India, Dec. 31 -- By 2026, Delhi Police plans to install 10,000 artificial intelligence-enabled cameras in the Capital, under the Safe City Project. Equipped with facial recognition and distress-detection technologies, the system is reportedly designed to alert police control rooms to incidents even before an emergency PCR call is made.

But this is not the force's first brush with (Artificial Intelligence) AI. Before the cameras arrive, Delhi Police and their counterparts in other parts of India have already been quietly using algorithms to crack cases that human effort alone could not.

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to predictive policing dashboards or traffic challans. In recent months, the Indian Police has begun deplo...