Surveillance camcorders are now almost ubiquitous in modern cities. As a result, the amount of recorded data is enormous, so it is extremely difficult and time-consuming to search the digital video content manually. In conventional forensic science, traces used to be fingerprints, fibers, documents and the like, but with the proliferation of multimedia data on the web, surveillance cameras in cities, and mobile phones in everyday life, we see an enormous growth in multimedia data that needs to be analyzed by forensic investigators. In this article, we shall discuss several video forensic-related issues, including blurred license plate image recognition, and quick criminal evidence retrieval from video data.