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AI technology is rapidly expanding into law enforcement and public safety fields. Police officers at the Ulsan Provincial Police Agency have developed a series of systems utilizing AI to assist in searching for missing persons, preventing new types of fraud, and analyzing public safety intelligence. They are directly addressing operational challenges in the field using AI technology.

UBC reporter Park Jae-kwon has the report.

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On the screen map, police officers are in the middle of searching for a missing person.

It is an app developed by the Ulsan police to allow real-time tracking of the locations of police officers deployed in the field on a map.

When used alongside drones, it helps grasp the search situation at a glance, enabling appropriate personnel deployment and ensuring the safety of search teams.

[Bae Yong-hyun / Security and Guard Division, Ulsan Provincial Police Agency: In emergency situations, we can check the locations of workers at a glance, enabling a swift response. In particular, it enhances search efficiency in dangerous areas such as mountainous terrain and ensures the safety of personnel.]

"Scam Signal" has also been developed to quickly notify citizens via smartphone alerts about the latest fraud methods to prevent damage.

By accessing the app via a QR code, users can check everything from actual scam cases to a traffic light system that indicates scam risk levels using colors.

When the scam risk traffic light turns red, it indicates a danger level. Yellow signifies a caution level, and finally, green indicates a normal state.

After establishing an AI capability-enhancement plan early this year, the Ulsan police have been strengthening employees' competencies through special lectures and hands-on training.

Since then, cases of integrating AI into actual operations have been on the rise.

The "AI Public Safety Radar," which condenses the massive amount of security news pouring in daily to help prompt situation assessments, and the "AI Integrity Assistant," which consolidates integrity-related laws and interpretations in one place, have also been developed.

[Kim Min-ki / Information Analysis Division, Ulsan Provincial Police Agency: I built this system while pondering how to apply AI to police work in everyday life. By easily checking security-related news information that is automatically generated every day, we are analyzing how the police can respond proactively.]

What particularly draws attention is that frontline officers without IT majors have solved limitations they typically faced in the field using AI.

The Ulsan police plan to continuously discover tasks where AI can be utilized to enhance the efficiency of field policing and administrative operations.

(Video by: Cho Hyun-woo, UBC)

Park Jae-kwon, UBC