Key AI use cases include:

  • Digital forensics: several tools and techniques for decryption, data recovery and analysis have been developed with AI components. These tools can recover deleted files, access data from damaged devices, restore fragmented pieces of information into coherent formats and investigate the digital footprint of criminals.
  • Surveillance systems: technologies such as image classification, computer vision and biometrics including automated facial and voice recognition, or fingerprints.
  • Data analytics employing statistical methods to extract insights from vast datasets, for instance on crime records, events and environmental factors identified in criminological insights and also unstructured data originating from open-source intelligence and social media intelligence sources.
  • Natural language processing: performing tasks through processing textual data, such as text classification and clustering, text summarisation and machine translation, such as transcribing witness statements, analysing legal documents or extracting key information from case files.