NSW Police using artificial intelligence to analyse CCTV footage


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According to Microsoft, the force is retiring, re-architecting, or replacing over 200 legacy systems with cloud-based systems. Part of this transformation is changing the way the force analyses CCTV footage. Labelled as the "AI/ML-infused Insights policing platform", the system essentially speeds up the processing of data. In one example, NSW Police collected 14,000 pieces of CCTV as part of a murder and assault investigation and analysed it in a manner faster than it previously could. NSW Police, however, is already using a containerisation strategy to parcel up data that needs to be interpreted rapidly, and sending that to Azure for processing.