One of my favorite Steven Spielberg movies is the 2002 dystopian thriller Minority Report, in which “precogs” working for the “Precrime” unit predict murders before they happen, allowing arrests for crimes not yet committed. Recently, Pennsylvania attorneys at the Philadelphia Bench-Bar Conference raised an alarm that AI surveillance could soon create such a world –…
Marcel Fürstenau: German Police Expands Use of Palantir Surveillance Software
The surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed. It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer’s curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media…
NPCC Police Artificial Intelligence Strategy
The NPCC’s delivery of the AI strategy will ensure UK policing is ambitious in the deployment of AI that reflects our ethics and values. By harnessing the benefits of AI and deploying AI that reflects the best evidence, UK Policing will become more efficient and productive, meaning that we are better at meeting the needs…
Michael Jenkins, Chris Shields: Taking a Principled Approach to AI in Policing
The rapid integration of technology into law enforcement operations, combined with recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), suggests that AI will soon become integral to a wide range of policing technologies. AI is, in fact, already being explored in a range of policing efforts such as crime analysis, body camera video review, and DNA evaluation.1…
Greg Friese: How to Use AI to Create Police Officer Training
Some of the key reasons police trainers might be reluctant to use ChatGPT, Gemini or other AI LLMs include:
Police Break Up Ring Trafficking Kenyans to Fight for Russia in Ukraine
More than 20 people have been rescued in Kenya from a suspected human trafficking ring that lured them with job offers in Russia but intended to send them to fight in Ukraine, police said. It follows an intelligence-led raid on a residential apartment on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, where officers seized recruitment materials,…
Ukraine: In Ternopil, Police Arressted a Group of Military Personnel Involved in Violent and Property Crimes.
In Ternopil, police detained a group of military personnel involved in violent and property crimes.The military personnel illegally deprived people of their liberty, used physical violence against them, tortured them, demanded money and took their property in the Ternopil region. The perpetrators took the victims outside the city, beat them and demanded money or valuable…