UP: STF bags FICCI award for using artificial intelligence platform

LUCKNOW: UP STF has bagged the FICCI Smart Policing Award, 2022 for "exemplary work" done using an artificial intelligence platform JARVIS (for voice identification of criminals). ADG, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar said that UP is the first state to use the software and artificial intelligence for monitoring the voice of criminals.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), not even a single incident of jailbreak was reported from Uttar Pradesh jails in 2021. According to the records, five cases of jailbreak were reported from Maharashtra while six from Rajasthan in 2021.
Uttar Pradesh director general of prisons, Anand Kumar, said that the state’s jails are working in accordance with law and are also working as reformatory centres in accordance with the Supreme Court guidelines. Kumar also said that the state government has strengthened the entire structure of the jails by installing CCTVs, and jammers.
“Criminals and mafias have been running a network of crime right from the prisons, with unauthorised access to mobile phones, knives, guns, amongst other materials. However, we have introduced a software-JARVIS to ensure that the law enforcement authorities are notified immediately as soon as something unlawful is detected,” said Kumar.
Kumar also said that in a bid to strengthen security inside jails of Uttar Pradesh, the prison department also installed a video wall at the headquarters in Lucknow which gives live stream of CCTV cameras from all the 72 jails in the state, which has improved the overall services.
Citing NCRB, Kumar also said that under the skill development programme of the jail category UP has performed the best in the country.
“We have given training to at least 18% of the total inmates under skill development of farming, sewing, and handlooms, which has made us perform better than inmates of Rajasthan with 11.8%,” said Kumar.
The DG also said that in the category of computer training with 1,162 inmates being trained, UP topped in the category of giving education with 4,101 inmates. In the category of senior citizen education, the state ranks second. The state ranked fourth in the category of products manufactured by jail inmates across the country.
“We have also provided free legal aid to 6,717 under trials as per SC rules,” said the DG