Policing across the world has undergone a critical transformation in last decades. There is little resemblance between the 1970s policing and the current policing. Technology has played a fundamental role in the improvement of policing worldwide. Four decades ago, the police used the telephones to respond to emergencies in the United States. In the last few years, with the advancement in the technology, policing has adopted the use of new technological tools, such as the computer, in-car computing, and mobile phone to ease its operations.
Today, the advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Knowledge Representation, Software-as-a-Service and more, has the potential to transform the Policing ecosystem in fundamental ways. The core of the idea for AI-enabled Policing Stream is to advance the scientific understanding of Intelligent-Led and AI-enabled Policing and to identify novel applications of AI and Data Science (from process automation, to cognitive assistants and crime prediction) in policing.
The Australia Federal Police and Macquarie University signed a Memorandum of Understanding and seek to enhance relations between them by developing research and other programs and activities.
Research Grants:
"A compact and portable electrochemical gas sensor array to spot explosives"; Australian Academy of Science, Macquarie University and University of Technology Sydney, 2019-2021