevate their armoury operations. Ensuring the highest standards of safety and service to the community. By providing complete transparency at every stage—from managing armoury assets and operational equipment to tracking exhibits, evidence, and seized property, we enable enforcement teams to maintain rigorous control and accountability.
With built-in tools for monitoring firearms qualifications and identifying potential impairments, our system helps organisations safeguard their personnel, uphold public trust, and meet the increasing demands of modern armoury management.
Hardcat’s law enforcement solutions use QR codes, barcodes and embedded RFID tags to automate the operational functions of an agency into one enterprise system. It begins by keeping track of equipment issued to officers: armoury tracking, vehicle assignments, stock room inventories, uniforms, and more.
Firearm management system
Keep equipment in the right hands, at the right time and maintain accountability for a wide range of firearms and operational equipment. Be certain at all times who has what and where, with a complete audit trail of all movements and a history of the transfer of custody.
Armoury check-out and check-in
Hardcat streamlines the issue and return of armoury equipment, enabling fast, accurate, and responsible management of firearms and other critical operational assets. By seamlessly verifying personnel firearms licensing and conducting real-time validations, our system ensures only authorised individuals have access to sensitive equipment.
Every transaction is meticulously tracked, maintaining an unbroken chain of custody for each asset, from initial acquisition through issuance, return, storage, and final disposition. This comprehensive approach not only guarantees accountability at all times but also actively manages and monitors personnel access, reinforcing the highest standards of security and operational integrity.
- Check-out and Check-in (issuance and return): The asset is checked out for use by authorised personnel and checked back (returned to the armoury or base) upon return.
- Deployment and Recovery: The asset is deployed for an operation and reconciled (accounted for) upon return back to its original location.
Schedule calibrations and servicing alerts
With Hardcat, you can easily schedule calibrations, receive timely maintenance alerts, and manage both preventative and reactive maintenance to keep your assets reliable and compliant. The system enables strategic maintenance planning to maximise safety and uptime, while proactive alerts for low inventory, missing equipment, overdue maintenance, and required checks ensure your team always has safe, compliant equipment and never misses a critical action.
Qualifications and impairment checks
Maintain vigilance in monitoring qualifications and impairment checks. Ensure rigorous oversight of qualifications and impairment checks with our advanced system. The armoury management solution performs real-time monitoring, providing instant alerts for any risks related to issuing firearms to officers who may be unqualified or impaired.
This proactive approach safeguards against potential threats by ensuring only eligible personnel are equipped. Easily integrate our solution with existing ERP, HR, and other products for a seamless asset, qualification, and impairment check experience. Hardcat utilises personnel certifications, accreditations, courses and impairments for controlling armoury restrictions.
Hardcat solutions provide a single source of truth and governance around the management of critical operational assets ensuring only personnel with the correct certification can have access to certain assets. Manage personnel qualifications, certifications, training and expiration dates.
Key armoury management benefits
Fast and accurate issue and return of firearms and other critical operational equipment with chain of custody ensuring accountability at all times.
Scheduled maintenance tasks ensuring reliability and safety of all assets, providing safe tools of trade whilst meeting compliance and safety obligations.
Alerts for inventory levels, unreturned or overdue equipment and maintenance tasks.
Customisable dashboards for complete visibility of all assets and advanced reporting features.
RFID/QR Code/Barcode tags reduce human error enabling rapid scanning of items directly into the Hardcat platform.
Easily integrate our software with existing ERP, HR, inventory, finance and other systems for a seamless experience.
Reduce tampering of evidence by tagging and tracking all collected items and reporting on chain of custody.
Mobility solutions offering offline capability when connectivity is poor or unavailable ensuring operational continuity is maintained.
Maintain vigilance in monitoring personnel qualifications and training when issuing operational equipment such as firearms to ensure only properly trained and qualified individuals handle weapons, thereby enhancing safety, legal compliance, and operational effectiveness.
Evidence management software
Evidence, Exhibits and Seized Property Management for Law Enforcement
Manage evidence and exhibits with unprecedented governance over the full lifecycle from capture through to disposal. With complete mobility and accessibility, your officers have immediate access to analysis and results and be efficient and accurate with instant logbook processing and reporting, wherever they are, with our mobile solutions.
Managing seized property and criminal assets
While both seized assets and criminal assets are related to illegal activities, there are important distinctions between the two. Seized assets refer to any property taken by law enforcement during an investigation. In contrast, criminal assets are specifically those obtained through criminal activity or used to commit a crime. Examples of criminal assets include money, real estate, vehicles, luxury items, jewellery, artwork, and even cryptocurrency.
The Hardcat software is designed to track both seized assets and confiscated criminal property throughout the entire property management process. From the moment an item is seized, Hardcat creates an uninterrupted audit trail. This clearly documents every movement and labelling property as “in transit” when appropriate. This ensures complete governance and accountability, whether the asset is awaiting collection, storage, or disposal.
With Hardcat’s mobility solutions, officers can record item details directly in the field using digital devices. This eliminates the errors often associated with paper-based systems and ensures that information is captured accurately and promptly. As a result, law enforcement agencies benefit from greater operational efficiency, improved accountability, and the ability to quickly locate and manage stored property.
Hardcat provides a robust system for managing both seized and criminal assets, supporting law enforcement with a transparent and efficient property control process.
Why Hardcat stands out
Hardcat’s software solutions maintain accountability for a wide range of firearms and operational equipment. Our law enforcement solutions ensure certainty over assets, tracking who has what, where, and all custodianship transfers. Improve efficiency and transparency with our evidence management software, ensuring consistency and giving investigators more time to investigate.
Unmatched Transparency: Gain real-time, end-to-end visibility across every stage of the armoury lifecycle, covering firearms, operational equipment, exhibits, evidence, and seized property.
Trusted by Professionals: Hardcat is the platform of choice for leading law enforcement agencies and private security organisations, ensuring critical assets are always accounted for.
Comprehensive Asset Control: From acquisition and deployment to incident management and evidence handling, Hardcat delivers total oversight and control.
Lifecycle Management: Track and manage every asset, piece of equipment, and item of evidence from initial entry through to final disposition, eliminating blind spots and reducing risk.
Streamlined Operations: Automate compliance, reporting, and auditing to minimise errors, enhance accountability, and free up resources for frontline duties.
Hardcat Law Enforcement platform key capabilities
- Comprehensive armoury management for firearms and operational equipment with full audit trails and chain of custody tracking.
- Fast, accurate issue and return of equipment, including checks on personnel firearms licensing, qualifications, and impairment status.
- Barcode and RFID integration for efficient asset tracking, reducing manual errors and improving inventory management.
- Scheduled calibrations and maintenance alerts to ensure asset reliability, safety, and compliance throughout the equipment lifecycle.
- Real-time monitoring and alerts for low inventory, unreturned or missing equipment, overdue maintenance, and required qualifications or impairment checks.
- Evidence and exhibit management with detailed audit trails, ensuring integrity, security, and admissibility of evidence in court.
- Mobile solutions for field data capture, equipment check-in/out, and offline capability to maintain operational continuity.
- Seamless integration with ERP, HR, inventory, and finance systems for unified asset and personnel management.
- Customisable dashboards and advanced reporting for complete visibility and governance over all assets.
- Governance and compliance tools to ensure only certified and qualified personnel access critical assets, supporting safety and regulatory requirements.
- Proactive risk management through continuous oversight of qualifications, impairment checks, and asset custody.
Enforcement organisations can protect their assets, evidence, and seized property with complete confidence. Ensuring full regulatory compliance and earning public trust through uncompromising transparency and control. With Hardcat, you can empower your teams for a safer, smarter, and more accountable future.
