With the assistance of the AI-powered facial recognition app ‘Trinetra’, Authorities Railway Police (GRP) personnel in Bareilly on Tuesday caught a repeat offender from Shahjahanpur district with greater than two dozen felony circumstances.
Sharing additional particulars, Bareilly junction GRP inspector Ajeet Pratap Singh mentioned a crew intercepted an individual loitering on the railway platform and detained him for questioning, however he didn’t reveal something.
“We, then, considered utilizing the Trinetra app supplied to us on our telephones. We clicked the {photograph} of the suspect to monitor his credentials. The suspect turned out to be a infamous felony with over 25 circumstances of meals poisoning, theft and looting that occurred in shifting trains,” he added.
He mentioned the suspect was recognized as Srikant, a resident of Kapseda village underneath Tilhar police station limits of Shahjahanpur district. He mentioned Srikant’s total felony historical past and modus operandi popped up when his {photograph} was searched in the applying.
It might be famous that ‘Trinetra’, that means the third eye, was launched by then director common of police (DGP) Om Prakash Singh in December 2018. Entry to this app was initially supplied to senior police officers. Later, its entry was prolonged to inspector- and sub-inspector-level officers after UP Particular Process Drive (STF) was handed over the functioning and upgradation works of the app.
STF deputy SP Deepak Kumar Singh mentioned the app has been upgraded with particulars of round 8.5 lakh criminals or common offenders that was collected by inputs from district police, jail division and GRP. He mentioned it contained photos, addresses and felony historical past of every particular person in the database.