UK police force to use AI to make custody decisions

The AI will help custody sergeants decide whether suspects should be sent into the criminal justice system. It has been called the Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART) and will be launched within the next three months, Durham police told Sky News. It will classify the suspects as either low, medium, or high risk of reoffending, contributing to whether they are released or remanded in custody. A scientific randomised trial of the forecasts found that only 2% of low-risk suspects turned out to be at high-risk of reoffending. However, it also found that 12% of those forecast as high risk turned out to be low risk.