New Delhi: IIT Kanpur’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) has incubated the Lucknow-based Future Crime Research Foundation, which is working to establish a first-of-its-kind AI-powered big data search engine to aid policing.
As per officials, the search engine intends to make the investigative and policing processes more efficient. They stated that it will combine data from all major stakeholders to build a search engine that will aid in predictive policing, crime mapping, and analysis, in addition to other services.
With the surge in crime, the police and intelligence agencies are having a difficult time tackling it. They face the challenge of forecasting crime and law-and-order concerns, the officials stated.
Nikhil Agarwal, CEO, IIT Kanpur's Artificial Intelligence and Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship (AIIDE) Centre of Excellence said, "Frauds and crime are one of the main social issues. Future Crime Research Foundation (FRCF) is developing methods of predictive policing using Artificial Intelligence. "Now, we can understand crime better and solve them faster".
The FCRF is developing a platform that will link the data of all essential organisations and institutions. They will be able to access comprehensive data that will aid in the investigation with the click of a button.
Shashank Shekhar, the Co-Founder of FCRF said, "We will collect all necessary data from many sources and create a single platform that can execute data analysis utilizing regression models, data mining, and artificial intelligence, as well as providing insights into the crime pattern that is unique to a given region".
He stated that this platform will assist police in doing more advanced analyses, gaining a better understanding of the factors that influence criminal behaviour, and better predicting where and when crimes will occur.
"Police force in India is frequently faced with health and social difficulties as a result of overburdening of work, necessitating the need for better resource allocation. As a result, any technology or policing system that allows for improved resource allocation is highly desirable," Shekhar said.
FCRF has previously developed India's first search engine for nodal officials and police station numbers across the country.
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