3rd eye app to help Uttar Pradesh cops solve cases

The Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police OP Singh launched an application named 'Trinetra' or third eye, which will have data base of five lakh criminals as well as AI, face recognition and a host of other tech features. Officials said with the help of the data base, police can solve the cases easily and faster.

Singh launched the application during the annual 'police week' celebrations in Lucknow. The database has been created after bringing together criminal records of the state police, the prisons department and the GRP that guards the railway network in the state.

"The database will help policeman on ground by deploying techniques like face recognition, text search, biometric records analysis, phonetic search, artificial intelligence and gang analysis to "zero in on the criminal" in a quick and targeted manner," said Singh during the celebration.

"This app has a database of about 5 lakh criminals of the state and it will provide access of crime files and dossiers to my officers and personnel on the ground in a seamless and reliable fashion. This app is aimed at helping them crack a case fast and ensure relief and justice to crime victims," Singh said.

Officials said that a police man at the scene of a crime can use artificial intelligence tools to identify a criminal through their face and photographs, through past FIRs where a person was named as an accused, explore links of a criminal with any gang, scan fingerprints and voice samples and can search the name of a criminal even if it is misspelled. The app, at present, has been made available to senior police officers on their smartphones and will soon be shared with officials at the police station-level, the official said.

Use of AI in policing

• ‘Trinetra’ or third eye will have data base of five lakh criminals as well as AI, face recognition and a host of other tech features
• Officials said that a policeman at the scene of a crime can use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to identify a criminal through their face and photographs.