Smart Policing Hackathon: AI-driven crime investigation
December 15th, 2020From 9–11 December 2020, the Belgian Federal Police, VIAS and EY organised the first Smart Policing Hackathon. Arinti was selected as the winner of the Smart Investigation challenge with Tafuta, our Cognitive Search & Graph Analytics solution. The challenge: find innovative investigation techniques to improve the fight against serious and organised crime, specifically around knowledge discovery and connecting information across siloed data.
The problem
Huge amounts of information created daily are hardly used effectively. Entities like persons, vehicles, phone numbers, and known affiliations must be manually tagged in reports — extremely time-consuming. Analysts working on connections are scarce, and there's no proactive information sharing or concept-aware search. Data is siloed and its potential largely unexplored.
Tafuta for law enforcement
We prototyped a Police version of Tafuta that understands documents, interprets text, and turns raw information into searchable content. It recognises entities automatically and understands concept variations. We added speech-to-text for wire tap transcription, object detection for annotating images, and proactive alerts when new information appears about tracked entities. Graph analytics builds visual representations of how entities are connected — letting investigators literally see how the dots connect. The jury included the Commissioner General of the Federal Police and other high-level experts.
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