Abu Dhabi launches new machine learning program to follow criminal cases – News

In 2019, judges began using artificial intelligence systems to decide when and for how long criminals should go to jail

Authorities have announced that a new smart program has been developed to use machine learning to follow up and expedite cases in the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court.

The Abu Dhabi Judiciary Department (ADJD) said on Monday that the initiative is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at improving the completion rate and speed of sentencing in criminal cases. They are also working to update the program to include electronic sentencing for crimes that ended in mediation or waiver, as well as crimes that have passed the statute of limitations.

Counsellor Youssef Saeed Al-Abri, Deputy Minister of Justice of Abu Dhabi, said the use of AI technology to follow up on criminal courts is a paradigm shift in the capital’s judicial system, in line with the leaders’ vision to develop smart and innovative courts of the future , providing world-class service.

Mansour Al Marzouqi, President and Counselor of the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court, explained that the current application of machine learning in criminal courts is to follow up all the work of the judiciary immediately, providing accurate statistics of what has been done. Cases, ongoing cases, follow-up of detainees in pending cases, completion rates and deferred cases are clear indications of ensuring urgent measures are taken to expedite the processing of cases.

“The smart program enhanced by artificial intelligence technology also allows the sentence to be described in electronic form, in presence or absence, while allowing for the transmission of a large amount of data to the draft sentence, such as the name of the accused, the charging article, and in the criminal court case description of the accused’s allegations,” he added.

Al Marzouqi noted that efforts are being made to update the system to accommodate many procedures in criminal cases, including the electronic issuance of judgments in crimes that have ended in mediation or waiver, as long as waiver or mediation is proven in many cases, including battery, verbal abuse and sabotage, and crimes that have expired.

The Abu Dhabi Judiciary reported in 2019 that judges began using artificial intelligence systems to decide when and how long criminals should go to jail.

Khawla Salem Al Qubaisi, IT director at ADJD, told Khaleej Times earlier that the department introduced artificial intelligence systems in the courts to assess risks and help judges in sentencing.

“To create the AI ​​system, our team uses computers to analyze data from different court cases. We use historical data through machine learning algorithms,” she said.

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