UK Police Start Testing AI Tool Capable of Collapsing Time During Detective Work

A recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) tool may help law enforcement carry out decades of detective work in hours. The tool, called the Soze tool, was developed in Australia. It has been designed to review financial transactions, video footage, emails, social media and other documents all at the same time.

One assessment demonstrated that this tool was able to analyze evidential material in 27 complex cases in 30 hours. In comparison, this same work could take a human more than eight decades to complete.

Somerset and Avon police in the United Kingdom (UK) have been testing the technology, with hopes it can help identify possible leads that may not have been discovered during a manual review of evidence. Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, revealed that this tech could be useful in reviewing cold cases, helping close some of the UK’s most notorious unsolved cases. This comes after it was reported that dwindling numbers of police officers in the country’s largest force were working on unsolved murder cases.

However, Sir Mark Rowley, Met police commissioner, recently announced that his force was greatly stretched. Already, five officers of the Met cold-case team have been assigned to command units. Prior to this, they were assigned to the specialist cold-case department, where they were looking into the murder of Atek Hussain, which occurred three decades ago.

The 32-year old was stabbed in the heart in September 1994, on his way home from work. Despite the pain he must have been in, Hussain managed to get to his home and tell his family that his attackers were Asian. In a statement, the Met noted that while the case wasn’t active at the moment, no unsolved murder cases were ever closed. This particular murder case was last reviewed in August by the Serious Crime Review Group.

Stephens noted that the Soze was one of 64 innovative programs that would soon be launched in the country, adding that their use would allow officers to focus their attention more on responding to emergencies and investigations while also saving costs for the department. Other programs include a system that will enable call handlers to center their attention on victims of domestic abuse and an AI solution that will help develop a national database on knives.

Stephens added that AI and other tech, such as robotic-automation procedures and facial recognition, weren’t a replacement for law enforcement, because an officer still plays a role in the final decision.

When the AI products and solutions that major tech companies such as Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) start seeing this kind of real-world utility in organizations such as police forces, it is a strong indicator that artificial intelligence is bound to grow explosively over the coming years and influence more industries than currently expected.

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