AI-assisted surveillance meets the evidence standard question

Alerts are not conclusions

Every operator we spoke to described the same workflow: the system surfaces a candidate event, a trained officer reviews it, and the officer's assessment — not the alert — becomes the record.

That design is deliberate. It keeps accountability with a person and keeps the documentation defensible.

The audit trail becomes the product

Procurement conversations increasingly focus on logging: which model version produced an alert, what footage was retained, who reviewed it and when. Vendors that cannot answer those questions cleanly are struggling in tender processes.

Cost sits in the false positives

Sensitivity settings determine staffing. A system tuned too aggressively generates review workload that no surveillance roster can absorb; tuned too conservatively, it undermines the reason for buying it.