Kagawa and Kanagawa Police Deploy AI for Investigation and Crime Prediction

Kagawa and Kanagawa prefectural police have put AI into active use for tasks such as extracting people from security-camera footage and forecasting where crimes will occur, embedding the technology in everyday investigation and crime-prevention work. The moves mark a concrete shift by Japanese police toward a "problem-solving" style of policing in partnership with private firms and universities, as reported by the Asahi Shimbun in a series on the current state of AI use by Japanese police.