The Chula Vista Police Department will become the first police agency in San Diego County to incorporate artificial intelligence into officers’ written police reports and encounters with the public.

The City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to begin using a suite of AI policing tools in officers’ body-worn cameras that can produce real-time transcriptions of police encounters and generate near-instantaneous police reports while officers are still at crime scenes.

Roxana Kennedy, Chula Vista’s police chief, said the city’s four-year, $1 million contract with the police technology company Axon would be “a huge time-saver for our officers, allowing them to be out in the community” instead of at a desk filling out paperwork.

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