"investigative value" is correct and is often used in written English.
You can use it to describe something has worth or relevance because it provides useful information. For example: "The police report had great investigative value, providing important details about the suspect."
"It has hard-to-measure deterrent value, and easily measurable investigative value".
Although results are not admissible in court, law enforcement agencies, particularly the F.B.I., place great stock in their investigative value.
Returning to the 2010 briefing document, it is unclear how MI5 specifically intended to improve its ability to analyze the increasing amounts of data it was intending to pull in — although it also writes of a need to "develop at pace… capabilities (i.e. processes, people and technology) which will enable it to improve investigative value from its collection investment".
"We have very grainy video that doesn't really hold any investigative value," he said.
"The goal was to exploit all available digital evidence in this case in the event it contained data of investigative value," Eimiller said.
Redlands Police Chief Mark Garcia said that although the FBI had released the scene to the property owner because it was of no investigative value, that individual should not have made entry without following the appropriate legal procedures.
The Washington press corps was dilatory in its investigative reporting – valuing access and cozy relationships with senior officials above the search for truth; ultimately, the media served as lapdogs rather than watchdogs.
He said Miami investigators, after consulting with scientists, had advised the Omaha office that the Ames strain was so widespread that it had no investigative or evidentiary value.
Mean changes from baseline in continuous end points were expressed as least squares mean (LSM), and analyzed using a mixed-effects longitudinal model, which included effects of treatment and visit (geographic region of the investigative site, baseline value of the dependent variable, and the treatment-by-visit interaction), while patients were treated as a random effect.
That might have subconsciously influenced how high he values investigative journalism, which he expressed by acquiring the Washington Post in 2013.
I spent my career as an investigative reporter, so I value the hardest-hitting work.
