The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is piloting an AI transcription tool that turns body-worn camera footage into a police report.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore \u2014 The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is piloting an AI transcription service that sorts through their bodycam video and drafts police reports on certain calls.<\/p>\n
Corporal David Huey said it is meant to be a timesaver for the deputies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this can save them even 20 minutes, 30 minutes, that\u2019s more time they can spend out in the field doing their job.\u201d Huey said.<\/p>\n
The service is called \u2018Draft One,\u2019 and it transcribes Axon body-worn camera footage, then crafts police reports.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeputies I talked to yesterday said that it took them about 15-20 minutes for a report that would typically take them an hour and a half,\u201d Huey said.<\/p>\n
Right now, a select few deputies are part of a 60-day pilot program with Draft One, where they are using the AI transcription tool for calls like DUII, theft and trespassing.<\/p>\n
Corporal Huey said that in his experience, the program has been very accurate and added that there are safeguards in place to ensure the reports are factual.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to force the deputy to interact with all the different parts of the report to make sure that it is true and accurate, and then there\u2019s a minimum of 20% of the report that the deputy has to adjust or make fixes to,\u201d Huey said.<\/p>\n
As an example, the transcription of the conversation KGW and the corporal had contained a glaring error.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, in this instance, it put in an error purposely that I would have to find, and it says, \u2018The escape plan involved turning the walls into cheese using a mysterious device,\u2019 which obviously had nothing to do with our conversation,\u201d Huey said.<\/p>\n
Huey added that the deputy has to go in and include that human element that AI can\u2019t get from just words.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are feelings about that interaction, like maybe there was tensing of fists or something that the dictation part of it is not going to catch,\u201d Huey said.<\/p>\n
Huey said that all of the data from the body-worn camera transcripts and report drafts are securely stored within the Axon network<\/p>\n
At the end of the 60-day pilot program, the Washington County district attorney and sheriff’s office will determine if it will be implemented long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is piloting an AI transcription tool that turns body-worn camera footage into a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-273452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115307938004847526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}