As some patrol officers in the Twin Cities are starting to use artificial intelligence for composing their reports, the St. Paul Police Department isn’t yet taking the leap to the cutting-edge Axon Draft One.

The department recently implemented its first policy on the use of AI. St. Paul police major crime investigators have already been using AI technology to transcribe interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects.

The policy came about because “as a department, we realized that technology is rapidly advancing, and we need to go with the times,” said St. Paul Police Cmdr. Michele Giampolo, who’s in charge of the technology unit. “We needed to have a policy in place to safeguard … private data.”

Erin Hayes, a St. Paul Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission member, said th

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