Policía Nacional de Colombia

IAPol — Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada al Servicio de Policía — produces weekly forecasts of where, when and what type of crime is expected, expressed as heat maps over a 200 by 200 metre grid with intensity values from 0 to 255, broken down by the three daily shifts, with crime type assigned by a random forest classifier. It draws on police databases including SIEDCO (crime statistics, arrests, seizures, recovered vehicles), RNMC (police code infractions) and the 123 emergency call system, and is available to police stations nationwide, where it is used to distribute personnel and direct operations. Cerosetenta, the Universidad de los Andes investigative outlet, reports it was originally built as XCrime by High Tech Software S.A.S. under a contract signed in September 2020 worth about 5 billion Colombian pesos, was renamed IAPol in mid-2025, became operational in August 2025, and has a maintenance contract running to 30 November 2026. El Espectador, reporting from the police General Directorate, describes it as generating predictive heat maps from 15 police databases with real-time patrol routing, and names Colonel Óscar Andrés Bernhard Rojas as the officer responsible; that report gives a current budget allocation of 5.8 billion pesos and an earlier start in 2019 — the 2019, 2020 and 2025 dates are not reconciled by anything read here, which is why the 'since' field carries only the year operation is reported to have begun. The Universidad de los Andes public algorithm registry lists IAPol as in operation, processing personal data, with 2026 as the operational year. Criticism is part of the record: analysts at Quantil, quoted by Cerosetenta, conclude that the location and timing outputs are descriptive statistics over historical crime data rather than machine learning, and the police say no performance metrics exist because police action itself changes the outcome. legalBasis and oversight are empty: Cerosetenta reports that Colombia has no specific regulation of police AI, that a bill was introduced in May 2025 with uncertain prospects, and that no data is published on operations conducted using the system. Sources are in Spanish.