Forensic Phone Repair — for police and law enforcement.
Damaged exhibit phones repaired to a working, examinable state — documented handling and processes designed for evidential work.
Data Clinic is the UK’s trusted specialist in forensic mobile phone repair for police forces, law enforcement agencies, and government bodies. With over 20 years of experience since 2002, we successfully repair failing, damaged, water-damaged, or unresponsive mobile phones including iphones and Android phones, and tablets; using advanced hardware-level techniques, chip-off methods, and board-level repairs that preserve evidential integrity. Working phones are then returned to digital investigators to extract the data.
Why Choose Data Clinic?
Repairs are carried out in accordance with UK forensic evidence handling, continuity and integrity requirements including:
- The preservation of digital evidence
- Full chain of custody continuity
- Contemporaneous notes and photographs made of all work undertaken
- DBS cleared staff
- Secure lab facilities
- Streamlined Forensic Reports produced as standard
- Service level options to accommodate time critical investigations
- Single point of contact for officers
- Safe and secure exhibit handling procedures
- 24/7 availability for urgent cases
- Tailored processes for complex cases
- All makes and models supported
- We can also assist with faulty and unresponsive hard drives, laptops and tablets
- Proven success rate
- Experienced and skilled technicians
What We Do
- Replacing all peripheral components, including screens, batteries, buttons, sensors etc,
- Finding and rectifying board level faults such as faulty chips and short circuits using schematics, thermal imaging and micro soldering,
- Cleaning up corrosion and other contamination with ultrasonic baths and other decontamination processes
- For logic boards where damage is extensive or problematic to diagnose, we can conduct ‘chip offs’, taking the exhibits essential chips and transplanting them into a working logic board, without compromising evidential data
- Testing using Faraday cages to prevent connectivity
Take a look at our Advanced Recovery services – where we literally make recovering the unrecoverable possible.
Streamlined Forensic Report (SFR)
Forensic repair work on police devices is thoroughly documented in the SFR produced as standard — this includes contemporaneous notes and photographs of all work undertaken, full chain of custody continuity, and details of the repair techniques applied (such as component replacement, board-level fault rectification, contamination cleaning, or chip-off procedures), ensuring the preservation of evidential data and compliance with UK forensic evidence handling standards.
Below you will find redacted example pages extracted from a real case. You can click to enlarge the images, and download the full redacted report.
