India Police Hackathon 2019
By: Purva Huilgol
Tags: Hackathons, India Police Hackathon, Indian Police, Machine Learning, Ai For Good

How often does one get a chance to collaborate with the Indian Government to aid in the progress of the nation? If there exists no partnership between the government and its people, this very institution fails.

Keeping this objective in mind, the Karnataka State Police, co-hosted by RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru and IEEE the knowledge partner, is organizing a national level India Police Hackathon 2019 in public interest. The 36-hour hackathon will be conducted on the 16th and 17th November at RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru. It is open to all and free of any registration fee. Participation is solicited from College Students, IT Industry, Researchers, Police & Govt., Defence and Public Sector.

The objective of the event is to elicit coding solutions from the participants for problem statements like facial recognition, data analytics, developing a unified communication app, a centralized standard beat management solution, and connecting online presence for open-source intelligence and investigation. The winning coding solutions will be the prototypes on which the police will design the technological products to improve police functions. What makes this hackathon stand out is the fact that enthusiasts will have a chance to innovate ideas that would change the face of public service.

To incentivize the public, CASH PRIZES WORTH AROUND 3 LAKHS are up for grabs. The Hackathon also opens opportunities for the participants to experience a permanent engagement with the government.

Problem Statements:

1. Facial Recognition: An app must be developed to capture a photo and search the same on official websites / police database / internet using an optimized facial recognition algorithm

2. MoRTH Data Analysis: The police department is looking for a user-friendly app to share their thoughts, media, information and ideas just like you do on WhatsApp! A data analytical tool must be developed to find the interplay of different causes/factors affecting road accidents in India.

3. Unified Communication App: An app must be developed that will support end to end encrypted communication with audit trail. The police department is looking for a user-friendly app to share their thoughts, media, information and ideas just like you do on WhatsApp!

4. Centralised Standard Beat Management Solution: A beat management tool must be developed to ensure better beat monitoring system, to reduce crime rate in beats based on crime data patterns. It should be able to control, monitor, supervise and strategize surveillance of beats.

5. Connecting Online Presence for OSINT and Investigation: From a given input data, name or photograph, a digital footprint of the person must be established by collating all information available on the web.

This team event (of 3–5 people) will have an online screening round that will send 25 teams to battle it out at RV College of Engineering on the 16th and 17th of November 2019. Online Registration closes by 13th November midnight on the official website.

To find out more about the event and the problem statements, click on http://www.ksp.gov.in/hackathon

Hurry and Register Soon!

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