Findings from an evaluation of the pilot application of AI for witness statement and report generation

Dr Paul Walley and Dr Helen Glasspoole-Bird have published an evaluation report entitled “An Evaluation of the Pilot Application of Artificial Intelligence to Witness Statement and Report Generation at Hertfordshire Constabulary”.  The work studies the outputs of version 1 of an AI application that takes audio from Rapid Video Response interviews with victims of domestic abuse and converts this into relevant summary documents including MG11 witness statements.

The study found that the readability of AI-generated statements was lower than the average produced by officer-written statements.  AI “hallucinations”, where inaccurate content is generated, did also occur during the first phase of the work.  Version 2 of the AI is being developed, and this should improve the outputs further.  

Read the full report.