Miscreants, beware! Mr Artificial Intelligence is the new cop in town

The programme can cross match faces against a crime database even from low-light images and give inputs to cops on the ground

It may look like a scene straight out of a science fiction tale, but soon police would be able to use artificial intelligence tools to identify miscreants in a crowd. In a first, the Maharashtra government is tying up with Bangalore based artificial intelligence firm Organisation for Digital Governance (OFDG) to identify rioters using AI for systematic analysis and using the database stored by cops across the state.

A pilot project has already been started to digitise data from police stations across the state which would be used to identify habitual offenders. ”It’s imperative that law enforcement agencies get access