Artificial intelligence could be used to write victim statements and produce prosecution case files by 2026, the College of Policing boss has said.
Technological innovations such as AI need to be ‘injected like heroin into the bloodstream of policing,’ Andy Marsh told a meeting of senior officers.
Technology that could save officers thousands of hours by automating case files is already being trialled, the College chief executive told the Police Superintendents’ Association conference.
‘Case files: possibly the most bureaucratic, complex and troublesome work that your teams are responsible for, riddled with error and disappointment,’ he said.
Technological innovations such as AI need to be ‘injected like heroin into the bloodstream of policing,’ Andy Marsh told a meeting of senior officers
Artificial intelligence could be used to write victim statements and produce prosecution case files by 2026, the College of Policing boss has said
Technology that could save officers thousands of hours by automating case files is already being trialled, the College chief executive told the Police Superintendents’ Association conference
‘The technology currently exists, I’ve seen it, it’s under trial to effectively automate the whole thing.
‘So through an interaction, AI could write a statement, do a risk assessment, do a crime report, do a handover network which then needs to be signed off by humans who check it’s correct.
‘It can absorb all the digital and written data and create a prosecution file.’
Mr Marsh, who began his career in policing as a constable in Avon and Somerset in 1987, said he would like the lengthy process of compiling prosecution files to become a ‘problem of the past’ in just two years.
‘But we won’t achieve this pace of change, we won’t exploit this sense of speed unless we’ve got a centre that is more capably resourced to get on with the job,’ he told the conference in Kenilworth.
‘These innovations are groundbreaking; they’re going to change the world, and they need to be injected like heroin into the bloodstream of policing much more quickly than we have done in the past.’
Mr Marsh’s comments come after technology secretary Peter Kyle said that using AI to mark school exams and homework would lighten teachers’ workloads and free up time to ‘deliver creative and inspiring lessons’.
