NSW Police runs AI over evidence using Microsoft Azure

NSW Police has "infused" its insights platform with Microsoft Azure-based artificial intelligence and machine learning services to fast-track video and audio evidence analysis. Microsoft recently worked with Australia's largest policing agency to containerise cognitive processing for the core investigation platform in Azure and feed the results back. The work comes ahead of a future migration of insights to Azure, which is expected to take place "shortly". As revealed by iTnews in April, NSW Police is working to stand up a protected-level Azure data centre under what it calls the'Azura Cloud Project' to support its broader transformation program. NSW Police expects to retire, re-architect or replace more than 200 legacy systems with cloud-based systems as part of the program.