India, Dec. 30 -- In 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 technology, the system is designed to alert police control rooms even before an emergency PCR call is made. But this is not the force's first brush with artificial intelligence. Long 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, police departments across India have begun deploying AI in far more human ways to solve cases and nab suspects. From restoring faces and digitally removing masks to reviving investigations stalled for decades, AI is proving to be a reliable investigative partner in the hands of trained officers. Here are three cases that demonstrate how the police have made AI a useful investigative ally....