Overview
- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath presided over all sessions of the senior officers’ meet at the DGP headquarters in Lucknow.
- 'YAKSH' was launched as an AI and big-data beat app to map crimes, offenders and sensitive areas with features such as facial recognition, voice search, gang-link analysis and real-time alerts.
- Officials said the forum replaces the traditional Police Week to drive outcome-focused planning under direct leadership oversight.
- Leaders highlighted capacity built since 2017, citing cyber police stations in all 75 districts, 12 forensic labs, a Forensic University and in-state training for over 60,000 constables.
- Presentations detailed the Smart SHO Dashboard, e-FIR and Zero FIR workflows under new criminal codes, cybercrime coordination with I4C and digitised prison monitoring including AI-enabled CCTV.