CHANDIGARH, May 3 -- The Punjab Police are now equipped with a voice recognition system under the Punjab Artificial Intelligence System (PAIS) to target gangs operating from abroad that are misguiding youth to carry out illegal activities in the state.

It has an AI-powered voice recognition system, which houses a "voice bank" of over 84,000 samples of known criminals and suspects.

Beyond voice identification, PAIS integrates a robust criminal database of over 3,90,000 offenders, complete with gang affiliations and phonetic search capabilities. Its advanced gang tree search tool allows investigators to visualise the hierarchy of organised crime networks, linking street-level crimes to their international masterminds.

"For years, foreign...