The amount of media files in any modern police investigation is staggering and has come to a point where manual review is mostly impossible. It is at this point that AI Analytics systems can help police officers manage the files with their alerts and summary functionalities.
Police case media files analytics
Most current police investigations will have a number of digital files related to them. Usually they are evidence, for example a suspect’s phone content or a security camera recording. The problem that arises with the growing number of media files in any police case is that their viewing or listening to takes an inordinate amount of time and, in some cases, is completely impractical or even impossible due to the sheer amount of material to analyze.
Luckily, AI Analytics platforms like Intelion can process all these media files automatically, 24/7, based on specified rules, to find specific information, like a face, number plate or voice, serving as operation centric platform.
Each operation has its own space within the platform, allowing law enforcement to organise and segment their investigations efficiently. Specific camera sources or archives can be assigned, users can be defined with differentiated access permissions and the appropriate AI analytics modules can be selected for each case. This structure ensures that all information from a police operation remains secure and centralised, yet can be shared with other police or judicial teams when necessary. In addition, users have customised access according to their role, ensuring that each officer or analyst sees only the relevant information.
This allows police officers to use their time in a more productive way, working on other cases, instead of scrolling through endless videos, looking for a particular detail. But just the automatic processing is not enough, as it requires the officers to check the found results (if any) from time to time. But even here AI can help.
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Configurable alerts
Another important help AI Evidence Review platforms can provide is an alert system. The way this works is that the officer assigned to investigate the case specifies what he/she is looking for. This can be a specific face, a certain car type or color, or a numberplate. In fact, any result of any analytics module can be assigned to an alert.
When the system finds the indicated elements while analyzing the media files, it automatically raises an alarm and alerts the specified people. In Intelion this is completely configurable. For example, if a certain face is found, Officer A may be notified, but if a searched numberplate turns up on any camera, Officer B and C may be notified. Or even a complete department in some cases, when necessary.
Not only that, but the system is flexible regarding the communication system to be used in every case. Besides the standard messaging application, Intelion can also integrate with secure Law Enforcement specific and proprietary messaging systems, so the Officers receive the notifications on their usual devices (phone, in-car system, etc.)
This allows the police force to dedicate time to other cases, while the AI Analytics platform searches for the requested information, knowing that they will be notified immediately if something noteworthy is found. The system can also attach a short clip to the message, so the officer can see some seconds before and after the identification of the target element.
Video Summary
Besides, the video summary function allows to see all of the identification keyframes summarized in one single screen. A click on any of the images plays the video just at that point in time, to allow the officers to see the context of the action. This functionality allows to watch only the interesting segments, out of hundreds of hours of video footage, thus saving time during the investigation process and reducing the workload of the officers. This helps closing more cases in less time, by concentrating on the relevant information only.
Reports
Finally, the reports functionality is central to sharing information between departments or between investigative groups. Reports can be configured individually to contain all the case information, detections, thumbnails of those detections, time information and the like. All of this can be exported into several formats, including PDF, for easy sharing, sending or archiving.
Conclusion
Using AI Analytics with AI Evidence Review for police investigations nowadays is almost a must, due to the amount of digital information, mostly audio and video, that has to be processed to find evidence. AI systems are able to work 24/7 on the digital data, but thanks to their alarm system they become really useful, as they can work and alert the corresponding officer when any searched target is found in the footage. This saves valuable time, and allows the police forces to work on high value tasks, instead of watching endless hours of videos. Besides, summaries and reports reduce the effort further, providing information at a glance and to be shared with other agencies or colleagues.
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