In a bid to find digital solutions to “core policing problems”, Goa Police has organised a 48-hour ‘hackathon’ offering a top reward of ₹25,000 to students or groups who can come up with a “scalable solution” for problems faced by the police.
“We are organising our first ever hackathon to encourage students to use their logical and coding skills to solve core policing problems,” South Goa superintendent of police Abhishek Dhania, said.
The problems include facial recognition, in which students will have to build a face recognition-based solution to establish the identity of the person based on databases of arrested persons, missing persons, tenants and unidentified dead bodies including establishing identity of person based on his/her photograph as well as Identify suspects with sufficient accuracy based on photographs of suspects provided as input.
