Overview
- Under the state’s ‘Gangstran Te Vaar’ drive, Punjab Police rolled out the Punjab Artificial Intelligence System to counter organised crime.
- The platform’s voice recognition system holds a Voice Bank of more than 84,000 samples that police say can match callers within minutes to tackle extortion threats.
- PAIS also houses a criminal database of roughly 390,000 offenders with gang affiliations and a phonetic search that finds suspects listed under variant spellings.
- Investigators use a Gang Tree Search to map syndicate hierarchies and link local actors to overseas handlers in countries such as Canada, the United States, and Italy, with officials estimating about 60 gangsters operate from abroad using encrypted apps and virtual numbers.
- AGTF Fugitive Tracking Cells are drawing on PAIS intelligence to work with Interpol on identifying and extraditing fugitives, and police credit these tools with foiling planned targeted killings.