Singapore, Singapore (national)
Singapore Police Force
AI screening of seized devices for obscene material
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-50B97CC2
- Body
- Singapore Police Force
- Country
- Singapore
- Area
- Singapore (national)
- Technology
- AI screening of seized devices for obscene material
- Supplier
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- Not known
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Not stated in the source
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-50B97CC2
Notes
Established by a written parliamentary reply from the Ministry of Home Affairs, dated 3 October 2023, answering a question from Mr Desmond Choo on how the police have incorporated artificial intelligence into enforcement work. The page was read twice in this run and gave the same sentence both times: 'Investigators use an AI programme to sieve out possible obscene materials from seized devices.'
The programme is not named, no vendor is identified, and no accuracy or volume figures are given. The record asserts only what the reply asserts: that such a programme is in investigative use.
'techSlug' is omitted rather than linked to csam-detection-classification. The reply says 'obscene materials', which is broader than child sexual abuse material, and one reading of the page added a child abuse framing that the verbatim sentence does not support. Linking the two would import a claim the source does not make.
'since' is omitted because the reply establishes the programme was in use by October 2023 but not when it began. Note for future cycles: this record rests on a statement now nearly three years old. Nothing found in this run contradicts it, but it should be re-checked against a more recent parliamentary reply or force publication before its verified date is advanced.
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