Bangkok police to pilot AI surveillance system

[snoop1130]

Bangkok police to pilot AI surveillance system

By Jessada Chantharak
The Nation

 

 

Bangkok police have joined with the private sector to pilot a public surveillance system powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

 

The AI System for Surveillance and Criminal Analysis in Public will be trialled in the east Bangkok district of Huai Kwang, Metropolitan Police Division 1 commander Maj-General Senit Samrarnsamruajkit said on Thursday.

 

Welcoming the new technology as part of efforts to maintain law and order, Senit said that if the trial proved successful in meeting police objectives and benefiting the public, he would propose extending the AI surveillance to other police jurisdictions in the capital.

 

The senior officer was speaking at a press conference following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on implementing the pilot project. Alongside him were Huai Kwang Superintendent Pol Col Phuris Jintranan, Intersteps Co Ltd executive Baralee Chutima and head of the Bangkok Committee Overseeing Police Administration Pirawat Suraset. 

 

Phuris explained his precinct had for the past four months been working with Intersteps to link the AI system to police radio. “The system is very effective in detecting targets and helpful in checking suspects' photos against those in arrest warrants," he said.

 

The Huai Kwang superintendent said his jurisdiction included the Ratchadapisek Road area where the Chinese Embassy is reportedly keen to promote development of a second Chinatown. The AI surveillance system should boost crime detection, response and investigation in the area once it had become more stable with a larger database, Phuris added.

 

Intersteps executive Baralee said the new AI surveillance was a key foundation for the development of a “smart city”, and would increase public safety as well as boost confidence among business operators and investors in the area. 

 

The pilot project will link with security cameras at crime hotspots under Huai Kwang police jurisdiction. Its facial recognition function will compare faces against photos in a database of arrest warrants, while its behaviour analysis aims to prevent crimes such as bag-snatching or brawling, or even help locate missing children or senior citizens, said Baralee. The equipment had already undergone a trial run over the past four months, but after the MoU signing Intersteps would begin training police officers in its various uses. The system would become more effective over time as it was exposed to real-life crime scenarios and investigation, she said, expressing hope that it would ease police workloads and help prevent crime.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30373672

 

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[grantbkk]

I see the acronym is appropriate  ASS CAP.  How much?  Why don't we see 100's or 1,000's of crime busting stories from the much ballyhooed surveillance system that is in place?

 

[mok199]

Having failed miserably at the old technology....Actually enforcing laws..

[faraday]

Can this wizardry be used with the 'ingenious tray'?

[sammieuk1]

AI Follow the money. AI how much is in that envelope first????

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Its facial recognition function will compare faces against photos in a database of arrest warrants, while its behaviour analysis aims to prevent crimes such as bag-snatching or brawling, or even help locate missing children or senior citizens, said Baralee.

I wonder if this AI system has any link to the Chinese company Leon who run surveillance and monitoring in China and particularly targetting the Uyghurs in North-west China. The facial recognition software follows their every move.

 

Edited July 25, 2019 by bluesofa

[Matzzon]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The pilot project will link with security cameras at crime hotspots under Huai Kwang police jurisdiction. Its facial recognition function will compare faces against photos in a database of arrest warrants, while its behaviour analysis aims to prevent crimes such as bag-snatching or brawling, or even help locate missing children or senior citizens, said Baralee.

And where in all this is the revolutionary factor? It´s not new, and has been on the market for a bunch of years in different versions.

Edited July 25, 2019 by Matzzon

[swissie]

Greetings from Mainland China.

Predicably, the Thai TM30 system will not do if one can have something "better". 

[Phuketshrew]

In the absence of any real intelligence they have decided to adopt artificial intelligence?

Edited July 25, 2019 by Phuketshrew

[Date Masamune]

BKK soon to look like Tokyo in January.
Half the population in surgical masks.

[timendres]

I have always feared China exporting it's authoritarian tech:

 

[Matzzon]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

the MoU signing Intersteps would begin training police officers in its various uses. The system would become more effective over time as it was exposed to real-life crime scenarios and investigation, she said, expressing hope that it would ease police workloads and help prevent crime.

I can both see and hear that Intersteps is going to make a load of money on this. Good work, lads!

[faraday]

We know that George Orwell warned us; we didn't do much about it.

 

What are we being warned about now, that will enslave completely in a few years...?

[Justgrazing]

1 hour ago, grantbkk said:

I see the acronym is appropriate  ASS CAP.  How much?  Why don't we see 100's or 1,000's of crime busting stories from the much ballyhooed surveillance system that is in place?

 

Hahahaha yea nice one .. You can just picture them saying to someone they've picked up " congratulations you've just been ASS CAP'ed .. 

[timendres]

24 minutes ago, faraday said:

We know that George Orwell warned us; we didn't do much about it.

 

What are we being warned about now, that will enslave completely in a few years...?

The people are too busy, buried in their phones, to notice that they are building their own cages.

[bluesofa]

55 minutes ago, timendres said:

I have always feared China exporting it's authoritarian tech:

 

In a similar vein:  Exposure S09E03 Undercover Inside Chinas Digital Gulag 

I can't see it on youtube, but it's on tpb.

[NCC1701A]

AI Voice: "Alert! The white American male I tracked from Hua Hin to Pattaya is leaving Soi 6 with three girls."

Cops: "Again? That's four night in a row!"

AI Voice: "Facial recognition confirmed. Handsome man."

 

Edited July 25, 2019 by NCC1701A

[NCC1701A]

https://www.survivopedia.com/6-ways-to-defeat-facial-recognition/

[onera1961]

Better than opening up brothels (aka bars) through out the country and pimps (bar managers) pimping young girls to creepy old sexpats for marriage. This model of economic development has not produced a better result in the last 50-year. It just perpetuates the system that benefits sexpats.

Edited July 25, 2019 by onera1961

[legend49]

11 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I wonder if this AI system has any link to the Chinese company Leon who run surveillance and monitoring in China and particularly targetting the Uyghurs in North-west China. The facial recognition software follows their every move.

 

Saw that program very frightening as the Chinese have got it working correctly. Trial in EU are a dismal response, so i expect the same here.

[rwill]

More than likely to track 'threats to the kingdom'.  I.E. those that disagree with those in power.

[lesmac]

It would have to be artificial 

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

In the absence of any real intelligence they have decided to adopt artificial intelligence?

But you still only get out something dependent on the input ?

[klauskunkel]

here is a flow chart:

street camera records an incident - AI evaluates - AI runs facial recognition - AI checks databases for contact info of suspect - AI contacts suspect via SMS and invites him to go to a police station at his convenience - suspect arrives at station and interrupts officer's lunch

[ChesneyHawkes]

I feel so bad for being cynical from having lived here for many years. My first thought in the land of manual labour whilst reading the headline was that they’d hired a Japanese person called Ai to sit and watch the cameras.

[Srikcir]

14 hours ago, Matzzon said:

where in all this is the revolutionary factor?

Police Unlock AI's Potential to Monitor, Surveil and Solve Crimes | WSJ (June 4, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_fyQCeBaeM

 

 

[Srikcir]

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

here is a flow chart:

street camera records an incident - AI evaluates - AI runs facial recognition - AI checks databases for contact info of suspect - AI contacts suspect via SMS and invites him to go to a police station at his convenience - suspect arrives at station and interrupts officer's lunch

Flow chart for Bangkok:

street camera missing, disconnected, broken or faulty due to lack of maintenance.

AI evaluation fails to perform.

[Srikcir]

15 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I wonder if this AI system has any link to the Chinese company Leon

Intersteps Company Ltd. does seem to have some Chinese connections through its technicians.

• Intersteps Company Limited is a business consulting company focusing on technology solutions established since 2009.  We’re serving many clients majoring in different markets such as retails, real estate, consumer products, telecom and government sectors. Together with our professional team and technology partners from China, Hong Kong, USA, and some other countries  https://th.jobsdb.com/th/jobs/companies/intersteps-co-ltd?JSSRC=SRLSC

I can find little else on the internet but this Intersteps Co.,Ltd. may also be related to the same aforementioned company:

• The Intersteps Company was established in 2005 to take advantage of the Newly emergent multimedia opportunities observed by the principals in The Asian marketplace.
• Currently the team has successfully applied their expertise to Strategic multimedia re-branding and overall marketing campaign for three Major Thailand conglomerates of mass retail outlets, government education Programs and a major convergence provider of satellite, cable, landline and cell phone services.
• The team draws on an extensive network of seasoned professionals within Thailand and the United States  https://www.gmdu.net/corp-129226.html

The company reads more like a Thailand-based communications-media body shop than a dedicated and experienced AI tech company. From that perspective the Bangkok Committee Overseeing Police Administration has potential for high risk of an expensive failure versus using foreign companies with proven AI surveillance experience.

I'd like to know how Intersteps was selected. BMA itself has had since 2014 a couple of lawsuits filed against it for contract collusion.

 

[gunderhill]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

as part of efforts to maintain law and order,

No it isnt its watching everything you do , its  big  brother and its  going to get worse and worse until its  all too  late, people need to tell them right now to sod  off...worldwide.

[gunderhill]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

hope that it would ease police workloads

They couldnt  do  less if they tried!