When AI Comes to Police's Rescue

In the first week of September, the Uttar Pradesh STF was conferred with FICCI Smart Policing Award 2021, among more than 190 entries from 19 state police forces, four CAPFs and other central police forces. The STF branch of the UP police won it for their application of the JARVIS tool. Indigenously developed by a Gurugram-based AI research startup, StaqU, the JARVIS-SIAN tool was launched in 2021 by IPS Amitabh Yash. Founded in 2015, StaqU uses state-of-the-art image recognition, text-processing & summarisation, classification, and language-independent proprietary speaker identification. In April this year, the company raised Rs 11 crore in a pre-series A funding round from Mount Judi Venture and SIS limited.