OPTIMISATION OF THE PATROL ACTIVITY OF THE POLICE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Partner: THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, THE POLICE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

field: security

IT4Innovations has been actively involved in the practical application of the Maps of the Future II project, and the resulting activities focused on the optimisation of patrol activity of the Police of the Czech Republic in the field.

Within the framework of this task, an expert team dealt with experiments in the field of predicting the exact locations of risk areas in terms of the occurrence of criminal behaviour by searching for correlations over large, structured datasets describing not only the spatiotemporal aspects of criminal activity on the territory of the Czech Republic but also the geographical and meteorological specifics of these locations.

Thanks to this, models designed to predict crime and socio-pathogenic phenomena throughout the Czech Republic were successfully developed and tested within the IT4I technical infrastructure. The possibility of running memory and computationally demanding tasks in parallel with the possibility of using dedicated graphics cards was essential, allowing the time of individual experiments to be reduced from days to hours.

Innovative technologies using AI elements and the advantages of machine learning can thus be expanded from a few pilot areas to all regions of our country in the future.

Thanks to the developed prediction function it was possible to capture the specifics of given micro-locations using macroscopic data available on a national scale. Using this technology, it will be possible to automate and optimise the planning of patrol activity of the Police of the Czech Republic. In the future, the performance of police officers in the field can thus be based on a very detailed and fast analysis of data taking place in the background.