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First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of members of police force.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Supervise and coordinate the investigation of criminal cases, offering guidance and expertise to investigators, and ensuring that procedures are conducted in accordance with laws and regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Prepare work schedules and assign duties to subordinates.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Direct collection, preparation, and handling of evidence and personal property of prisoners.Mostly human for now
- 04Investigate and resolve personnel problems within organization and charges of misconduct against staff.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Explain police operations to subordinates to assist them in performing their job duties.Mostly human for now
- 06Maintain logs, prepare reports, and direct the preparation, handling, and maintenance of departmental records.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Inform personnel of changes in regulations and policies, implications of new or amended laws, and new techniques of police work.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Train staff in proper police work procedures.Mostly human for now
- 09Discipline staff for violation of department rules and regulations.Mostly human for now
- 10Monitor and evaluate the job performance of subordinates, and authorize promotions and transfers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
33%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 24% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 34% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Direct collection, preparation, and handling of evidence and personal property of prisoners.
- Explain police operations to subordinates to assist them in performing their job duties.
- Train staff in proper police work procedures.