ABHED: An app to assist police in criminal investigation & missing persons’ search?

Thanks to technology, now policers officers can use AI to expedite the criminal investigation.

Gurgaon-based Artificial Intelligence startup, Staqu, has launched first-of-its-kind proprietary criminal registration and search app, ABHED (Artificial Intelligence Based Human Efface Detection).

The ABHED app will enable police forces to opt for mobile phone-based criminal registration, including biometric information. With Staqu’s machine learning prowess, the ABHED app is set to accelerate criminal search, missing person search, crime scene fingerprint matching, and more.

With the app, every Police personnel will have their login password to use the app for both the tasks, registering & search. The access can be controlled at different levels, with the mobile phone number of police personnel. The app also provides OTP based logins for profiling or searching to ensure optimum security.

Optimised for 2G or 3G networks, ABHED is well-equipped to handle thousands of queries per seconds and supports unlimited searches & criminal profiles’ indexing.

Atul Rai, CEO and Co-Founder of Staqu, said, “With the launch of ABHED, we are utilising our AI prowess, especially in machine learning, for enabling police forces to digitalize and automate profiling & search for criminals and missing people.”

With a simple user interface, police officers can automatically profile criminals or missing people, including biometric information like fingerprints, voice & face pictures which can also be integrated with the current CCTNS system.

The app is currently available in Hindi and English and will be extended to other languages as well.

Staqu, founded in 2015, has pioneered bi-directional image understanding, an innovative image-to-image matching system, simplifying image search, automatic description generation and real-time product recommendations. The company has also created VGrep API suite, offering a virtual search engine and a hybrid recommendation engine.