WA police trial AI evidence analysis

The Western Australia Police Force (WAPF) has been piloting an Australian-developed cloud AI-based solution for managing the vast troves of data seized in cases involving digital evidence. Manually sorting through it all is a time-consuming task, and it can be easy to miss information and connections. WAPF has taken steps to address this issue by trialling a data and AI platform developed by Victoria's Modis. The trial, conducted in collaboration with Microsoft, has involved using Azure-based cognitive services to collect and efficiently analyse data, and to manage translations into English. The Data & AI solution is designed to use AI techniques to ingest and analyse large qualities of information collected during an investigation, helping investigators make sense of the evidence and find critical connections.