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Time of India
5 days ago
- Time of India
Agra police develop state's first AI platform to provide UP police documents to public
Agra: In a bid to strengthen law and order management and ensure timely dissemination of information, the Agra police have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based software to promptly deliver UP police documents and circulars to citizens, making it the first such platform of its kind in the state. According to a statement by Agra police, the software, named ECOP, is based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology and was developed in collaboration with IIT Kanpur. The team included – DCP (city) Sonam Kumar, Mayank Pathak (who served as ASP U/T in Agra) and IIT Kanpur students Udbhav Agarwal, Trijal Srivastava, Vedant Neekhra (all from electrical engineering department) and Gaurav Kumar Rampuria from statistics and data science department. E xplaining the functioning of the new system, DCP Kumar said, "ECOP, which stands for Efficiency Cell for Optimising Policing, operates much like AI tools such as ChatGPT and Deepseek. It can access and analyse extensive data and has been trained specifically on publicly available documents of the UP police. These documents were digitised using optical character recognition (OCR) and used to train the AI model. " He added, "When users pose questions, the AI fetches precise information from relevant UP police circulars and documents, enabling citizens to access verified guidelines and instructions. Besides benefiting the public, the software will also assist police personnel with queries related to procedures, such as handling criminal cases in police stations." Commending the initiative, Agra police commissioner Deepak Kumar said, "Such efforts aim to ensure a developed India through smart policing."
Time of India
06-05-2025
- Time of India
Star-crossed teacher, minor student ‘die by suicide' in hotel
Agra: A 24-year-old teacher of a coaching centre and his Class 8 student were found dead in a hotel room in Aligarh, in what police believe to be a case of suicide by poisoning, officials said on superintendent of police (ASP) Mayank Pathak said, "Chandrabhan (only his first name is available) was a BTech graduate from Mathura. He was employed at a coaching centre in Aligarh's Sarsol area, where the girl was enrolled as a student. The two had checked into a hotel near Khereshwar Square on Monday morning using false identities. Their bodies were discovered later in the night when a friend arrived to meet them."The ASP said, "Preliminary investigation suggests that opposition by families to their relationship may have prompted them to take the extreme step. Empty poison pouches were recovered from their pockets."A forensic team collected evidence from the hotel room and the bodies were sent for postmortem examination. Police said legal proceedings are underway and further action will be taken once a formal complaint is received.
