Haryana Police is set to institutionalise artificial intelligence (AI) in policing, with an IPS-led AI Task Force driving technology-based investigations, particularly in cybercrime and financial fraud. The task force will be headed by an IPS-rank officer. The initiative comes amid the growing use of technology by criminals and increasing volumes of digital evidence, banking transactions, mobile records and online activity that investigators have to analyse.
Director General of Police (DGP) Ajay Singhal said AI would help police analyse large datasets faster, identify critical leads, and ensure accurate investigations, while retaining human judgement at the core of policing. "We can look at AI not merely as a new technology, but as an important tool for strengthening policing in the future," Singhal said, stressing that AI would augment, not replace, the experience and expertise of police officers. He also said that as criminals are increasingly adopting technology, the police must remain one step ahead by continuously strengthening their technological capabilities.
The proposed task force will identify areas where AI can be deployed, implement solutions in existing police systems and build technological capabilities among personnel. One of the key applications under development is AI-assisted Financial Trail Analysis, aimed at helping cybercrime investigators map suspicious transactions, detect patterns, trace the possible flow of funds, and establish links between accounts and activities.
Superintendent of Police (Cyber) Mayank Gupta said manual examination of huge volumes of financial and digital records was time-consuming. AI-assisted preliminary analysis could significantly reduce the time required to sift through data, allowing investigators to focus on verification, interrogation and other human-led aspects of probes. Gupta added that cybercrime investigations involve large volumes of digital data, banking transactions, mobile records and information related to online activities, and that analysing every record and transaction manually can be challenging for investigating officers.
Haryana Police is also developing an in-house Grievance Management System and a Court Returns Portal using AI-based technologies. These systems are aimed at making the management of complaints and court-related information, data processing and necessary follow-up action more systematic and efficient through the use of technology.
The AI Task Force is expected to explore wider applications of AI in digital evidence analysis, document processing, crime-pattern detection, and data analytics. DGP Singhal said Artificial Intelligence will play an important role in making policing faster, more accurate, and more data-driven, and emphasised that AI will not replace human expertise and experience in policing, but will strengthen them.