2.23 Herts AI test and learn

Academic team: Dr Paul Walley (C&C/CPRL, OU), Dr Helen Glasspoole-Bird (CPRL, OU)
Policing partners: Hertfordshire Constabulary
Status: Complete

Hertfordshire Constabulary have been working with a private to develop a new AI tool “ADA”. This listens to conversations between police and victims/witnesses, recorded on Rapid video response equipment and transcribes this information into witness statements and other police reports. This work conducts an early review of the use of AI in the statement taking process to understand if productivity gains in terms of time savings can be made alongside improved statement quality and consistency. The work involves interviews with stakeholders, linguistic comparison of human and AI-generated reports and an assessment of the impact on workload. A preliminary report is due at the end of March 2025. Other papers and reports will follow as the functionality and application of the AI is improved and widened.

Outputs

TitleOutputs typeLead academicYear
An evaluation of the pilot application of Artificial Intelligence to witness statement and report generation at Hertfordshire ConstabularyFinal reportWalley, P2025

News

Welcome Clifford as our new policing professor

Our new Professor of Policing and Research, whose role includes becoming Academic Director of our Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL), is Clifford Stott MBE.


As the Centre’s lead, a significant part of his role will be working with academics across and beyond the Faculty, as well as CPRL’s police force partners, to generate research and learning relevant to theory, policy and practice.

2nd March 2026