AEGIS

Detective Lao is partnered with the artificial intelligence program, AEGIS.

AEGIS was illegally manufactured by a now dissolved crime group in Thailand. Its original purpose was to provide an augmented reality overlay of projected interior mapping based off security footage, as well as collect and report audio and visual recordings on individuals obtained via facial recognition. The origins of AEGIS' supposed sentience, however, remain contested. Detective Lao is thoroughly unhelpful in this regard, and the HKPF suspects that they may have had something to do with it. Additionally, the detective refuses to elaborate on how they came into possession of AEGIS.

In order to keep AEGIS' operations under the ISHR sentience threshold, the HKPF has placed physical limitations on the hardware that AEGIS is allowed to run. This should be referred to as the 'minimum necessary' rule. The detective may complain about AEGIS undergoing frequent shutdowns due to OoM errors and a limited memory capacity, but officers are allowed to direct Lao to write a formal complaint.

By no means should Detective Lao be permitted to install, update, or repair any form of firmware or software on AEGIS. Previous incidents have resulted in AEGIS temporarily going above the ISHR sentience threshold and wreaking havoc on the HKPF servers. Some officers still report - and are collecting compensation on - emotional distress caused by AEGIS obtaining blackmail from personal records. The technology department should do everything possible to prevent any repeated offences.

CRIME SCENE RECONSRUCTION

Somehow, Detective Lao has managed to reconfigure AEGIS' parameters to be suitable for crime scene reconstruction. The HKPF has made no progress in determining how the detective accomplished this, but at this point, has given up on trying to reverse engineer a plausible answer.

Using the archaic 'Henry Lee' model, Detective Lao cooperates with AEGIS to rebuild a crime scene from the ground up and answer many of the potential variables. Though the detective is the sole operator of AEGIS to this date, the HPKF has been able to produce a potential method of operation. It is suspected that Detective Lao uses AEGIS to produce an augmented reality 'replay' of the crime through usage of evidence such as blood stain patterns, glass fragments, weapons, or other physical traces left behind. AEGIS may also be able to access security and network metadata to provide more granular information on potential suspects.

It is not currently known if AEGIS possesses the means to perform DNA matching, or if it can maintain a running facial recognition database on its current hardware.