NSW Police Introduce New Video Analysis Tools With Ethics At Their Core - Which-50

This week, the New South Wales Police announced the introduction of upgrades to their Insights policing platform. This new technology is designed to provide further services to frontline officers through faster access to critical information in the course of their roles in identifying persons and criminal activity across the state. Powered by Microsoft Azure cognitive technologies, the machine learning and deep learning capabilities were fully deployed in February 2021, with the goal of reducing police labour hours on manual data processing tasks, such as reviewing video feeds. Examples of how the AI systems will be used include one case were NSW Police collected 14,000 pieces of CCTV footage as part of a murder and assault investigation which would previously have taken detectives months to analyse. Microsoft claims the AI/ML infused Insights platform ingested this huge volume of information in five hours and prepared it for analysis by NSW Police Force investigators, a process which would otherwise have taken many weeks to months.