Introducing AI into public safety in a responsible way is essential to boost efficiency, safety and transparency in policing. From a simple task, such as automatically starting recording a person stopped in the backseat of a vehicle to ensure their safety and that of others involved, to becoming an extra pair of eyes for police officers, monitoring the street around the vehicle.

In addition to being a great help, the AI ​​system can record everything that happens to be used in future investigations through cameras in the vehicle and on the vest of officers in the field. In this way, the command center has eyes and ears wherever its officers are operating, with multiple perspectives and the use of the cloud to organize, process and catalog images and videos with the security of having non-modifiable records.

In everyday life, a police officer who is doing his rounds, monitoring the streets, can receive an alert of a vehicle wanted for having been stolen or for having participated in a crime. The officer no longer needs to identify and verify the license plate of the car because the AI ​​system in the vehicle detects it instantly and automatically and generates an alert. Based on the identification, the command center is also informed, which can send help to the officer and synchronize his body camera. In other cases, it is possible to locate a missing person or even a suspect of a crime.

All these advances are no longer reserved only for science fiction movies or fixed cameras integrated into the command and control center; technology has made it a reality and is available in police vehicles to assist security forces in their daily missions.

Beyond Monitoring

Cameras that record the back seat, the front of the vehicle, the police officer and body cameras. High-sensitivity microphones, access to databases, recognition of people and vehicle license plates. The result is an immense amount of data.

Monitoring is only one part of the system that uses AI. For it to be truly effective, full integration and intelligent processing of the data obtained is needed.

A complete solution, in addition to monitoring and generating alarms, must record this information securely and in compliance with the data protection laws that apply to each country. This is a major step in automation that transforms the daily challenge of police forces, to ensure that all actions that take place in vehicles are recorded securely, remain unaltered and that video evidence is automatically catalogued and saved in the incident log, which can only be accessed by authorized persons if legally required.

This is where the use of certified cloud services for evidence storage comes into play. The cloud, which is already widely used by companies and even in homes, for example in email services or mobile phone applications, is an ally of public safety, as it provides easy, integrated and automated access. In this way, security agencies no longer have to worry about IT and can focus their efforts on their main objective: protecting the population.

During an investigation or simply during a review of a police action to improve procedures, a video recording can be easily located and even cross-referenced with other types of information such as alerts issued, date and time, among others. All this through auditable files that can be used as evidence in a court or for accountability purposes.