Phase 1

• ✅ Early design sketches
• ✅ Initial framework
• ✅ Opening conversation (learn user details)
• Prepare a full set of early design documents
• Design supporting victim database service
• Stub out main flows
  • Record new burglary
  • Review and edit previous burglaries
  • Fulfilments

Phase 2

• Implement supporting database
• Implement main flows
  • Record new burglary
    • Enumerate losses (identify items, costs, serial #s, etc.)
    • Identify forensic opportunities
    • Examine insurance options
  • Review and edit previous burglaries
    • Overview all personal incidents
    • View details for a personal incident
    • Modify or correct a detail in a personal incident
  • Fulfilments
    • Generate personal victim statement
    • Examine home for prevention advice

Phase 3

• Language Understanding for user interruptions
• Conversational resilience testing
• User acceptance testing

Phase 4

• Trials with a police force
• Sponsorship for live implementation

• Project lead: Lewis Westbury
• Github repository: PoliceRewired/burglary-victims-support-bot

Join us and help build a conversational tool for people when they need it the most.

We'd also be grateful for your time if you've been the victim of a burglary yourself. Your experience is invaluable in helping us strike the right tone, and eliciting the most helpful things we can do for others in your predicament. Our bot must be courteous, informative and meet as many of the needs you had.

Designers

• We'd love to work with someone passionate about this topic, and willing to help us create a friendly design aesthetic, and presence, for the bot.

Web creators

• The bot needs a real, friendly presence on the web, too. Help us put together an accessible and helpful set of web pages that include a web control for the bot itself.

.NET coders

We're using the MS Bot Framework (v4) for a few reasons:

• It's cross-compatible with many channels of communication.
• We can integrate with external services.
• We can easily build and test locally.

When the bot is ready, we'll be hosting on an Azure-like service (TBC). Until then, we're using the MS Bot Framework Emulator.

Security awareness is a key part of every design and implementation decision. Bring your infosec tin-foil hat to every project involving personal data! We'll be challenging each other, our designs, and our implementations throughout the process; and we'll be seeking advice from security professionals as we work.