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Will AI replace Police Identification and Records Officers?

Some of your tasks will be automated. People who use AI will have the edge.

Task exposure to today's AI

32/100

Moderate exposure

This is the occupation's typical task mix. Your own score can be up to 30 points higher or lower depending on how you work: routine share, people contact, judgment and how much you already use AI.

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Will AI replace Police Identification and Records Officers?

Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 32% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: maintain records of evidence and write and review reports. The parts that stay human include: Analyze and process evidence at crime scenes, during autopsies, or in the laboratory, wearing protective equipment and using powders and chemicals.; Photograph crime or accident scenes for evidence records.; Maintain records of evidence and write and review reports..

People who learn to use AI for the automatable parts keep the edge. The 3-phase plan below shows where to start.

Which tasks AI can take on

The largest tasks in this occupation, their share of the working week, and how much of each today's AI tools can do.

TaskAutomatable
Maintain records of evidence and write and review reports. 62%
Package, store and retrieve evidence. 35%
Photograph crime or accident scenes for evidence records. 30%
Analyze and process evidence at crime scenes, during autopsies, or in the laboratory, wearing protective equipment and using powders and chemicals. 12%
Look for trace evidence, such as fingerprints, hairs, fibers, or shoe impressions, using alternative light sources when necessary. 12%
Dust selected areas of crime scene and lift latent fingerprints, adhering to proper preservation procedures. 10%

+ 9 more tasks (32% of the week) in the full test.

Your human edge

  • Analyze and process evidence at crime scenes, during autopsies, or in the laboratory, wearing protective equipment and using powders and chemicals.
  • Photograph crime or accident scenes for evidence records.
  • Maintain records of evidence and write and review reports.

AI tools to try

ChatGPT / Claude for reports and summariesVideo analytics and alerting systemsTranscription tools

Related roles

A 3-phase AI learning plan

Phase 1

Faster reports

  • Incident reports drafted from your notes with AI, checked by you.
  • Summaries of long documents and procedures.
  • Follow rules on personal and sensitive data.

Project

Draft 10 crime-scene processing reports from your field notes with AI using anonymised placeholders, review each yourself, and log minutes saved per report versus your usual time.

Phase 2

Working with AI systems

  • How video analytics and alerting systems work, and where they fail.
  • False alarms and bias: when to trust and when to check.
  • Clear handover between system alerts and human decisions.

Project

Run 50 test images or clips through an AI fingerprint-matching or video analytics tool, record false positives and misses, and write a one-page guide on when examiners must verify manually.

Phase 3

Specialise

  • Training in security technology or analysis.
  • Procedures that combine AI tools with human judgment.
  • Mentor newer colleagues.

Project

Write and pilot a 5-step evidence-photography and latent-print workflow combining AI enhancement with human verification, then train two newer colleagues and test their accuracy before and after.
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