AI Meets Policing: Agra Police, IIT Kanpur Build ECOP To Streamline Public Access To UP Police Documents

Agra Police have developed Uttar Pradesh’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform to deliver police documents and circulars directly to citizens, reported The Times Of India.

Developed in collaboration with IIT Kanpur, the software, dubbed ECOP, uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology to make official information easily accessible.

The development team included DCP (city) Sonam Kumar, Mayank Pathak (former ASP U/T in Agra), along with IIT Kanpur students Udbhav Agarwal, Trijal Srivastava, Vedant Neekhra (all from the electrical engineering department), and Gaurav Kumar Rampuria from the statistics and data science department.

Explaining the system’s operation, DCP Kumar was quoted as saying by ToI, "ECOP, which stands for Efficiency Core 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 further 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."

Praising the initiative, Agra Police Commissioner Deepak Kumar said that such efforts aim to ensure a developed India through smart policing.

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