PilotEvidence: Medium55/100

Using AI to Write Police Reports — Truleo Field Notes powered by Amazon Bedrock (OKC Police Department, Boulder PD, etc.)

Community Policing Dispatch describes how law enforcement uses AI-generated police reports based on body-camera audio. Named customer organizations include Oklahoma City Police Department and Boulder Police Department. Truleo’s Field Notes is powered by Amazon Bedrock with Bedrock guardrails, generating report drafts from transcribed audio. Officers upload or select an incident category and template, generate an AI draft, review and edit missing details, and sign off before submission.

Published
January 2025

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Speed & agilityReduced police report writing timeCustomer experience & trustImproved report quality and accountabilityCost efficiencyReduced overtime costsEmployee experienceFreed officers for proactive policing
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
Customer
Oklahoma City Police Department, Boulder Police Department
Provider
AWS
Maturity
Pilot

No major issues during rollout after piloting, and chiefs said the system reduced overtime and freed officers for proactive policing

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported

Primary read

Use case focus

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  • 1Generative AI report drafting
  • 2Document automation
  • 3Workflow automation
  • Reduce time officers spend writing accurate incident reports.
  • Improve report quality and accountability while maintaining human-in-the-loop review and safeguards.
  • Truleo’s Field Notes uses Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock guardrails to draft police reports from body-camera audio transcription.
  • Officers review, edit, and sign off on the report before submission; departments use templates, training, and audits against bodycam footage.
  • Sources report substantial reduction in officer report-writing time.
  • Improved quality and accountability were reported.
  • No major issues during rollout after piloting, and chiefs said the system reduced overtime and freed officers for proactive policing.
Architecture

Officers upload body-camera footage; the footage is sent to the cloud for AI transcription and report drafting. Truleo Field Notes uses Amazon Bedrock with Bedrock guardrails to generate a draft report from audio, after which officers review, edit, and sign off before submission to the records system. Departments also use templates, training, and monthly audits against body-camera footage.

Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium55/100Evidence strength
  • Customer explicitly identified
  • Deployment status explicitly supported
  • Independent source available
  • Technical implementation details available
Type: News ArticlePublished: Jan 1, 2025Publisher: COPS OfficeEvidence: SecondaryConfidence: Medium

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