How AI Profiling is Replacing Manual Dossier Management in Indian Police Investigations

In most Indian police stations, the records room is one of the most important rooms in the building, and one of the least navigable.

Physical dossiers on habitual offenders. Interrogation reports filed in folders by year, by district, sometimes by the personal system of whoever happened to be the most organised officer on duty the week they were filed. FIRs that reference individuals who appear under different spellings across three different files. Case records that were never cross-referenced because nobody had the time and because the system, if it can be called that, was never designed for cross-referencing.